Egypt’s Classic Strategic Triangle

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives133.pdf BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 133, March 16, 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Three forces are now competing for control of Egypt: the army, the Muslim Brotherhood, and various other opposition organizations. The outcome depends on...

TWO YEARS AFTER GOLDSTONE, GENEVA COMES TO SDEROT

Photo by Maor Moravia Photo by Maor Moravia Photo by Maor Moravia Photo by Maor Moravia On Wednesday the 9th of March 2011, an unprecedented video conference was convened at the Sderot City Hall, between representatives and residents...

Former Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy, President of U of Winnipeg, Initiates Programming to...

Howard Morry and Ab Freig photo by Rhonda Spivak Jim Carr, Osama Abu Zeid, Howard Morry and Ab Freig of the Arab Jewish Dialogue at the University of Winnipeg photo by Rhonda Spivak Osama Abu Zeid, who fought...

Richard Perle: Embarrassment White House Waffling on Aid to Libya Rebels

http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/RichardPerle-Libya-gadhafi-moammar/2011/03/07/id/388649 White House spokesman Jay Carney today brushed aside press reports that the United States had asked Saudi Arabia to arm rebels in Libya so they could battle special forces troops loyal to Col. Moammar...

An Analysis of the Current U.S. Policymaking Process

By Barry Rubin The Obama administration has a major internal split. The problem is that the people most qualified to be heard and who have the better understanding of the situation are being ignored. The reasons...

The New Middle East

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=210724 If the mullahs aren’t overthrown, the New Middle East will be a very dark and dangerous place. A new Middle East is upon us and its primary beneficiary couldn’t be happier. In a speech Monday in the...

Analysis: The UN Human Rights Council

This story involves the UN Human Rights Council, The Council, you must understand, is not a two-bit operation. It has sizeable headquarters in Geneva: ~~~~~~~~~~ Reversing the policy of his predecessor, George Bush, who shunned the Council,...

My Optimism About the New Arab Revolt

Unprecedented convulsions across the Middle East, from Morocco to Iran, prompt three reflections: First, these rebellions fit into the context of a regional chessboard, what I call the Middle East cold war. On one side...

Our World: The West’s proxy war against the Jews

By focusing attention on Israel and its crimes, Europeans, American admirers ignore Islamic war against Israel, global jihad. It was a stunning moment of moral clarity. As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the...

The Great Myth of Palestinian Statehood: Arabs’ revolutionary awakening belies Western conventional wisdom in...

Since Sept. 11, 2001, American neoconservatives have forcefully argued that the combination of economic stagnation, rapid demographic growth, lack of upward social mobility, and political repression in most Arab countries was a breeding ground...