The False Religion of Mideast Peace And why I’m no longer a believer.

www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/04/19/the_false_religion_of_mideast_peace?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full On October 18, 1991, against long odds and in front of an incredulous press corps, U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin announced that Arabs and Israelis were being...

INTERVIEW WITH SPOKESMAN OF ISRAEL FOREIGN MINISTER TZIPPI LIVNI FOLLOWING LIVNI-ABBAS MEETING

On Monday night, Israel's Foreign Minister Tzippy Livni met with the Machmud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen. Abbas has two identities, both of which he inherited from his mentor, Yassir Arafat - as...

The Iran-Hamas Alliance: Threat and Folly

Perspectives Paper No. 28, May, 2007 www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives28.html Since the US invasion of Iraq, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran has taken on the behavior of a regional hegemon. Indeed, Ahmadinejad speaks and acts as if he is the...

Why FDI opposes the Hagel nomination

http://iran.org/news/2013_01_10-hagel.html FDI opposes the nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel to become the next Secretary of Defense. For the past 17 years, FDI has championed the pro-freedom movement in Iran, and has argued that helping Iranians to...

Proposed Palestinian State – US Asset or Liability?

1. THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSED PALESTINIAN STATE, AND ITS IMPACT ON REGIONAL STABILITY, TERRORISM AND AMERICAN INTERESTS AND VALUES are attested by the raging Palestinian civil war and by the track record of...

When Israel is forced to fire at missiles embedded in schools, clinics in South...

Israeli reconnaissance has documented thousands of missiles that have been planted & ready to fire from the cover of schools & medical clinics, strategically planted throughout Southern Lebanon. If and when Israel fires back at...

Appreciating the Candor of Nabil Shaath

Israel has no cause to be angry at the Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, who declared yesterday in Lebanon that the road map will bring the refugees from 1948 back from Beirut to Haifa....

NAKBA: The Palestinian Arabs Miss Their Opportunity…

As Israel celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with appropriate pomp and circumstance, the new Palestine Authority, the entity that rules all of the Palestinian Arab population in Gaza and 95% of their population on the...

Within the Framework of the “Rules of the Game”

Hizballah is liable to look for revenge by "selectively firing" Katyushas, attempting headline-grabbing attacks in southern Lebanon in the coming days or by concentrated attacks on IDF and SLA positions. The elimination of military leaders...

A Message of Accounting for Israel in the New Year

Tomorrow night begins Rosh Hashana. This is a time of accounting. We are bidden to do a heshbon nefesh -- a spiritual accounting. As a people, as well, we must do that accounting. Now especially,...