Palestinians oppose ending Israel's 'occupation!'

by J.D.Halevi, Jerusalem Post The Palestinians want to keep the lava of the refugee problem at full boil. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s plan to assist the Gaza Strip in becoming an independent entity has encountered wall-to-wall Palestinian opposition. The dual-headed Palestinian regime in Ramallah (Fatah) and in the Gaza Strip (Hamas) totally rejects Lieberman’s proposal…

Guide to the perplexed

by Caroline B. Glick, JPost   Israel’s leaders are reportedly concerning themselves with one question today: Are there any circumstances in which US President Barack Obama will order the US military to strike Iran’s nuclear installations before Iran develops a nuclear arsenal? From Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu down the line, Israel’s leaders reportedly raise this…

Israel's anti-Obama

by George Will, Washington Post Two photographs adorn the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike — in life experiences, temperaments and political philosophies — than Netanyahu, the former commando and fierce nationalist, and Barack Obama, the former professor and post-nationalist.…

Lebanon's crisis strikes discord in Palestinian Gaza

by DEBKAfile Beirut is caught in a vice between pro-Iranian and pro-Syrian factions over the Saudi move to pull Syria away from its support for the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah and Tehran’s counter-moves. In Palestinian Gaza, debkafile’s military sources report, this conflict is reflected in the strains breaking surface between the ruling Hamas, whose political secretary…