Why Israel is a rogue state [Gabriel Latner]
In October there was a debate in Cambridge; the proposition - "Israel is a rogue state". Gabriel Latner was the Cambridge University law student who was assigned by the Cambridge Union debating society to...
Demography vs. Demagoguery: Europe vs. Israel
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/02/25/demography-vs-demagoguery-europe-vs-israel/
People who predict population trends need to learn from weather forecasters: when your forecasts are wrong more than right, go home before they lock you at home.‎
Many who yell “demography” when discussing Israel’s future,...
Vive la Freeze!
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/20/vive_la_freeze_rouhani_diplomacy?page=0,0
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman is back in Geneva, making another go at an interim agreement between Iran and the so-called E3/EU+3. (That's "E3" as in three European countries: Britain,...
Shia-Sunni schism: A challenge to world peace
http://dawn.com/news/1057412/shia-sunni-schism-a-challenge-to-world-peace
The recent violence in Rawalpindi or the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut are not the only manifestations of the intra-Muslim sectarian discord. The inability of Muslims to settle a 7th century dispute...
Al-Ahram Weekly
Making Anti-Terrorism Global
by Jailan Halawi
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"Egypt's interior minister El-Adli seized the occasion of the Arab interior ministers' meeting in Amman to renew Egypt's call for an international conference on terrorism. The meeting, resolving to escalate...
Privately, Israelis are worried about fallout from attack
http://warrenswil.com/2013/08/30/israel-calmly-prepares-for-the-worst/
CONTRARY TO THE IMPRESSION one may get from reading U.S. media, Israelis, while calm, are worried about fallout on them from any U.S.-led strike against Syria.
Israel, alas, is used to violent conflict, both within...
End of Assad?
Iran and its proxy Hizbullah have been planning to take over Syria, a report said.
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs said Iran and Hizbullah held a secret summit in April 2013 to draft strategy...
Baker Hamilton Report Analyzed
Her Iraq Study Group report did more than merely live down to its advance billing. Its authors are now revealed to be as intellectually deficient as they are morally malodorous. Calling these people 'realists'...
THE MAVI MARMARA INCIDENT, RAFAH, AND EGYPT’S STEEL WALL
July 1, 2010
Tally Helfont is an FPRI research fellow. Her research
focuses on Middle East-related issues and radical Islamic
movements. She also instructs training courses on behalf of
K3 Enterprises in Civil Information Management to U.S.
Military Civil...
Some US Congressional leaders worry that Gaza pullout amounts to appeasement
Nobody in the Republican-controlled Congress wants to be seen as opposing the wishes of both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Bush administration. But quietly, the unilateral Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip...