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News Analysis
Lest anyone have mistakenly imagined that my last posting about hope http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4180&q=1 (which certainly exists now !) signaled a whole new ballgame, with problems instantaneously diminished on all fronts, I state unequivocally that I...
News Analysis
First, a critique of an article -- "Are US Officials Understanding and Responding to the Middle Crisis? Ya Think?" -- by Barry Rubin, director of the Gloria Center.
As to that "Ya think?" Rubin explains:...
How Has U.S. Policy Toward Hamas and the Gaza Strip Turned Around 360 Degrees?
A reader asks what I meant when I wrote:
"Should I mention the total reversal of U.S. policy on Hamas from trying to undermine that radical Islamist group's rule in the Gaza Strip to believing...
THE NETHERLANDS, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE 2010 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
The Netherlands is a fascinating test case of how Middle Eastern factors--immigration, foreign policy issues--affect European politics. These questions have become highly partisan ones, with the left side and right side of the spectrum...
News Analysis
A recent column, "Just Knock It off," by Tom Friedman, writing in the NY Times. refers to Israel as a "spoiled child" for not acceding to Obama's demands for a continuation of the freeze.
Israel,...
UNRWA as an Obstacle to Peace: THE GENETIC REFUGEE
The United Nations wants very much to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
They want that so badly, that Israel just can’t seem to get off the agenda in the subcommittees and the leaders’ speeches.
Paradoxically, UNRWA-a sub-agency...
Four questions for Mahmoud Abbas:PA president needs to explain his duplicitous behavior
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and historian Harold Brackman is a consultant to the center.
In conjunction with his appearance at the U.N. General Assembly and meeting with President...
The Hamas Threat to Murder Gilad Shalit: Analysis
email: mkedar@mail.biu.ac.il
Dr. Mordechai Kedar (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan U.) Served for 25 years in IDF Military Intelligence specializing in Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups and the Syrian domestic arena.
This time the message is...
Incisive moments on a family trip : TO ISRAEL AND EGYPT …TO CELEBRATE MY...
My extended family returned recently from a trip to Israel and Egypt to celebrate our younger son's Bar Mitzvah. We are grateful and blessed that our dream trip was realized. We marked Noah’s becoming...
Competing World Views Tear A “Peace Process” to Pieces
The U.S. announcement inviting Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for direct talks shows quite clearly, though unintentionally, why the talks will fail.
Special Envoy George Mitchell explains:
"We are all well aware that there remains...
