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US 2010 Religious Freedom Report Toned Down Criticism of Israel

The U.S. State Department’s 2010 International Religious Freedom Report that was released last week, actually toned down the unjustified criticism that for years was the norm in the document authored by… Continue reading

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Majority of PA Arabs See Two States as ‘Temporary Solution’

According to a new poll sponsored by the non-profit organization The Israel Project, a majority of Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza favor two states only as a step towards an Arab state of Palestine… Continue reading

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Egypt Arrests Hundreds of Islamists Ahead of Elections

On Sunday, Muslim Brotherhood lawyer Abdel Monem Abdel Maqsoud, said that the current clampdown against Muslim Brotherhood’s candidates and their supporters has noticeably increased during the past few days with… Continue reading

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Guarantees Of Peace

Peace will not come as long as the powers abet Arab visions of a paradise on earth, encourage them in their hopes of destroying and inheriting Israel, and equip them with the instruments for the undertaking. The prospect of peace will appear on the horizon when the Arab leaders realize that they cannot change the… Continue reading

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Palestinians Continue Building Settlements Despite PA Ban

Palestinian workers continue to build houses in Jewish settlements according to Arabic international newspaper, A-Sharq Al-Awsat, even though the Palestinian Authority passed a law forbidding work in the settlements earlier this year… Continue reading

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After The Yom Kippur War

In July 1972, the Egyptian President announced that he had asked the Soviet government to withdraw its “advisers” from Egypt. The reason, he said, was that the Soviets had refused his requests for more sophisticated weapons with which to attack Israel… Continue reading

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Is Iran’s Regime Officially Running A Pro-Nazi Site?

Is Iran’s government sponsoring an Internet site that extols the German Nazis, their history and achievements, including the antisemitism that the current Iranian regime also supports? Or is it merely permitting one to operate in a highly censored… Continue reading

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No One Understands What Victory Means

General Sir David Richards, commander of the British military and former NATO commander in Afghanistan, gave an interview to the Sunday Telegraph that is extremely important and easily misunderstand. The headline statement has been Richards’ remark that a military victory against… Continue reading

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Members of British Convoy Claim They Were Taken Hostage

Between seven and ten activists of the British aid convoy calling itself Road to Hope, which defines itself as an independent, non-affiliated convoy, claimed they were taken hostage by the captain of the rented ship Strofades IV… Continue reading

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Israel’s Function In The Modern World

Only once throughout the eighteen years of the Armistice Agreement did any Arab leader challenge the thesis that war alone would bring about the elimination of Israel. There were continual and often acrimonious discussions on the timing of the predestined onslaught on the Jewish state… Continue reading

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Egyptian Media Criticizes Hamas for Inviting Ahmadinejad To Gaza Strip

Hamas’ invitation of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to the Gaza Strip provoked strong criticism from the Egyptian media. The media attacks, especially in the Egyptian establishment press, reflect Egypt’s fear of the Gaza Strip’s turning into an extremist Islamic entity… Continue reading

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Poster Art of the Armenian Genocide

By the end of the nineteenth century, there were some 300,000 Armenians in Iran (Persia at the time) representing almost 3% of the Iranian population of 1900. The massacres at the end of 19th century and early 20th century brought more Armenian refugees… Continue reading

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Cabinet Approves To Withdraw Unilaterally From Ghajar

Israel’s security cabinet on Wednesday morning approved a plan to withdraw IDF troops from the northern part of Ghajar and to redeploy the troops on the Israeli side [south] of the ‘Blue Line’… Continue reading

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Israel Plans To Withdraw Unilaterally From Ghajar

Israel’s security cabinet is expected Wednesday to endorse a plan to unilaterally withdraw the IDF from the northern part of Ghajar, an area where the boundaries between Israel, Syria and Lebanon are in dispute. Approval of the plan… Continue reading

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Turkey Moving Toward A Semi-Dictatorship

Soner Cagaptay, senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, writes in an article that since 2002, when Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power… Continue reading

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The Cause Of The Conflict

The nature of the Arab purpose in Palestine was illumined, was indeed dramatized, by the clash between the terrorist organizations and the Jordanian government that began September 1970. Not an ideological confrontation nor the result of a difference of opinion on the proper fate of Israel… Continue reading

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IDF Seized Large Sums of Terror Linked Finances and Property

Last night, in a joint IDF-ISA operation in Tulkarm, security forces confiscated the money and possessions of a senior Hamas operative that was recently convicted of transferring Hamas finances into the Judea and Samaria region… Continue reading

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Summary of Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Strip

The Israeli Government, together with the IDF, coordinates the delivery of a variety of humanitarian aid and development assistance to the civilian population of the Gaza Strip on a daily basis. The following report details cross-border activities for the… Continue reading

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A Garland Of Myths

The distortion of history, ancient and modern, basic to the Arab-British resistance to Jewish restoration, had been fully articulated by 1948. After 1948, the Arabs added greater depth and vehemence in presentation and with it a theme of hatred of the Jews, comparable only to the demonology of medieval Christianity or the excesses of German Nazi propaganda in our own age… Continue reading

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Arafat and His Legacy: No To Peace, No To Compromise

Today, the Arafat era’s lessons have been largely swept under the rug: his persistent mendacity, use of terrorism, cynical exploitation of an “underdog” posture to garner sympathy, and unfailing devotion to the dream of wiping Israel off the map. The placing of that last priority over creating a Palestinian state is why… Continue reading

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Iranian Authorities Continue Crackdown On Rap Music

Earlier this week, Tehran Province police chief Hossein Sajediniya reported the arrest of several young Iranians belonging to underground rap groups. He said that intelligence had made it possible for the public safety police to track down and capture the group members… Continue reading

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Hizballah Leader Hassan Nasrallah Angers Iranians With Recent Speeches

A video recently circulated on YouTube, showing fragments from two speeches made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, has angered many Iranian web surfers this week. The video contains fragments from two speeches given by Nasrallah on… Continue reading

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Iran: Democrats’ Defeat In the U.S. Midterm Elections Reflects Failure of U.S. Policy

This week, Iranian top officials and media extensively reported on the Democratic Party’s defeat in the U.S. midterm elections, taking it as a reflection of President Obama’s weakness and the failure of his [Middle East] policy… Continue reading

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Beginning To Restore The Land

The land, unloved by its rulers and uncared for by most of its handful of inhabitants, whose silences Lamartine had likened to those of ruined Pompeii, and which Mark Twain had compassionately consigned to the world of dreams, began to come to life again with the blossoming of Jewish restoration in the nineteenth century… Continue reading

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Israeli Cabinet Will Only Consider A Final US 90-Day Settlement Freeze Proposal

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed his Cabinet Sunday on the U.S. 90-day settlement freeze proposal to entice Israel to renew limits on settlement construction and revive stalled peace talks with the Palestinians… Continue reading