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Secret Israeli army base exposed… on Facebook

265 of Israel’s best soldiers may have been smart enough to serve at a top-secret base, but they weren’t smart enough to keep it off of Facebook. What did they do? They created a private Facebook group for their top-secret military base …...

Published 8 Jul 2010 1:45 PM by Neal Ungerleider

Filed under: hamas, fatah, Salam Fayyad, Fadi Elsalameen [Edit Tags]
Is Salam Fayyad's life in danger?

I have been trying to reach my friend J for several days but with no luck. Today I was finally able to reach him. The first words out of his mouth were: "I am sick of this life, this work. It gets dirtier every day. I have been living in my office...

Published 6 Jul 2010 12:41 PM by Fadi Elsalameen

Filed under: hamas, fatah, Salam Fayyad, Fadi Elsalameen [Edit Tags]
The Russians are coming

Israel expressed "deep disappointment" Thursday over a meeting the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held this week in Syria with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, saying the organization must play a role in peace efforts. Calling Hamas "a terror...

Published 14 May 2010 5:52 PM by Jamal Dajani

Filed under: hamas, Syria, USA [Edit Tags]
Street signs, Israel-Palestine and terrorism

The New York Times ran a piece today on the Palestinian Authority naming a street in Ramallah for Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash . The piece encapsulates the emotional passions, rhetoric and seeming inability of Americans to comprehend the Arab-Israeli...

Published 15 Apr 2010 8:19 AM by Neal Ungerleider

Filed under: palestine, hamas [Edit Tags]
Hamas facing a financial crisis

Hamas has started taxing street vendors and imposed a number of other new taxes in an effort to shore up its sagging finances. Jamal Nassar, a Hamas MP, says the government is facing a financial crisis (عربي) because of international sanctions and the...

Published 14 Apr 2010 4:56 AM by Gregg Carlstrom

Filed under: hamas [Edit Tags]
What must be done

Now, here's a sequence of events. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu states that Israel would not be bullied into peace. The implication, that peace is something the Netanyahu government is, at best, not enthused about, was lost on most of...

Published 12 Apr 2010 8:03 AM by Moshe Yaroni

Filed under: israel, hamas [Edit Tags]
Independent and interdependent

By Sam Bahour and Bernard Avishai RAMALLAH & JERUSALEM - The latest rift between the United States and Israel, which began with the Israeli announcement of more construction planned for Ramat Shlomo - a Jewish-only neighbourhood that would further...

Published 9 Apr 2010 1:56 AM by Bernard Avishai

Filed under: hamas [Edit Tags]
Why Hamas won and what it means

Although it is still unclear what the future holds for Israelis and Palestinians, a few things can be said about the processes that enabled Hamas to win a landslide victory in the January 25 democratic elections and how the organizations triumph will...

Published 28 Mar 2010 9:37 PM by Neve Gordon

Filed under: israel, hamas [Edit Tags]
Israel must talk to Hamas before it’s too late

TEL AVIV - Israel must talk to Hamas. Not secretly. Not indirectly. Not for a politician to rehabilitate himself on the way to taking over the leadership of a party, as Kadima's Shaul Mofaz tried to do, but openly and seriously. Just as the United...

Published 20 Mar 2010 11:33 AM by David Zonsheine

Filed under: israel, hamas [Edit Tags]
Syria Is reasserting Its regional authority

After lying low for almost five years, Syria is now standing tall, as is evident in its expanding relationships in the region and elsewhere. Even the Obama administration is now doing its best to win over Syria's capable President Bashar Al Assad...

Published 23 Feb 2010 10:05 AM by George S. Hishmeh

Filed under: hamas, obama, lebanon, Arab, United States [Edit Tags]
Ludlum in Dubai: Hamas assassination could provide breakthrough opportunity

Taylor Marsh has a great post up that pieces together elements of the Robert Ludlumesque intrigue around the recent assassination in Dubai of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh . The story is gripping and sensational -- and could lead either to further...

Published 18 Feb 2010 3:34 PM by Steve Clemons

Filed under: palestine, israel, hamas, US [Edit Tags]
Is Obama more AIPAC than J street?

Steve Rosen, former AIPAC policy director (the lobby let him go after he was charged under the Espionage Act for trading in classified information) writes in today's Foreign Policy blog that President Obama has turned out to be no dove on Israeli...

Published 17 Feb 2010 9:07 AM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: israel, hamas, US, J street, AIPAC [Edit Tags]
No, the Arabs don't want the Jews dead

Andrew Sullivan quotes a "reader " who addresses the charge that Arabs and Iranians only want the Jews dead and care not an iota for their own people. I'm quoting this anonymous "reader" in full because he simply blows the argument...

Published 16 Feb 2010 12:02 PM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: palestine, israel, hamas, MJ Rosenberg, Arab [Edit Tags]
Obama must put pressure on Israel

The US president has tried the carrot - it may be time for the stick. Barack Obama does not want to resort to using the stick, although this approach has been effective in the past, especially in settling Arab-Israeli disputes. This was pointed out by...

