PM: Abbas does not seek peace

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3223 What's behind Abbas' new tone? Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech on Jan. 4, on the anniversary of the founding of Fatah, that may have marked a turning point in the relations between the Palestinian Authority...

PLO insists Israel release all terrorists and freeze construction in eastern Jerusalem as precondition...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59925 PLO Calls on New Israeli Government to Start Serious Peace Process http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=21584 RAMALLAH, January 30, 2013 (WAFA) - The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization called on the new Israeli government that will be formed...

Israeli Security Concerns and the Balkans

http://www.balkanalysis.com/blog/2013/03/31/israeli-security-concerns-and-the-balkans/ Heading into April 2013, Israel is confronted with a complexity of issues in the greater Middle East. These include: chronic political disagreements at home; the Syrian conflict next door, with its possibility to affect...

Israel Strike Could Halt Iran’s Nukes

An Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could end that country's weapons program, a report said. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies asserted that an Israeli destruction of some of Iran's nuclear infrastructure could mobilize...

Slashed budgets, plummeting standards, and political radicalization have turned Israel’s most respected newspaper into...

http://www.thetower.org/article/downfall-of-a-great-newspaper/ In early April of this year, the controversial Haaretz reporter Amira Hass, whose coverage of Palestinian violence over the last decade has often prompted accusations of bias, caused a major stir when she published...

The Misleading Fayyad Blame Game

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/04/24/the-misleading-salam-fayyad-blame-game-thomas-friedman/ The political demise of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad continues to drive much of the discussion about the dead-in-the-water Middle East peace process in the media. Thus, it’s no surprise that Fayyad’s No....

Victory: UN Reverses Course, Condemns Richard Falk

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1285603&ct=13095117&notoc=1 Good News: Thanks to a firestorm sparked by UN Watch, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- after initially refusing to act -- has finally accepted UN Watch's demand and condemned UN Palestine expert Richard Falk for...

Majlis Shura al-Mujahidin: Between Israel and Hamas

http://www.meforum.org/3500/majlis-shura-al-mujahidin-gaza In recent weeks and months there has been a cacophony of Salafi protest that has swept Gaza against the ruling Hamas government related to treatment of prisoners, corruption, and ability to practice Islam as...

Israel Mulls Iran Deterrence

www.menewsline.com Israel has sought to maneuver between two schools on how to deter Iran, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies asserted that strategists in Israel were considering two doctrines to deter a nuclear...

Successes and Failures of the BDS Campaign

Vol. 13, No. 11 12 May 2013 A concerted and well-organized campaign calling for “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) against the State of Israel has been in effect for several years. In spite of its...