Middle East Coverage: Philadelphia Bulletin December 11-14th

This news item was prepared in cooperation with Noam Bedein, head of the regional news service for Sderot and the Western Negev in southern Israel. The first salvo was fired on Thursday at 7:30 a.m. Four...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: December 15, 2007 Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat) "Har Homa" The plans to build further units in Har Homa -- they would not extend Har Homa, but would be built inside the area already established -- were...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: December 13, 2007 "When Does It Get Better?" "The resignation of Sderot's mayor constitutes a great victory for the Palestinian resistance. This is a political victory, a victory for morale, it adds to the humiliation...

DAVID BEDEIN: ON ASSIGNMENT IN ANNAPOLIS FOR THE PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN

11/26/2007 "The Annapolis Summit Has Begun" Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in the U.S. yesterday and said that Israel would take a positive view of Syrian participation in the Annapolis conference and negotiations...

Bush To Make Visit To Israel

It was announced last night that United States President George W. Bush will make his first official visit - while in office - to Israel and the Palestinian Authority in January. This visit will be...

DOCUMENT: SAUDI INITIATIVE WILL BE PRESENTED AT ANNAPOLIS

Aaron Klein, the Israel Bureau Chief of WorldNetDaily.com, says that his agency has obtained the document which will provide the basis for the Annapolis conference. Klein reports that, according to the documnent in his...

Palestinian Authority Radio sermon broadcast from Al Aqsa Mosque on November 23rd

No message to the Palestinian people is more genuine than the message delivered in the Arabic language on the official Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, the PBC, which operates out of the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian...

Israel Struggles With PLO’s ‘Right Of Return’ Demands

With the genesis of the Oslo process in 1993, what escaped the attention of the mainstream media in Israel and abroad was the continuing insistence of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that all Palestinian...

The UN terror connection in Gaza

Breakdown and Introduction At the beginning of November, Col. Nir Press, of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration, registered a complaint with the United Nations Relief and Welfare Agency (UNWRA) regarding the use by...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: November 18, 2007 "Anyone's Guess" Will the conference be held in Annapolis on November 27? Still possible, but looking less likely. Khaled Abu Toameh is reporting in the Post that PA officials are saying they are...