The “Confusing” Messages of Mahmoud Abbas

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2736/mahmoud-abbas-messages Many Palestinians are finding it increasingly difficult to understand what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas really wants. Some say they are even confused because of Abbas's contradictory messages to the Palestinians and the rest...

The Three Rules of Western Discourse and Why The Media Must Always Blame Israel

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/01/the-three-rules-of-western- discourse-and-why-the-media-must-always-blame-israel/ It is truly astonishing how, it often seems, Western media coverage must blame Israel for everything that “goes wrong” in the Middle East, including murderous hostility to Israel. Sentences often seem carefully formulated to push...

Ending the Palestinian ‘Right of Return’

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/288231/ending-palestinian-right-return-daniel-pipes Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and...

Make Representations to Benyamin Netanyahu: Will he follow up with vital issues with the...

As talks resume with the Palestinian Authority, the time has come to ask Israel PM Benyamin Netanyahu if he follows up with vital issues with the PA: 1. Will PM Netanyahu demand that the PA...

A Palestinian civil intifada

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1096 The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published its December 2011 report on Monday, contending that in 2016 Jews will become a minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. According to the...

What Would a Hamas-Fatah Agreement Mean?

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2011/12/28/what-would-a-hamas-fatah-agreement-mean/ There are repeated efforts to forge a unity agreement of some sort between Hamas and Fatah, leading to a new “unity government” for the Palestinian Authority. Such a coalition was briefly in force in...

Hamas Marks 24th Anniversary, Says It Killed 1,365 Israelis

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/14/ bloomberg_articlesLW76DW0D9L35.DTL#ixzz1jZFHeEd4 Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Hamas marked 24 years since its founding as an Islamic movement dedicated to fighting for Palestinian independence, while the group's armed wing said it killed 1,365 Israelis in that period. More...

How Can Israel Please the American Government, Media, and “Experts”? It Can’t

http://www.gloria-center.org/2011/12/how-can-israel-please-the-american-government- media-and-%e2%80%9cexperts%e2%80%9d-it-can%e2%80%99t/ There is a constant effort-especially by the anti-Israel left-to portray those who express mainstream Israeli public opinion and the views of professional analysts as “right-wing” or “Likudnik.” This leads me to wonder what one...

The End of Fayyadism

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/14/the_end_of_fayyadism The "Arab Spring" may be pushing the Middle East toward transparency and more representative government, but the Palestinian Authority is bucking the trend. Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad, perhaps the only Palestinian leader who earnestly...

Secretary of Defense Panetta Shows How the Obama Administration is Selling Out Israel and...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2011/12/secretary-of-defense-panetta-shows -how-the-obama-administration-is-selling-out-israel-and-us-interests/ In a major address on U.S. Middle East policy to the Brookings Institution U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave us a clear picture of the Obama administration’s view of the region. When taken...