Syria

On Thursday,German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer telephoned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Fischer was excited, and told Sharon: "I spoke with Bashar Assad. He told me that Syria has always been against terror. You have...

Yuval Diskin, head of the Shin Bet, reported to the Cabinet yesterday that the smuggling of weapons from Egypt to Gaza is increasing. Egypt, I remind you, in case you have forgotten, has a...

When the first revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt occurred, the initial responses from Israel appeared distinct from those in the West. While European and American reactions were enthusiastic, a whiff of skepticism, if not...

Russia has established and operated an advanced intelligence listening post along the Israeli-Syrian frontier. Israeli security sources said Russia has installed advanced equipment for signals intelligence collection in Syria's Golan Heights. The sources said the...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/01/a-totally-new-american-foreign-policy.html Something very bad is happening with the U.S. foreign policy debate. Aside from all of the specific problems and bad appointments, the whole discussion is being conducted on the wrong assumptions and context. There is...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/01/31/palestine_israel_peace_bomb_demographics One of the key arguments of Israel's "peace camp" is that, without a two-state solution, the state faces a "demographic time-bomb." The contention is that perpetuating Israeli control over the growing Arab population of...

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/129086/wikileaks-insight-into-arafat Of the 1.7 million declassified State Department cables-some 700 million words long-that WikiLeaks put online this week as part of the Kissinger Cables, dating from 1973-1976, one records Maryland Sen. Charles “Mac” Mathias’ April...

Defense Minister Peretz has come out in favor of a formal commission of inquiry with regard to the war, which puts him in opposition to Olmert and definitely strains the coalition. Look for a...

The Norwegian Israel Center (NIS) is a voluntary politically independent documentation and resource center that works at promoting a more balanced view towards Israel, and therefore fights antisemitism. At the same time, we try...

A cold war is "the key to understanding the Middle East in the 21^st century." So argue Yigal Carmon and three of his colleagues at the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) in a recent study, "An Escalating Regional Cold War."They have identified a major confrontation that the media has somehow missed - and which is the more important for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's just having been re-designated as president of Iran.