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Iran’s Arms Supply to Hizbullah: International Dimensions
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Iran’s Arms Supply to Hizbullah: International Dimensions
In an exceptional political signal, a senior Israeli official contacted Mark Landler of the New York Times and explained that the Israeli government was determined to continue to prevent the transfer of advanced weapons to Hizbullah. The official, who remained ... Read More »
The Geopolitics of Israel’s Offshore Gas Reserves
The flow of natural gas from Israel’s Tamar reservoir in the Mediterranean to the Ashdod reception facility was inaugurated on March 30, 2013, ushering in a new era in Israel’s energy sector. Read More »
The Legal Basis of Israel’s Rights in the Disputed Territories
1. Upon Israel’s taking control of the area in 1967, the 1907 Hague Rules on Land Warfare and the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) were not considered applicable to the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) territory, as the Kingdom of Jordan, ... Read More »
European Settlements And Double Standards
Anyone flipping through cable television channels with his or her remote control has undoubtedly come across programs about British and other retirees from Northern Europe seeking to escape the harsh climate where they live Read More »
The Palestinian UN Upgrade: Setting Things Straight
The UN upgrade resolution has neither created a Palestinian state, nor did it grant any kind of statehood to the Palestinians. Read More »
New States Are Not Created in the UN
For now, Israel will have to take measured steps to deter Abbas from going further down the path of unilateralism. Read More »
Obama’s Second Term and Israel
But at the end of the day, the U.S.-Israeli relationship is based on common interests and shared values and those will continue to form the fabric of the ties between the two countries in the years ahead. Read More »
Rabin’s Last Knesset Speech
The principles outlined in his plan, moreover, have not lost their relevance for Israel 17 years later. Read More »
Is There a Secret US-Iran Agreement?
Whether the U.S.-Iranian contacts that were reported this week are being handled as back-channel negotiations, despite all the known pitfalls of this approach, or as formal secret talks, the Obama administration probably would have preferred that they not have been revealed at this precise time. Read More »
Benghazi’s Meaning for Israel and the Mideast
Clearly what happened in Libya did not stay a local phenomenon but radiated out to the entire region and beyond. Read More »
The Changing Mideast Power Structure
Ironically, Israel and the Arab states have growing mutual interests in seeing that their region is not dominated by either Turkey or Iran, but whether they can draw together to block these two powers remains to be seen. Read More »
Iran and Nuclear Deception
What is significant is that any future arrangement between the West and Iran must be based on an ironclad system of inspections, if such understandings are ever reached, given the role that outright deception continues to play in Iran’s diplomatic relations with the West. Read More »
The Palestinians’ Dubious UN Move
It is a strategy that will ultimately backfire for it will remind key players in the international community that the Palestinian Authority does not want a negotiated peace with Israel, leading the U.S. and even the EU to question why they should continue to invest in it at all. Read More »
Lessons for Israel from Captured Iraqi Nuclear Documents
But if the purpose of nuclear weapons in the hands of Israel’s enemies is to make it safe for them to return to the era of conventional wars, then Israel must make sure that it guarantees that at the end of the day it must not be forced to concede its most vital territorial assets based on the unfounded notion that they no longer matter in the nuclear era. Read More »
The Dangers of Accepting Iran as a Nuclear Threshold State
If this situation continues, it will become far harder in the future for any state to stop Iran’s determination to acquire nuclear weapons. Read More »