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Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
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The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
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Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
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With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
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Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
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With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
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Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »
Who Brought Iran Close to a Nuclear Bomb? The Focal Point of Rowhani’s and Jalili’s Election Propaganda
With a few days remaining before the June 14 presidential elections in Iran, the most fraught, sensitive issue in the campaign concerns Iran’s foreign policy – its relations with the West in general and the nuclear talks in particular. Read More »
Understanding Israeli Interests in the E1 Area: Contiguity, Security, and Jerusalem
The Israeli building program known as E1 (East-1), situated between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, has been on the Israeli and world agenda for twenty years. It is subject to a severe Israeli-Palestinian dispute and prompts strong international
opposition. As a result, it has yet to be implemented. Read More »
The Arab world fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, explained that the diversion of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon to Syria to take part in the civil war was part of a “Safavid” plan for the Middle East region. Read More »
Iranian Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Calls for Enrichment to 100 Percent
The Iranian nuclear file is one of the burning issues in the current presidential campaign. Two candidates, Saeed Jalili and Hasan Rowhani, have served as Iranian negotiators with the West and flaunt this fact in their election propaganda. Jalili currently ... Read More »
Towards a Constitutional Crisis in Egypt?
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on June 2, 2013, that the laws governing the election of members of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (Egypt’s upper house) were illegal and invalid.1 President Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ... Read More »
Manipulating International Law as Part of Anti-Israeli “Lawfare”
Israel’s detractors manipulate international law to invent rules that are applied only to Israel and not to other states. Read More »
How Russia Undercuts Itself With The S-300
Supply of the S-300 by Moscow will create an air defense umbrella over Syria allowing Damascus to carry out weapons transfers to Hezbollah. Read More »
The Al-Dura Affair and Its Implications for Morality and Ethics in France
The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair should be taught in journalism schools throughout the world. Read More »
Iranian Forces on the Golan?
On May 26, 2013, the Iranian regime officially began to recruit Basiji fighters to fight with Assad’s troops in Syria. The Basij are the popular militia of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and serve as a reserve formation. Known ... Read More »
Conflict Resolution through Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East
Peace cannot emanate only from documents signed by leaders alone, but from mutual good faith and credibility among the peoples for whom the agreements are signed. Read More »
The Demise of Middle East Borders
A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Read More »
Rowhani and the Iranian Elections: Dore Gold Debates Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on BBC Radio4 Morning Program
Click to hear the debate June 14, 2013 JOHN HUMPHRYS: I’m joined by Jack Straw, former foreign secretary, and by Dr Dore Gold, former foreign policy advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. Jack Straw, how should we now be treating, ... Read More »
Ethiopian Dam over Blue Nile Raises Specter of Conflict with Egypt
President Morsi threatened that “all options were open” if Ethiopia diverts the Blue Nile. Read More »