Debating What to Do About Iran

Almost everyone seems to agree that the Iranian nuclear weapons project should be stopped. Preferably through economic sanctions against Iran, but if that doesn't work, then military means will have to be used. But...

A Strategy for Making Peace with the Palestinians

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives179.pdf BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 179, September 4, 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel will not be able to make peace with the Palestinians until the Palestinian community gives up its goal of destroying Israel. The Palestinians...

The Powerlessness Excuse: Debunking the Claim that Obama Could Not Have Affected the “Arab...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/10/the-powerlessness-excuse-debunking-the-claim-that-obama-could-not-have-affected-the-“arab-spring”-and-islamist-takeovers/ One argument we will be increasingly hearing is that President Barack Obama couldn’t have done anything to change events in the Middle East. This is ironic of course because when things were going well...

Israel attacks Gaza, threats of war

http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=3003 Il Giornale, November 15th, 2012 Hamas military leader Jabari killed. The terror organization replies: “The gates of hell have opened” The Israeli Government long pondered before launching a military operation called “Amud Anan”, column of cloud,...

Escalating Hamas Attacks a Result of the Arab Spring

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/escalating-hamas-attacks-result-arab-spring The latest escalation along the Israel-Gaza border - which saw Palestinians fire more than 250 rockets at Israel since Wednesday after Israel, responding to days of only slightly less intensive rocket fire, assassinated a...

Between NATO and Russia: The Pieces of Turkey’s Puzzle

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10697 It was one of the rare weeks since the outbreak of the Arab awakening that went well for Turkey. Between what was seen as a successful visit by Vladimir Putin to Istanbul on December...

The twilight of America

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ae169cb0bf1d8ed85f60ee17a&id=9e9f653b0e&e=6a9f992820 I think this is what is called a slam dunk. Barack Obama has now proposed filling the three positions in the US administration most concerned with the security of the nation and the defence...

Iran Nuke Depends On Decision

The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Iran acquired all the technology required for nuclear weapons. Officials said the community determined that the Teheran regime has refined skills and technology to enable Iran to quickly...

Russia’s new Middle Eastern role

http://www.meforum.org/3528/russia-middle-east-role Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into Western plans for Syria by promising to deliver its top-of-the-line S300 surface-to-air missile system to the Bashar al-Assad government. Exactly when the missiles might arrive remains unclear;...

The West’s New Syrian War

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-wests-new-syrian-war/ One day people will ask how the United States and several European countries became involved in mass killings, genocide, corruption, arms smuggling, and the creation of another anti-Western and regionally destabilizing government. Even if...