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Wartime Witch Hunt: Blaming Israel for the Iraq War

June 3, 2004 | Amb. Dore Gold

An insidious but steady drumbeat can be discerned over the last several weeks charging that the primary interest of the Bush administration in going to war against Saddam Hussein was to defend Israeli security interests. This newest wave is often more subtle but also far more mainstream than what was voiced in this regard just last year. Yet from Israel's perspective, by 2003 the Iraqi Army had been severely degraded in both military manpower and equipment.

The Age-Old Iberian Rivalry and the Jews

March 21, 2004 | Norman Berdichevsky

Psychiatrists use the term "sibling rivalry" to express the jealous and sometimes resentful feelings between brothers and sisters in the same household and apparently this applies to nations as well as individuals. This rivalry has had the unintended consequence of benefiting the Jews on four major occasions - the temporary refuge offered by Portugal from 1492 to 1497, the Portuguese twenty-year moratorium on the activities of the Inquisition in the early 1500s, the Spanish policy dur

Lessons from the Or Commission: Rethinking the Ideological and Religious Dimensions of the Israeli Arab Riots of October 2000

February 1, 2004 | Dr. Dan Diker

In mid-September 2000, two weeks before Ariel Sharon's Temple Mount visit and the outbreak of widespread Israeli Arab violence, Israeli Knesset member Abdel Malik Dehamshe told a meeting of the Supreme Monitoring Committee of the Israeli Arab Leadership that "the Arab public is on the verge of a new, massive, and popular intifada.

Undermining the War on Terrorism: The Role of Yasser Arafat and the Syrian Regime

October 19, 2003 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad

Combating Terrorist Financing: Where the War on Terror Intersects the “Roadmap”

August 14, 2003 | Matthew Levitt

Iran after the Iraq War

July 23, 2003 | Dr. Ephraim Sneh

U.S. Middle East Policy and Iran’s Politico-Economic Development

July 15, 2003 | Mordechai Abir

Anti-Semitism and Terrorism on the Internet: New Threats

June 16, 2003 | Abraham Cooper

Towards Aqaba: Challenges Facing Israel

June 3, 2003 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland

Russia and Iran’s Nuclear Program

April 28, 2003 | Dr. Uzi Arad

Israel’s Strategy after the Iraq War

April 16, 2003 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

Beyond Iraq: Missile Proliferation in the Middle East

March 25, 2003 | Dr. Uzi Rubin

Hizballah’s Threat to Regional Security

March 16, 2003 | Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi

Deterrence in the Era of Terrorism and Non-Conventional Weaponry

February 9, 2003 | Dan Meridor

Sunni and Shiite Terrorist Networks: Competition or Collusion?

December 18, 2002 | Lenny Ben-David