Senior Fatah Offiicial: Seek Alliance with Iran

www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=216259 Jerusalem - Ma'an - The time has come for Fatah, Palestine's largest political party, to seek a strategic alliance with Iran, the movement's Jerusalem affairs liaison Hatim Abdul Qader told Ma'an on Saturday. In a statement, Abdul...

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...

Radical and Moderate Palestinians

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3492/radical-moderate-palestinians When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas returned from New York to Ramallah and told the Palestinians that he obtained UN recognition of a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 lines -- namely, the West Bank,...

Mahmoud Abbas’ “50 Holocausts” Remarks Are Part of the Palestinian Narrative

Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 22, No. 19 Mahmoud Abbas’ remarks about the “50 holocausts” carried out by Israel and the subsequent international criticism catalyzed Palestinians to support the...

IGNORING ANTI-SEMITIC INCITEMENT: When PR Firms Replace Israel’s Democratic Process

Since the genesis of the Oslo process in 1993, successive governments of Israel, under a binding legal and moral obligation to demand a cessation of virulent anti-semitic incitement as the condition for negotiation and...

The Palestinian Refugees on the Day After “Independence”

The gap between Israel and the Palestinians on the refugee question cannot be reconciled. The Palestinians demand a "just peace," which implies recognition of the right of return according to their interpretation, and rejects...

Promoting Peace? Reexamining U.S. Aid to the Palestinian Authority

http://schanzer.pundicity.com/10310/promoting-peace-reexamining-us-aid-to Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Berman, and distinguished members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank you for the opportunity to discuss with you...

The Revolution in Egypt: Recommendations for Israel

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11730 On January 25, 2011, 7 million Egyptians, most of them young, middle class, educated city-dwellers, took to the streets and with the assistance of the army, toppled the regime of President Husni Mubarak. On...

Kerry cites Vietnam example for Israel in remarks with Netanyahu

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62756 [Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: I honestly had to wait to see the transcript because I could not believe my ears. But there it is. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry citing Vietnam as an example. Here is...

The Jordan Valley: Israel’s security belt

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6929 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is once again in town trying to reach a framework agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. One of the issues of dispute is the fate of the...