Posts Tagged: middle east
Biden at J Street Conference: Regional Unrest Offers Opportunity to Reach Peace Agreement
JTA - Instability in the Middle East presents an incentive to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace, Vice President Joe Biden told J Street's annual conference. After...
Poll: Only 8% of Americans See Syria as Top Issue
Syria's use of chemical weapons may further erode whatever stability remains in the Middle East and entangle Congress in a bitter dispute over whether to...
Israel Tourism Remains Strong Despite Mid-East Unrest, Egyptian Border Visits Down 82%
Despite upheaval in the Middle East, tourism to Israel has remained relatively strong, Israel's Tourism Ministry said on Tuesday. According to the country's Central Bureau of...
Peres Tells Ambassadors ‘War Always Ends in Disappointment’
Israeli President Shimon Peres warned an audience of foreign ambassadors gathered on Tuesday to celebrate the upcoming Jewish New Year that "war always ends in...
Tony Blair Says Egypt Has ‘No Future’ as Islamic State
Tony Blair believes that Egypt has "no future as an Islamic state that aspires to be part of a regional caliphate." Writing for Project Syndicate,...
Preacher at Venerable Syrian Mosque: Jews are at Fault for Middle East Strife (VIDEO)
A preacher at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, one of the oldest and largest in the world, recently claimed that "the Jews" were responsible for...
Jordanian and Israeli Students Learn to Save Lives Together
Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) graduated its first class of Jordanian and Israeli students who completed a special joint-emergency medicine BA program earlier...
Netanyahu: “We are Anticipating a Deterioration”
Lebanon Daily Star/AFP - Israel is gearing up for a deterioration in the regional situation, with a growing number of new threats facing the...
Netanyahu Reduces Proposed Cut to Israeli Defense Budget
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled Monday that the Israeli defense budget will be cut by 3 billion shekels ($840 million), in lieu of the...
Chuck Hagel Joins the Palestine Firsters
Chuck Hagel established himself as a Palestine Firster on October 27, 2009, speaking at J Street's first national conference: "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is central, not...
An Ode To ‘Islamic Truth’
Inasmuch as Salafis are vile and violent, so too must they be credited with being refreshingly frank and honest, especially in comparison with...
Breaking the Stranglehold: Defeating Hamas and Hezbollah is Vital to Israel’s Survival
In the current Middle East, where erstwhile Israeli allies like Egypt and Turkey display open hostility, where Sudan serves as Iran's warehouse and Gaza and...
Determination, Not Deterrence, Will Secure Israel
Israeli leaders, both political and military, are notorious for publicly musing about whether or not the enemies of Israel are deterred from attacking. In so...
Report Criticizes Norway for Rise in Anti-Semitism
The Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe has issued a damning report on Norwegian Officials' failure to address anti-Semitism in that country. The OSCE delegation...
