Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said in the interview with the Arab daily Al-Hayat that a regional organization should be formed “even if we don’t recognize each other.”

From Fox–It doesn’t get more awe inspiring than this! Yes we can!

These men put themselves in danger to try and tell the world the truth about the Islamic jihad against the world, especially the West and Israel.

An interesting interview between Jeffery Gold and John McCain. Earlier McCain had a not so favorable Jerusalem Post interview, where he announced he would have anti-Israel Mideast advisors. He did better here, but what is true?

Jeffery Goldberg, The Atlantic
(einshalom note: yes, I know that this is one of Obama’s least favorite pictures, but I don’t pretend to be fair and balanced, only accurate. I like this photo.)
The Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef did Barack Obama no favor recently when he said: “We like Mr. Obama and we hope that he [...]

CAMERA Feb. 2, 2008
Robert Malley is one of the most often quoted commentators on U.S. Middle East policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict, thanks mostly to his time in the Clinton administration, where he served on the National Security Council as Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, and also as Special Assistant to the [...]

On Monday, Jan. 28, Barak Obama agreed to be interviewed on a conference call sponsored by JTA, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Obama answered the correspondents’ four questions. JTA recorded the conversation and made it available for downloading. Click the player above to hear the interview!

Jerusalem Issue Brief
Institute for Contemporary Affairs
founded jointly at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
with the Wechsler Family Foundation
Vol. 7, No. 27 7 January 2008
Gerald M. Steinberg

Within two weeks following publication of the NIE report, China signed a major contract on energy development and supply with Iran, and Russia quickly dispatched two shipments [...]

The US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, published in December, 2007 caused a major stir and serious reconsiderations among American allies in the Mideast and elsewhere by saying that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and was not likely to develop nuclear weapons in the forseeable future.

A performance-based roadmap to a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The following is a performance-based and goal-driven roadmap, with clear phases, timelines, target dates, and benchmarks aiming at progress through reciprocal steps by the two parties in the political, security, economic, humanitarian, and institution-building fields, under the auspices of the Quartet.
The destination is a [...]

Resolution 242 (1967)
of 22 November 1967

The Security Council,
Expressing its continuing concern with the grave situation in the Middle East,
Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security,
Emphasizing further that all Member States [...]