It’s pretty remarkable that only after two years has the Obama Administration perhaps begun to get the first point: peace is not in the cards. One might also hope that it won’t take ten years to understand that the reason for this… Continue reading
Khana Amira, a senior Palestinian official, told the newspaper that the Palestinians are also considering canceling its other security commitments to Israel, including fighting terror… Continue reading
Imad Mughniyeh was één van de meest gezochte terroristen ter wereld. De Israëlische Mossad, de CIA, het Franse SGDN en andere inlichtingendiensten waren méér dan 20 jaar op zoek naar de man die een lange lijst van terroristische aanslagen op zijn CV had staan: bomaanslagen, moorden en ontvoeringen… Lees verder
The Asian convoy set out from Delhi in India on December 1. It was delayed for a number of days by the Indian and Pakistani authorities on the border between the two countries, but on December 5 it crossed the border on its way to Lahore, Pakistan, and from… Continue reading
The Palestinian Authority’s information ministry sent a press release claiming that the Partition Plan had created the “foundation for the wounds caused by the nakba…which were still open” and the reason the Palestinians had lost “their land and historical legacy”… Continue reading
If you want to understand how the debate goes in the Arabic-speaking world and the ways liberals there try to get across their message, there’s nothing better to read than Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed’s article, “Erdogan…Fulfill Your Promises.” It’s also very easy to misunderstand… Continue reading
Delegitimization is a political, economic and philosophic campaign aimed at reversing the right of the State of Israel to exist and denying the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their homeland… Continue reading
Uit een serie van gelekte geheime Amerikaanse documenten op WikiLeaks blijkt dat de VS aan het begin van dit jaar Syrië rechtstreeks beschuldigden van het leveren van geavanceerde wapens, waaronder SCUD-D raketten aan de sjiitische Hezbollah militie in Libanon… Lees verder
Israel is not hindering the solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rather, it is the PA who is unwilling to stand up and say to its people the truth, the need for true compromise. These are excerpts from… Continue reading
A factor up until now neglected in the Middle East strategic picture is Israel’s development of a strong, multi-level missile defense system aimed both against short-range rockets fired by Hamas and Hizballah as well as to guard against… Continue reading
Op 17 Augustus 2007 had Meir Dagan, hoofd van de Israëlische Mossad, een ontmoeting met Nicholas Burns, toenmalig staatssecretaris buitenlandse zaken van de VS tijdens de Bush-regering. Gedurende de ontmoeting werden verschillende ontwikkelingen in het Midden Oosten… Lees verder
De recent gelekte geheime memo’s van Amerikaanse Ambassades in het Midden Oosten geven ons een duidelijk beeld van de politieke realiteit en de krachtsverhoudingen in het Midden Oosten. Er komen enkele steeds terugkerende elementen naar voren uit… Lees verder
Volgens verschillende Amerikaanse documenten, die op de WikiLeaks website gelekt zijn, hebben meerdere Arabische Staten net als Israel er bij de Amerikanen op aangedrongen om het Iraanse nucleaire programma met militaire middelen te stoppen… Lees verder
Khaled Mashaal, head of the Hamas political bureau, gave a speech at the founding convention held in Damascus of “The national authority for adherence to Palestinian principles.” He noted five basic “principles” which he said most of the Palestinians… Continue reading
Uit gelekte documenten van de Amerikaanse Ambassade in Tel Aviv blijkt dat Ehud Barak, de Israëlische minister van defensie, begin juni 2009 Amerikaanse congresleden heeft gewaarschuwd dat er tot eind 2010 tijd is voor een aanval op Iraanse nucleaire installaties… Lees verder
On November 19, a phosphorus-containing mortar shell was fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip. It was part of an unusual attack consisting of four rockets and seven mortar shells, which may have been fired in response to the killing of Islam Yassin… Continue reading
As part of the battle for hearts and minds, Hamas and Hezbollah invest great resources in operating a number of land and satellite television channels. They use them to spread their extremist Islamist ideology, which includes incitement against Israel, the Jewish people and Western countries… Continue reading
Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has probably done more harm to Israel than any other Irish citizen. She was United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and was the architect of the Durban I anti-racism conference in 2001. Last year… Continue reading
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has blamed Israel and Western powers for the recent bomb attacks which led to the death of an Iranian academic and the injury of another… Continue reading
At midnight on May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel proclaimed the new State of Israel. On that same date, 11 minutes later, the United States, in the person of President Truman, announced its recognition of the provisional Jewish government as de facto authority of the… Continue reading
Following the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, Emir Faisal exchanged letters with Judge Felix Frankfurter [who served as a Zionist delegate of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference], professing his support for Jewish claims in Palestine… Continue reading
Priest Wasseem Sabeeh was halfway through Sunday Mass, in Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad, when an explosion shook the church. Suddenly men with guns yelling Islamic prayers burst into the church. They fired at the priests… Continue reading
It should be getting pretty hard even for Western leaders to ignore the Turkish regime’s growing alliance with their enemies. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Lebanon included a very dangerous statement that must not go unnoticed… Continue reading
The Lebanese government and Hezbollah greeted the Israeli decision with suspicion. Some also said that it would be incomplete if Israel did not also withdraw from the Shebaa Farms… Continue reading
Some ten of the activists from the British convoy calling itself the “Road to Hope,” who were abducted last week to Greece by the captain of the ship they had tried to rent, were released by the Greek coast guard. Those who were left in… Continue reading
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