Concerns about Middle East Studies workshop

Dear President Qayoumi, Mo.Qayoumi@sjsu.edu We are faculty at the University of California and co-founders of the AMCHA Initiative, a grassroots organization committed to investigating, documenting, and combatting campus antisemitism, particularly on California public university campuses. We...

Speech to Board of Deputies of British Jews

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104762 INTRODUCTION Chief Rabbi, Your Excellency, My Lords, and Gentlemen, Mr. President I am honoured and delighted to be with you tonight. You have already shown me every courtesy. Indeed, you have done even more than courtesy...

Getting rid of Bashar Assad won’t end Syria’s civil war

http://www.meforum.org/3501/bashar-assad-syria-civil-war To hear Obama administration officials talk about the Syrian civil war, you'd think it all hinges on the fate of one man. According to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Syrian President Bashar Assad "calculated...

Putin is unreliable; on to direct messages to Assad

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4383560,00.html The bellicose statements issued by senior defense officials regarding Syria in the last three days are not accidental. This time, it seems, it is not a case of too many public appearances by the...

U.S. Envoy Tackles Israel-PA Security

President Barack Obama's new security envoy has been tackling security obstacles to the establishment of a Palestinian state. John Allen, the former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has been supporting the shuttle by Secretary of State...

America’s Problems in the Middle East are Just Beginning

http://www.meforum.org/3583/america-problems-middle-east It's 2015, and there is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas), financed by Iran, wins an election on a platform demanding the expulsion...

The Pros and Cons of Attacking Syria

http://www.meforum.org/3599/attacking-syria Go after the dog's master, not the dog. Kudos to Michael Ledeen for explaining that the road to Damascus starts in Tehran. As Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu explained on Aug. 25, "Assad's regime isn't acting...

Tourism at record high in 1st half of 2013

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4403001,00.html VIDEO - Tourism to Israel hit a record January-June high this year, reaching 1.7 million visitors, the Central Bureau of Statistics said this week. The figure was 1% higher than in the same six-month period...

Without Palestinian sovereignty Israel captures murderer in hours

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=61939 #1. Yasser Arafat forfeited the Palestinian right to resist the Israeli occupation with violence as a pre-condition for Oslo "...the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence" Letter From Yasser Arafat...