Published 15 Jan 2010 4:40 AM by George S. Hishmeh

Filed under: gaza, hamas [Edit Tags]
Changing tides — overview of 2009 in Palestine

People are always asking me, "How are things in Palestine? How have things changed since you were there last?" Well, violence is down in the West Bank, and a few major checkpoints have been opened for longer periods than usual. Buildings are...

Published 15 Jan 2010 4:23 AM by Pamela Olson

Filed under: gaza, hamas [Edit Tags]
Israel, Palestine prisoner exchange not an alternative to negotiations

If the Islamic movement Hamas succeeds in obtaining the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including many with long-term sentences, it will, no doubt, complicate the delicate attempts to reach a negotiated agreement between Israel and the Palestinians...

Published 20 Dec 2009 1:17 AM by Daoud Kuttab

Filed under: hamas, gilad shalit [Edit Tags]
Prisoner exchange: A reflection on Mideast disagreements

If there were a case that could illustrate the disagreement between Israel and the Palestinians, the Shalit prisoner exchange deal could be the one. Various aspects of any such exchange, and the way different issues are being spun politically, are illustrative...

Published 1 Dec 2009 4:22 AM by Daoud Kuttab

Filed under: hamas [Edit Tags]
Hamas prisoners’ exchange: A highly complicated political issue

Hamas leaders in Damascus and Gaza struggled to find proper words to answer queries from hundreds of families of Palestinian prisoners waiting to be reunited with their loved ones during Eid al-Adha. "We could not make any promises," a Hamas...

Published 27 Nov 2009 6:43 AM by Lamis Andoni

Filed under: hamas [Edit Tags]
Encountering Peace: Negotiating about negotiations

For the past two weeks I have traveled cross-country in the US speaking in synagogues, churches, mosques and universities. My message to my audiences has been one of hope. I have met Jewish communities in deep division. I have found communities (Jews...

Published 10 Nov 2009 11:20 AM by Gershon Baskin

Filed under: hamas [Edit Tags]
Meshaal confirms he is sending a Hamas delegation to Cairo

AMMAN, JORDAN -- On Saturday, 17 October, I interviewed Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on a range of subjects at his offices in Damascus, Syria. The full interview is currently being edited and will be released first at Palestine Note and will then appear...

Published 18 Oct 2009 10:27 AM by Steve Clemons

Filed under: hamas, meshaal [Edit Tags]
How "peace" became a dirty word for ordinary Israelis and Palestinians

The common belief, often quoted by well-wishing visitors to Israel and the Palestinian territories, is that "both people, Israelis and Palestinians, want peace. It's the politicians who bring war." The reality is almost the opposite: even...

Published 12 Oct 2009 8:02 AM by Noam Sheizaf

Filed under: israel, hamas, fatah [Edit Tags]
America and Israel: United Behind Hamas

It is now common knowledge that, from the time of Hamas's formation, the Israeli government played a major role in building it up as a "safer" alternative to Fatah. In the 1970's and 1980's, successive Israeli governments feared...

Published 5 Oct 2009 10:36 AM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: israel, gaza, hamas, palestinians, fatah, US [Edit Tags]
The Loneliest Man in the World

Izzeldine Abuelaish could be the loneliest man on earth. A Palestinian father who lost three daughters when Israeli shells struck their home in Gaza two days before a cease-fire ended the war between Israel and Hamas, he seems to be the only person left...

Published 29 Sep 2009 2:57 AM by Mona Eltahawy

Filed under: israel, gaza, hamas [Edit Tags]
In Gaza, Hamas sponsors an engagement party for blind men

The engagement party for the dozens of blind and partially-sighted Palestinians men in Gaza included a band of marching boy scouts, singing girls in white dresses and a man dancing in a monkey suit. The 38 men stood on a stage while their fiancées...

Published 9 Sep 2009 5:29 PM by Nidal Aly

Filed under: palestine, gaza, palestinian territories, hamas [Edit Tags]

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Secret Israeli army base exposed… on Facebook

Is Salam Fayyad's life in danger?

The Russians are coming

Street signs, Israel-Palestine and terrorism

Hamas facing a financial crisis

What must be done

Independent and interdependent

Why Hamas won and what it means

Israel must talk to Hamas before it’s too late

Syria Is reasserting Its regional authority

Ludlum in Dubai: Hamas assassination could provide breakthrough opportunity

Is Obama more AIPAC than J street?

No, the Arabs don't want the Jews dead

Obama must put pressure on Israel

Changing tides — overview of 2009 in Palestine

Israel, Palestine prisoner exchange not an alternative to negotiations

Prisoner exchange: A reflection on Mideast disagreements

Hamas prisoners’ exchange: A highly complicated political issue

Encountering Peace: Negotiating about negotiations

Meshaal confirms he is sending a Hamas delegation to Cairo

How "peace" became a dirty word for ordinary Israelis and Palestinians

America and Israel: United Behind Hamas

The Loneliest Man in the World

In Gaza, Hamas sponsors an engagement party for blind men

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