The Syrian Crisis and the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry

Dr. Benedetta Berti is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, a Young Atlanticist at the Atlantic Council, and the coauthor of Hamas and Hezbollah:...

What Does Israel Do if Obama Is Reelected?

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/09/21/what-does-israel-do-if-obama-is-reelected/ “Don’t Panic” - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I’m going to try to analyze what Israeli strategy might look like if Obama were to be reelected. I don’t want to write a...

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Thus Passes the Glory of the World

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/sic-transit-gloria-mundi-thus-passes-the-glory-of-the-world/2012/09/23/0/?print In the past, the United States was the "glory of the world", mainly after it came to the aid of Europe in the Second World War, the victory over Germany and Japan in 1945,...

Hizbullah Threatens to Strike Strategic Israeli Targets in Response to an Attack on Iran’s...

http://jcpa.org/article/hizbullah-threatens-to-strike-strategic-israeli-targetsin-response-to-an-attack-on-irans-nuclear-facilities/ Vol. 12, No. 22 25 September 2012 The intensive public discourse in Israel about an approaching attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities has led Iran and Hizbullah to ramp up their threats of harsh retaliation. The...

Preparing to fend off attack just another day for Israelis

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx What does it feel like to be surrounded by countries intent on wiping you off the face of the map? How do you cope with daily incitement of hate, challenges to your legitimacy, threats...

Golda Meir’s Doctrine After Munich: Death Sentence For PLO Leaders Responsible…Could this be applied...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2862&sec= 1&title=David_Bedein:_Golda_Meir%27s_Doctrine_After_Munich:_Death_ Sentence_For_PLO_Leaders_Responsible...Could_this_be_applied_ today_to_Abbas_for_His_Role_in_financing_Munich_Massacre Golda Meir's Doctrine After Munich: Death Sentence For PLO Leaders...Could this be applied today to Abbas for His Role in financing Munich Massacre? by David Bedein There has been a surge of interest in Israel, to...

Libya: Not Just a Tragedy But the Start of Another Endless War for America

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/09/libya-not-just-tragedy-but-start-of.html Yahoo highlighted two "amazing" stories shortly after the murder of five American diplomats in Libya and the attack on the U.S. embassy in Egypt that tell us a lot about the intersection between American...

Canada’s moral leadership

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2534 President Shimon Peres was right to laud Canada as a “moral role model” for the nations of the world. Commenting on Ottawa’s Friday decision to cut diplomatic relations with Iran, Peres said, “Canada has...

Sometimes it is better the devil you know

http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/2012/09/12/sometimes-it-is-better-the-devil-you-kno.html According to 71-year-old French surgeon, Jacques Beres, who co-founded Doctors without Borders and who has recently returned to France from two weeks in the city of Aleppo, Syria’s main commercial center, the rebels there...

Living in the twilight zone

What does it feel like to be surrounded by countries intent on wiping you off the face of the map? How do you cope with daily incitement of hate, challenges to your legitimacy, threats...