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Confronting Israeli Realities with Dutch Ones

September 26, 2006 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In the past few years Ayaan Hirsi Ali has become known worldwide. In 2006, Reader’s Digest gave her the European of the Year award and said she best embodied Europe’s contemporary values. Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia in 1969 and granted asylum in the Netherlands in 1992. She left for the United States in spring 2006 after she had to resign from the Dutch parliament because of a minister’s ruling that she had never obtained the Dutch nationality. Under parliamentary pressure, the minister’s deci

Germany and Israel: Between Obligation, Taboo, and Resentment

September 25, 2006 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Gerhard Schröder, too young to be part of Nazi Germany, was the first German chancellor who did not seem to labor under the historical cloud that preoccupied all his predecessors from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Kohl. Its three components were: inherited guilt feelings toward the Jews, a sense of moral obligation toward Israel, and, especially under Adenauer in the early days of the Federal Republic, the sense that it was good realpolitik to be on the side of the young Jewish state.

Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism in Sweden

September 25, 2006 | Amb. Zvi Mazel

Sweden claims to be a superdemocracy, an example of enlightenment and openness. People with such pretensions should be a little more knowledgeable about Israel, another democracy after all. And yet the average Swedish citizen does not know more than what the country’s shallow media tells him. This is often anti-Israeli, and the public is influenced by it.

Israel, The European Commission, Europe, and the Netherlands

September 22, 2006 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Anti-Israeli Bias in the European Parliament and Other European Union Institutions

September 1, 2006 | Rijk van Dam

Referral of Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the Charge of Incitement to Commit Genocide

August 27, 2006 | Justus Reid Weiner, Amb. Meir Rosenne, Prof. Elie Wiesel, Amb. Dore Gold, Irit Kohn, Eytan Bentsur, Dan Naveh

Countdown to Conflict: Hizballah’s Military Buildup and the Need for Effective Disarmament

August 20, 2006 | Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira

Europe and the War in Lebanon

August 16, 2006 | Amb. Freddy Eytan

The U.S.-French Draft UN Resolution on Lebanon: Strengths and Weaknesses

August 7, 2006 | Amb. Dore Gold

Cyberhate, Antisemitism, and Counterlegislation

August 1, 2006 | Michael Whine

Hamas’ Determination to Perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Critical Role of Hate Indoctrination

August 1, 2006 | Justus Reid Weiner, Noam Weissman

Is a Sustainable Cease-Fire in Lebanon Realistic?

July 30, 2006 | Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg

An International Force in Lebanon: Advantages and Disadvantages

July 25, 2006 | Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

Survey: Israeli Public Opposed Further Disengagement Even Before the War with Hizballah

July 23, 2006 | Dr. Yechiel M. Leiter

The Opening Round of Iran’s War Against the West

July 17, 2006 | Amb. Dore Gold