West Bank reporting by foreign journalists to require PA permission.

Did anyone just say "freedom of speech" and/or "freedom of the press" and/or "freedom of thought"? And if not ...

Slighted by Palestinian Authority

That's me. Personally. And here is why : Palestinian journalist Mamdouh Hamamreh from Bethlehem was sentenced on Thursday to one year in...

Bashar al-Assad assassinated?

More details by Joshuapundit . Update : Looks like this was just a bit of wishful thinking. Apparently the famous Iranian quail sent to him ...

"Shattered Arab dreams": for them, my heart bleeds (British irony)

"Four years on, Egyptians who attended the Cairo University speech feel let down, a view that hardened when Obama, who has had a volati...

Syrian rebels threaten Israel on Golan?

Coming to you from Ynet, via the Algemeiner, is this story about the IDF reinforcing its presence on the Golan Heights and, in particular, ...

A very early Chanukah present this year

The real question is can we expect seven more gifts as good as this? And what is this: " The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is reported to have...

Israeli sub off Lebanese coast: and people are surprised?

According to The Algemeiner , "Israel has stepped up military activity in and around Lebanon as can be witnessed by the recent detectio...

The humiliation of palestinian refugees

For more than 60 years now the issue of Palestinian refugees is kept alive and kicking by the 300 million strong Arab world, with support an...

Significant reduction in the ranks of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Israel blamed. So what's new?

Reuters reports (brought to us via the Foreign Policy online journal) that Syrian rebels have killed a senior Iranian revolutionary Guard o...

Dictionary definition of death wish: Syrians urge government to open Golan front v. Israel

Well, according to The Algemeiner, Syrian citizens (though probably not the rebels - they have other things on their minds right now) “...wa...

A new border fence with Syria

So, The Algemeiner tells us , Israel is planning the "world’s most advanced border system" between the Golan Heights and Syria. C...

Why didn't al-Assad even throw a pebble at Israel?

Asks Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu : "Why didn't the Syrian Army, which has been attacking its own innocent people for 2...

On the Syrian art of cursing

The short but spirited cursing session below revives my confidence in humanity: It also reminded me a earlier scene, also from Syria:

An Israeli air strike on Syria, on...?

Now, this is interesting: the following hasn't surfaced on UK news broadcasts, although we did only get back to the UK on Wednesday, hav...

On the alleged Israeli Air Force attack in Syria

The headlines are many and in part contradictory: Starting with: Israeli jets reportedly attack convoy on Lebanon-Syria border Israeli jets...

Because our region is going to hell...

A set of dire (but not surprising) predictions by David Horovitz: Storm warning .

Chuck Hagel controversy and beyond

There is so much that was already said about the Hagel's nomination that the hearings in his case could be canceled in favor of quick ba...

How Israeli courts protect Israel from itself

There is a constant refrain among the nay-sayers on Israel that Israel is constantly breaching the human rights of the Palestinians, and, in...

So you don't like them Ayatollahs too, folks?

If Reuters are saying this , it must be true: Six U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states demanded on Tuesday that Iran end what they called interferen...

Second Intifada 'premeditated', says Arafat's widow

Much of the time, especially with on-line newspapers, we find ourselves reading reheated stories (even if the "facts" are new). Th...