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Europe and the Palestinians: What’s the Difference Between Ordinary Insanity and Middle East Policy Insanity?

What is the definition of Middle East policy insanity?… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Syrian-Iranian Show of Solidarity Masks Tensions over Iraq, Yemen and War with Israel

Assad resisted Iranian arguments for closer bilateral coordination in Iraq and Yemen and flatly rejected being drawn into a war between Iran and Israel… Continue reading

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Turkish Foreign Policy in Evolution

Turkish government representatives insist that they want to develop good ties in all directions… Continue reading

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Defending Israeli Democracy

U.S. Embassy cables leaked by Wikileaks in September exposed the ugly truth that self-described champions of Israeli democracy would… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: U.S. Discusses Goldstone Report with Senior Israeli Officials

A delegation met with senior Israeli officials in early January 2010 to discuss Israel’s response to the UN Goldstone Report… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: U.S. Discusses Operation Cast Lead Investigations with IDF

The meetings reviewed legal and operational issues related to IDF activities during Operation Cast Lead… Continue reading

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Binding and Non-Binding Agreements Pertaining to the Arab-Israeli Conflict

International law has played a central role in attempting to solve the Arab-Israel conflict… Continue reading

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Why Did Sarkozy and Obama “Dis” (Disrespect) Bibi?

During a conversation when they thought nobody was listening French President Nicholas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama said… Continue reading

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Turkey: in between Political Islam and the Military

This paper analyses the impact of domestic dynamics on its relations with Israel during the current AKP government and the RP led government in the 1990s… Continue reading

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Russia says military strike on Iran ‘very serious mistake’

On Monday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that a possible Israeli military strike against Iran… Continue reading

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Finnish delusions

Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has done it again… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Israeli Ambassador Traces His Problems to Erdogan

Erdogan simply hates Israel… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Turkish-Israeli Relations Continue to Sour

Turkish-Israeli bilateral relations remain strained… Continue reading

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Hizballah Leader Nasrallah: we can fight Israel without aid from Iran or Syria

Nasrallah assured Hizballah troops they are capable of fighting Israel without Iranian or Syrian help… Continue reading

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Whither the IDF?

It was a normal Shabbat afternoon in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood… Continue reading

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Azzam’s Genocidal Threat

Of the countless threats of violence, made by Arab and Palestinian leaders in the run up to and in the wake of the… Continue reading

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The Insanity of the Middle East: A Handy Guide

Every day in the Middle East, terrible things take place… Continue reading

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The simple truth: The Palestinians want it all

Media, “experts,” and governments finds it very hard to understand an amazing phenomena… Continue reading

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Israel’s Tenured Extremists

Israel is under assault from within and not just from the usual suspects… Continue reading

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Gilad Shalit: A pact signed in Jewish blood

No one denies the long suffering of the Schalit family… Continue reading

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Israel as the Dutch Republic in the Thirty Years War

A small country, its land reclaimed from a hostile nature, fights for survival against overwhelming odds for 80 years… Continue reading

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Strategic Notes on the Gilad Shalit Prisoner Exchange

There are some substantial misunderstandings on the nature of the Gilad Shalit exchange deal… Continue reading

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Gilad Shalit: Everyone’s Son

For the last five years I have tried not to think of Gilad Shalit… Continue reading

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Cyprus on the World Stage

Cyprus, an island near Turkey and Syria of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change… Continue reading

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Supreme Leader makes decision about Iran’s stance towards Abu Mazen’s plan: Palestine from the river to the sea

Last weekend the 5th International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada was held in Tehran… Continue reading