Tag: Middle East

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How France Became an Iran Hawk

As a March 31 deadline looms in the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the United States and France, two strong allies, have found themselves increasingly at odds, at times quite publicly. While the White House has...

Palestinians, Arabs, and the Holocaust

INTRODUCTION One of the major Palestinian Arab arguments regarding the establishment of the state of Israel is that the West facilitated its founding out of guilt over the Holocaust. Palestinians insist that the Holocaust is...

UK: Whatever Happened to that Muslim Brotherhood Review?

The former head of MI6, Richard Dearlove, has described the Muslim Brotherhood as "at heart a terrorist organization." Officials who are soft on extremism hope that both the extremism strategy and the Muslim Brotherhood review...

Bernard Lewis explains why MAD doesn’t work with Iranian Leadership

Updated Aug. 8, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET The Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115500154638829470 During the Cold War, both sides possessed weapons of mass destruction, but neither side used them, deterred by what was known as MAD, mutual assured destruction....

Enemies’ Moves, Friends’ Silence, Slam Door on Elijah’s Hope

On Friday night during the Seder, millions of Jews in Israel and throughout the diaspora will fill Elijah’s Cup and then fling open their doors to ‘welcome’ the spirit of Elijah with the hope that...

עזה: חמאס מאמן 17 אלף ילדים למשימות טרור

בסרט שיוצג בפני ועדת האו"ם להגנה על ילדים, נראים אנשי חמאס מאמנים אלפי ילדים בחסות סוכנות אונר''א. שר הפנים: "אנו מעצבים את נאמנותם לארצם". הסרט הופק על ידי המרכז למדיניות המזרח התיכון במטרה לעצור...

Beneath the Old City of Jerusalem Lies a Huge Cave. Does It Date Back...

Beneath the Old City of Jerusalem, not far from the Damascus Gate, is the entrance to an enormous cavern, one of the largest man-made caves in Israel.  The American Colony photographers visited the cavern...

Did Israel Weaken Hamas? Inbar in Middle East Quarterly

Did Israel Weaken Hamas? The 2014 Gaza War by Efraim Inbar http://www.meforum.org/5080/did-israel-weaken-hamas Following the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank and a continuous barrage of Hamas rockets on Israeli towns and villages, the...
TWO-GUN HULDAI (right) and a ‘lei-d back’ Shimon Peres at the Purim party they co-hosted. . (photo credit:SALI BEN-ARIEH)

Grapevine: Riskin remembers marching with MLK Jr.

It’s always good to have people around who either participated in historical events, or who know people that did so and are willing to share the information. David Bedein, founder and director of the...

The Palestinian Authority’s New Economic Strategy

The Palestinian Authority is not content with breaching diplomatic clauses of the Oslo agreements and taking unilateral steps such as turning to the United Nations Security Council and the International Criminal Court at The...