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Israel’s Forgotten Rights in Jerusalem

May 24, 2009 | Amb. Dore Gold

To protect Jerusalem, Israeli diplomacy must reestablish the unification of the city as a clear national goal, and not abandon the subject of Jerusalem exclusively to Palestinian spokespeople.

The Second Lebanon War: From Territory to Ideology

August 30, 2008 | Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon

The 2006 Israel-Hizbullah war, in which the northern third of Israel came under 34 days of fire by 4,2281 Iranian and Syrian rockets, should be a clear illustration that the hostility and aggression that Israel faces in the Middle East does not arise from Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank, or from Palestinian statelessness.

Hizbullah’s Triumph: The Long-Term Implications of Prisoner Exchanges

July 15, 2008 | Justus Reid Weiner, Diane Morrison

By exchanging prisoners with the proxy organizations as if they were law-abiding states, Israel can be seen as upgrading the status of the organizations’ unlawful combatants from terrorists and war criminals. Such exchanges afford them the same rights as lawful soldiers, without demanding from their leaders the reciprocal obligations. At the same time, Israel downgrades the rights of its own captured soldiers by overlooking the organizations’ systematic depravation of POW rights.

How Will the IDF Confront Regional Threats? – A Strategic Overview

March 16, 2008 | Maj.-Gen. Ido Nehushtan

Iran Is Building “Hamastan” in Gaza

March 11, 2007 | Brig. Gen. (res.) Shalom Harari

Can a Conventional Army Vanquish a Terrorist Insurgency?

January 1, 2007 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

Hizballah in Lebanon: The War Was Not Supposed to End This Way

September 1, 2006 | Chuck Freilich

A Strategic Assessment of the Hizballah War: Defeating the Iranian-Syrian Axis in Lebanon

July 19, 2006 | Dan Diker, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

Teaching Morality in Armed Conflict: The Israel Defense Forces Model

March 21, 2006 | Lt. Col. Amos Guiora

Shalom Freedman on Rabin and Israel’s National Security by Efraim Inbar

October 1, 2005 | Shalom Freedman

The Vanunu Myths and Israeli Deterrence Policy

April 19, 2004 | Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg

The Growing Threat to Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge

December 11, 2003 | Dr. Yuval Steinitz

Balancing IDF Checkpoints and International Law: Teaching the IDF Code of Conduct

November 19, 2003 | Lt. Col. Amos Guiora

Deterrence in the Era of Terrorism and Non-Conventional Weaponry

February 9, 2003 | Dan Meridor

The Recruitment of Children in Current Palestinian Strategy

October 1, 2002 | Justus Reid Weiner