Obama Middle East Policy: Wrong Team, Wrong Ideas
http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/obama-middle-east-policy-wrong-team-wrong-ideas/
In the Middle East, to paraphrase President Barack Obama’s mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the dodo birds are coming home to roost.
At this moment, the administration’s policy team consists of CIA director John Brennan,...
46 years of “no”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4389460,00.html
At the end of August 1967, shortly after the Six Day War, the heads of Arab states held a special conference in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, where the three famous "Nos" were decided on:...
Israel’s Military Prepares For Rocket Strikes
Israel's military has been ordering equipment to defend against massive missile and rocket strikes. All of Israel's military services plan to receive equipment to defend bases and other facilities. They said much of the...
Samantha Power, defender of Israel?
http://www.martinkramer.org/sandbox/2013/06/samantha-power-defender-of-israel/
Samantha Power is now President Obama’s nominee for United States ambassador to the United Nations. In 2002, in the wake of the “Jenin massacre” libel, she famously called for a “mammoth protection force” for...
THE RISKS OF FOREIGN PEACEKEEPING FORCES IN THE WEST BANK
Israel’s Experience with International Peacekeepers During the 1967 Six-Day War, I was a soldier serving in Battalion 202 of the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
We entered the Gaza Strip from south...
Strategic Assessment, Volume 16 | No. 1 | April 2013
Contents
Leading from Behind: The “Obama Doctrine” and US Policy in the Middle East
Sanford Lakoff
Eleven Years to the Arab Peace Initiative: Time for an Israeli Regional Strategy
Ilai Alon and Gilead Sher
The Emergence of the Sunni...
June 6, 2013: Not Acceptable
http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/
On May 16, I had written about plans to establish a new Palestinian Arab city near Jericho, reportedly to be called Nu'aimah, which would house tens of thousands of residents and require the transfer...
Radical Islam Arrives in Ramallah
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3751/radical-islam-ramallah
What happened on Tuesday In Ramallah -- often referred to as the bastion of Palestinian secularism and moderation -- serves as a reminder that radical Islam has found its way to this West Bank...
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
http://jcpa.org/article/manipulating-international-law-as-part-of-anti-israeli-lawfare/
Vol. 13, No. 16 2 June 2013
Israel’s record of compliance with international law is remarkably strong. In a long series of decisions, the Israeli High Court has ordered the Israeli government, army, and security...
Happy Israel
http://www.danielpipes.org/12962/happy-Israel
In a typically maladroit statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry recently complained that Israelis are too contented to end their conflict with the Palestinians: "People in Israel aren't waking up every day...