Israel Renews Construction Supply Sale To Gaza

An area where Israel continues to cope with is the world wide campaign against Israel’s restrictions of potentially lethal exports into Gaza. Since the Hamas terror takeover of Gaza in June 2007, Israel did halt...

ARMED STRUGGLE ON THE TABLE: Middle East Newsline Provides Hands-On Coverage of Fatah...

The ruling Fatah movement has been bolstered by dozens of military commanders abroad, some of whom prepared to stay in the West Bank. Nearly 100 Fatah commanders and senior operatives have arrived in the West Bank for...

Washington Institute for Near East Policy : Gap Between U.S., Saudis Widens Over Iran

WASHINGTON -- The gap between Saudi Arabia and the United States has been widening over policy toward a nuclear Iran, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that the Saudis appear far...

Why Are the Palestinians Opposed to Ending the Occupation?

Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi is a senior researcher of the Middle East and radical Islam at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is a co-founder of the Orient Research Group Ltd....

U.S. Officials: What Freeze Commitments? David Bedein Reports on Trip to the US

United States officials are unfamiliar with the commitments America is allegedly offering Israel in exchange for a ban on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, says investigative journalist David Bedein. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu...

The New Middle East

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=210724 If the mullahs aren’t overthrown, the New Middle East will be a very dark and dangerous place. A new Middle East is upon us and its primary beneficiary couldn’t be happier. In a speech Monday in the...

Terror Attacks on Israel and UNRWA’s Education System

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anav-silverman/ terror-attacks-on-israel-_b_930141.html "Peace starts here," is the key marketing slogan that UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) uses in its videos, pamphlets, posters and other marketing and fundraising material....

Finnish delusions

http://www.meforum.org/3091/finnish-delusions Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has done it again. No sooner did this 1960s radical ease himself back into the foreign minister's seat after four years in the opposition than he unveiled again his...

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...