Daily Archives: August 3, 2012

Missile fire on Tel Aviv will unleash unprecedented Israeli response

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5271 Former intelligence chief Amos Yadlin says Israel is under threat of only about 1,000 "effective missiles." • When missiles start falling on Tel Aviv Israel's legitimacy will drastically increase, as will our ability to...

It won’t work without the Americans

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4263870,00.html It is becoming increasingly clear that the sanctions won’t be enough to cause the Iranian government to halt its nuclear program. No one can predict exactly when or how Iran will wave the white...

Tehran Takedown: How to Spark an Iranian Revolution

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137803/michael-ledeen/tehran-takedown?page=show The nuclear question is at the center of most countries' Iran policies. China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States have all engaged in negotiations to convince Tehran to give up...

What the Iranian People “Really Think”… and How to Help Them

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3226/iranian-people We should be extremely suspicious of public opinion surveys that purport to reveal what Iranians -- or anyone else in totalitarian countries -- "really think." They are not going to speak openly to anyone...

It’s Not (Just) the Culture, Stupid: 4 Reasons Why Israel’s Economy Is So Strong

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/its-not-just-the-culture-stupid-4-reasons-why-israels-economy-is-so-strong/260610/?google_editors_picks=true # The government has learned from economic disaster, embraced high-skilled immigrants, played venture capitalist, and imported one heck of a good central banker. (Reuters) In case it wasn't clear the first time he said it, Mitt...

Brussels’s Hezbollah Blinders

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443866404577563151864043044.html When terrorists struck in Bulgaria last month, killing five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver, Jerusalem immediately accused Hezbollah and its Iranian paymasters of the crime. Tehran and Hezbollah, as always, denied it....