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The links listed below do not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the institutions or content involved. Most of the descriptions of the various websites were taken from the websites themselves.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) -- http://www.aipac.org/. This is America’s Pro-Israel Lobby. The AIPAC has 100,000 members across all 50 states who are at the forefront of the most vexing issues facing Israel today: stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, fighting terrorism and achieving peace. And above all, ensuring that Israel is strong enough to meet these challenges.
Arutz Sheva News Service – http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Bridges for Peace – http://www.bridgesforpeace.com. Bridges For Peace is a Jerusalem-based, Bible-believing Christian organization supporting Israel and building relationships between Christians and Jews worldwide through education and practical deeds expressing God's love and mercy.
CAMERA (The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) – http://www.camera.org. . Founded in 1982, CAMERA is a media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East. CAMERA fosters rigorous reporting, while educating news consumers about Middle East issues and the role of the media.
Facts and Logic about the Middle East (FLAME) – http://www.factsandlogic.com. FLAME’s purpose for over fifteen years is to bring the truth about Israel and the Middle East conflict to the attention of an American public that is mostly uninformed and misinformed about these matters. The media — both print and broadcast — are with few exceptions biased against Israel.
Helping Israel – http://www.helpingisrael.com. This site is a public service news, information and crisis center with the purpose of providing the international public with a means to directly assist the people of Israel in times of national emergency.
Information Regarding Israel’s Security (IRIS) – http://www.iris.org.il IRIS is an independent organization dedicated to informing the public about the security needs of the State of Israel, especially vis-a-vis the current peace process.
International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem News (ICEJ) – http://www.icej.org. The ICEJ was founded in 1980 as an evangelical Christian response to the need to comfort Zion according to the command of Scripture found in Isaiah 40:1-2.
Israel Defense Forces Official Website -- http://www1.idf.il/DOVER/site/homepage.asp?clr=1&sl=EN&id=-8888&force=1.
Israel Insider -- http://www.israelinsider.com. Israel Insider is an independent, nonpartisan online publication that aims to provide an "inside perspective" on the latest news, analysis and commentary from and about Israel.
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Official Website -- http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa.
Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs (JCPA) -- http://www.jcpa.org. JCPA is an independent institute for policy research. Established in 1976, the Jerusalem Center is headed by Israel’s former UN ambassador Dr. Dore Gold.
Jerusalem Post Internet Edition – http://www.jpost.com
Jewish Virtual Library – http://www.us-israel.org/index.html. Jewish Virtual Library is a good source for information about Jewish history, Israel, U.S.-Israel relations, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Hamas, and Myths and Facts about the Arab-Israel Conflict, and Judaism.
Kol Israel – http://www.kol-israel.com. Listen to the news in Israel.
The Media Line (TML) – http://www.themedialine.org/news/index.asp. TML offers media organizations multi-faceted assistance in understanding the world's most complex and explosive region, Israel and the Middle East. TML's participating scholars and media professionals report and analyze the issues underlying breaking news and events sharing insight and perspective with local news affiliates.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – http://www.memri.org. This is an excellent site (this is similar to "CAMERA"). It is an independent, non-profit organization providing translations of the Arabic and Farsi media and original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East
One Family Fund – http://www.onefamilyfund.org. OneFamily collect not only money, but all human resources -- bringing together people who have suffered through terror attacks, along with caring people who thankfully haven't. They connect people in Israel with people in almost every country around the world. Together they volunteer time and money in order to help families of terror victims in every way.
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) – http://www.pmw.org.il. Palestinian Media Watch was established in 1996 to gain an understanding of Palestinian society through the monitoring of the Palestinian Arabic language media and schoolbooks. Palestinian Media Watch analyzes Palestinian Authority culture and society from numerous perspectives, including studies on summer camps, poetry, schoolbooks, religious ideology, crossword puzzles, and more.
Reference Desk – http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html. This site contains a very extensive list of links to National and International Newspapers.
Sources of News about the Middle East – http://www.mideastinfo.com/news.html. This site contains a helpful list of links about the Middle East, including magazines and newspapers.
United Jerusalem – http://www.unitedjerusalem.com. United Jerusalem is a not-for-profit educational foundation that utilizes data voluntarily submitted by complainants at this Web site to clarify public news reports which may contain inaccuracies and/or partiality against Jews and the State of Israel.
Yahoo Middle East News -- http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=736. Summary of Middle East News.
Arab Net -- http://www.arab.net/palestine/links.htm. Arab Net’s aim is to provide the most comprehensive online resource on the Arab world, primarily dealing with countries in the Middle East and North Africa .
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) -- http://www.cair-net.org. CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
The Electronic Intifada (EI) -- http://electronicintifada.net/v2/aboutEI.shtml. The EI is a not-for-profit, independent publication committed to comprehensive public education on the question of Palestine, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the economic, political, legal, and human dimensions of Israel's 38-year occupation of Palestinian territories.
Hamas -- Islamic Resistance Movement official website -- http://www.hamasonline.org/indexx.php?page=hamas. HAMAS is a Palestinian Islamic organization established in 1987 during the first Intifada, and is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas was formed in 1987 with the objective of destroying the Zionist entity that occupies Palestine, and establishing Palestine from the sea to the river based on Islamic principles.
Miftah – The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy – http://www.miftah.org. The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, MIFTAH, is a non-governmental non-partisan Jerusalem-based institution dedicated to fostering democracy and good governance within Palestinian society through promoting public accountability, transparency, the free flow of information and ideas, and the challenging of stereotyping at home and abroad.
The Palestine Information Center – http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish.
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) official website -- http://www.pna.gov.ps. PNA is an interim administrative organization that nominally governs parts of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip. It was established in 1994, pursuant to the Oslo accords between the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the government of Israel, as a 5-year transitional body during which final status negotiations between the two parties were to take place.
[1] David Brewer is a full-time staff member of AMF International, an adjunct professor at Philadelphia Biblical University in Hebrew, Bible, and Theology and is a Ph.D. student in Biblical and Ancient Near East Civilization at the Baltimore Hebrew University; e-mail: hebrewprof@comcast.net.