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Is Egypt Heading toward a Military Regime?
U.S. Policy
The Importance of the Eisenhower Debate
Israel should stay clear of the internal American debate over the candidacy of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be the next defense secretary. Read More »
F-16s to the Muslim Brotherhood
The latest American crisis with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president, Muhammad Morsi, came out into the open on January 14, 2013, when the New York Times published a report on its front page that three years earlier he used blatantly anti-Semitic motifs for describing “Zionists” as “…bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.” Read More »
Iranian Policy Toward Direct Nuclear Talks with the U.S.
Iran will not hasten to renew the dialogue with the United States, and will want to engage in such talks only from a position of strength. 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 »
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 »
Jerusalem and US Politics
While seeking bipartisan backing for its positions in the U.S., Israel should openly state its position on vital issues, like the future of Jerusalem, if they come up during the present U.S. political campaign 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 »
Will America Act Against Iran?
Thus while the U.S. unquestionably has the military power to prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the world’s most dangerous states, or organizations, repeatedly successive administrations have been reluctant to use their vast military capabilities for that purpose because of the international circumstances they have faced. Read More »
Meanwhile, in Jordan…
The U.S. and its allies must have a strategic interest in protecting Jordan’s economic stability and in assuring that it has the full support of the Gulf states, which together are ultimately facing the very same threat from the east. Read More »