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Israel’s Gaza Dilemma in the Aftermath of the War with Hizbullah

July 3, 2007 | Dr. Yuval Steinitz

If one sees one’s adversaries storing rockets and conducting a massive buildup of forces, the first thing one should expect is for them to use those forces. What we see in Gaza is similar to what we saw in Lebanon. Israel withdrew from Gaza over a year go, uprooting all the Israeli settlements, and since then Hamas and other terrorist organizations have been rapidly building up their forces.

Economic and Diplomatic Strategies for Isolating Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Regime

July 1, 2007 | Benjamin Netanyahu

In many ways, people are still fixated on a model of the Middle East that has now become obsolete. For the last quarter of a century we have been in the midst of a conflict with militant Islam, which seeks to assume power and deliver a corrective to the historical decline of Islam and the rise of the West. The first major victory was when the Iranian Ayatollah regime displaced the Shah in 1979.

The Risks to Regional Security from International Forces in Gaza

June 24, 2007 | Pinhas Inbari

With the total collapse of Fatah in Gaza and the territory’s takeover by Hamas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been giving serious consideration to the deployment of international forces in the Gaza Strip generally, and more specifically in the sensitive Philadelphi Corridor separating Gaza from Egyptian Sinai. A deeper look reveals that the international-forces idea is very dangerous with potentially grave results for Israel.

The Principles of Peacemaking

June 4, 2007 | Amb. Richard Holbrooke

The Territorial Clauses of Security Council Resolution 242

June 4, 2007 | Amb. Yehuda Z. Blum

Contextualizing Resolution 242

June 4, 2007 | Amb. Meir Rosenne

Introduction: Correcting the Record on Resolution 242

June 4, 2007 | Amb. Dore Gold

Israel’s Right to Secure Boundaries: Four Decades Since
UN Security Resolution 242: Preface

June 4, 2007 | Dr. Lars Hansel

Israel’s Right to Secure Boundaries: Four Decades Since UN Security Resolution 242

June 4, 2007

Components of Domestic Security in the Age of Global Jihadism

May 31, 2007 | Avi Dichter

The Growing Hamas-Al Qaeda Connection

May 17, 2007 | Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi

Strategic Lessons of the Winograd Commission Report

May 7, 2007 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

The Growing al-Qaeda Presence in the Hamas-Controlled Gaza Strip

May 1, 2007 | Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi

The Strategic Challenge of Gaza

April 19, 2007 | Yoav Galant

Russia’s New Middle Eastern Policy: Back to Bismarck?

March 20, 2007 | Ariel Cohen