“47 years ago the revolution started.  Which revolution?  The modern revolution of the Palestinian people’s history.  In fact, Palestine in its entirety is a revolution, since Umar came , and continuing today, and until the End of Days.  The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), in the...
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Egypt’s final round of elections earlier this month confirmed our greatest fear: victory by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) received 41% of the parliament. Together with other parties, Islamists dominate two-thirds of the new Egyptian legislature, and elected a strong Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Katatni, as Speaker of the...
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world … — William Butler Yeats By all accounts, 2011 has been a cataclysmic year in the Middle East. What began with a government official’s harassment of Mohamed Bouazizi,...
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(ed. note: The following was written by Arlene Kushner, formerly the Senior Analyst for the Center for Near East Policy Research, and currently serving that agency as a consultant. Additionally Arlene is an author, free-lance investigative journalist and blogger.  You can find a wealth of postings and investigative material at her website, www.arlenefromisrael.info. EMET...
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Sunday morning, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile commander and sixteen other IRGC officials were killed in an explosion at a base southwest of Teheran. Iranian officials called the explosion an accident during the transport of munitions, but there are a number of reasons to believe it was not. Firstly, the commander killed...
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Summary: Over the past year, events in the Middle East, including most notably the Arab Spring, have dramatically altered the security landscape facing the nation of Israel, as well as the national security interests of the United States in the region.  While each of these events have been well cataloged separately and in greater...
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How does one measure a heavy heart? Is there an instrument that can calibrate the considerable weight of the ambivalence that I am feeling today? I am spending the holiday of Sukkoth here in Israel, with my beautiful children, Rachel and Jeremy, who have just married, and who have recently made aliyah. My son-in-law,...
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On the 9th of March, 1916, Pancho Villa led 100 members of his Mexican revolutionary army across the United States border and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico.  Eighteen Americans were killed in the attack and the Mexicans took 100 horses and military supplies stored in the town.  Incensed by this invasion of...
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(Editor’s Note: This is an article written by friend of EMET Ron Thompson. Please enjoy.) Myth 1 -  “EVERYBODY KNOWS what the final result will be – two states living side by side in peace” This is the oldest and most frequently cited myth, which has taken on the character of an irrefutable mantra....
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By Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler At the recent AIPAC Policy Conference, at a packed luncheon forum for higher givers, Chairwoman of the important House Foreign Affairs Committee Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-FL), was interviewed by an AIPAC official.  When she mentioned that she is in favor of cutting off the military aid to Egypt, the...
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