Middle East Pundit

The U.N.’s Human Rights Council has a Public Relations problem.
The states most guilty of human rights violations including Russia, China and Cuba refuse to allow an investigation into their abuses.
So far, they’ve been able to curb any investigative hearings.
However, with a slew of Arab and Muslim countries on the Council, Israel has not had the […]

Iran has attacked the new movie 300 as a U.S. psychological conspiracy to make Iranian culture look bad.
The movie’s effort wound be fruitless, because “values in Iranian culture and the Islamic Revolution are too strongly seated to be damaged by such plans”, said the Iranin [sic] official.
If Iranian culture and the Islamic Revolution are “too […]

To say the West has put an economic embargo on the Palestinians is not merely misleading…it’s a flat out lie.
Aid to the Palestinians has increased 200 million in 2006 over aid provided in 2005, going from 1 Billion (U.S. dollars) to 1.2 Billion (U.S. dollars).
Hamas has asked Israel to implore the international community to “end […]

Hamas has recently appeared in the news as making a monumentous peace overture to Israel, which, when Israel rejects it, Hamas will point the finger and say “see, they’re not serious about peace.”
Hamas has said they will offer a full cease fire with Israel, if Israel persuades the international community to recognize the new Palestinian […]

Looks like Ahmadinejad is capable of enraging not only his enemies, but his allies as well.
The Jerusalem Post reports that:
Syrian President Bashar Assad exchanged harsh words with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a phone conversation, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyassah reported on Wednesday.
…the conversation reportedly turned ugly when Ahmadinejad voiced support for the establishment of an […]

Like the U2 song, Israel cannot live with or without Hamas.
Hamas’ election and Saudi recognition (which has propped up their status internationally) has forced Israel to work with a Hamas government if they’re going to make a peace deal with the slight problem that Hamas wants nothing of it.
Evacuation of West Bank settlements will […]

If Israel made peace with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors would the Middle East experience a golden age of peace without precedent in which all current conflicts between various states with no ties or interests in Israel suddenly dissipate? The smart guys who wrote the Iraq Study Group (ISG) and Kofi Annon seem to […]

The Israelis purposely left behind synagogues in the Gaza Strip to show the world how Palestinians behave like animals.
Or so goes the thinking of Abu Abir, spokeperson for the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).
[Israel] left the synagogues behind so the world would see the Palestinians destroying them,” said Abir.
It’s always Israel’s fault…
Palestinians kill each other and […]

54 Israeli families are leaving Sderot because of the constant rocket fire from Palestinian terrorists.
Instead of paring down the rocket fires, this has encouraged the terrorists to launch even more rockets. “Kill Jews and they run,” or so the thinking goes.
The departure of some 54 families from Sderot is one fruit of the […]