Fayyad “ready to resign”

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=517945 RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Thursday announced he would resign if that was the will of the people, amid growing protests across the West Bank over the rising cost...

Gaza tunnel trade: Matter of life and death for Hamas

http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=30885 Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat - The hundreds of underground tunnels that connect the Gaza Strip and Egypt have served as a means of smuggling banned goods into the occupied territories over the past 5 years...

A Strategy for Making Peace with the Palestinians

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives179.pdf BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 179, September 4, 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel will not be able to make peace with the Palestinians until the Palestinian community gives up its goal of destroying Israel. The Palestinians...

Illegal Arab building defies Supreme Court ruling

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=282825 The illegal “building intifada” being waged by the Palestinian Authority on state lands in Area C of Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank), has become the latest battleground for the radical Left in conjunction...

The truth about ISM

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5641 The family of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an army bulldozer during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Gaza in 2003, filed a civil suit against the State of Israel for their daughter's death. This...

The Order for Beatings Came From Abbas’s Office

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3316/abbas-office-ordered-beatings A Palestinian commission of inquiry into the beating of Palestinian journalists and demonstrators in Ramallah has found that top officials in Mahmoud Abbas's office had ordered the assault. The discovery did not come as a...

How Many Millionaires Live in the “Impoverished” Gaza Strip?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3308/gaza-millionaires The world often thinks of the Gaza Strip, home to 1.4 million Palestinians, as one of the poorest places on earth, where people live in misery and squalor. But according to an investigative report published...

The Role of Hamas in the Formation of Global Jihadi Networks in Sinai

http://jcpa.org/article/the-role-of-hamas-in-the-formation-of-global-jihadi-networks-in-sinai/ Vol. 12, No. 18 After the Rafah attack, it was noticeable that the Egyptian government refrained from condemning the terrorists’ plan to carry out a mass-casualty attack in Israel. Indeed, senior Muslim Brotherhood figures pointed...

The war against the Jews

http://www.meforum.org/3299/war-against-jews The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since Israel is the world's only Jewish state, and since Zionism is...

All the Ayatollah’s Men

http://nationalinterest.org/article/all-the-ayatollahs-men-7344?page=show MORE THAN thirty years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power-and two decades after his passing-the Islamic Republic remains an outlier in international relations. Other non-Western, revolutionary regimes eventually eschewed a rigidly ideological foreign...