Powder Keg in Gaza

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/powder-keg-in-gaza The violent blows exchanged between Israel and armed Islamist groups in Gaza over the past few weeks mark a dangerous shift. The pattern of occasional clashes established after Israel's 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead has...

PBC Radio today: Our brothers in Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Gaza, we now all speak...

PBC, the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Radio Station, represents the official voice of the Palestinian Authority. PBC Broadcast: 29/11/2012 Time: 0845 AM “Today the whole world recognizes the criminality of the occupation, the existence of a Palestinian State....

Who Will Rule Syria? A Detailed Assessment

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/12/12/syria-obama-initiative-marks-the-beginning-of-the-end-game/ For all practical purposes, President Barack Obama has now recognized the Syrian opposition group as the government of Syria. Specifically, he called them the “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people.” The European Union did...

Text: Insultingly silly Palestinian NGO statement against death of 17 year old Palestinian who...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59392 Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Sometimes there are events that are not clear cut. But in this case a 17 year old pointed a gun at an Israeli soldier's head at a checkpoint. There wasn't much of...

How the World Enabled 25 Years of Palestinian Decline

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/12/19/how-the-world-enabled-25-years-of-palestinian-decline/ One of the saddest comments I’ve ever heard was Gaza resident Ziad Ashour’s statement to the New York Times last week. Ever since the first intifada erupted in 1987, the 43-year-old butcher said, “things...

Israel’s Arabs: Deprived or Radicalized?

http://www.meforum.org/3423/israel-arabs-deprived-radicalized October 1, 2000, was a watershed in Arab-Jewish relations in the state of Israel. On that day, as most Israelis were celebrating the Jewish new year, their Arab compatriots unleashed a tidal wave of...

Poll No. 78, Dec. 2012 – Gaza, Resistance and the UN Bid

http://www.jmcc.org/documentsandmaps.aspx?id=858 Summary: Two weeks after the end of the war, a public opinion poll conducted by the JMCC, with support of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung East Jerusalem, aimed at studying the impact of the Gaza war and the...

Why FDI opposes the Hagel nomination

http://iran.org/news/2013_01_10-hagel.html FDI opposes the nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel to become the next Secretary of Defense. For the past 17 years, FDI has championed the pro-freedom movement in Iran, and has argued that helping Iranians to...

Israel’s Electoral Shift Unlikely To Boost Peace In Near Term

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130126/DEFREG04/301260020/Israel-8217-s-Electoral-Shift-Unlikely-Boost-Peace-Near-Term TEL AVIV - Contrary to claims of an Israeli electoral shift to more moderate, middle ground, the new government to be formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is projected to retain its right-wing reticence...

Text: Human Rights Council call for Israel to remove all Israelis from Ramat

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59940 http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil /RegularSession/Session19/FFM/FFMSettlements.pdf Human Rights Council Twenty-second session Agenda item 7 Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories. Report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil,...