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Towards Palestinian Elections: The Democracy of the Rifles

December 28, 2005 | Brig. Gen. (res.) Shalom Harari

Arafat was the cement that held all the Palestinian factions together including, unofficially, the Muslim factions. This cement has now disappeared. All the divisions that we see in Palestinian society today, that have been there all along, have reemerged. He was able to control both the Fatah outsiders who came from Tunis, and those who were in the territories during the first intifada.

The Chabad Lubavitch Movement: Filling the Jewish Vacuum Worldwide

December 15, 2005 | Prof. Samuel Heilman

The influence of the Chabad Lubavitch movement in the Jewish world has greatly increased over the past decades. The seventh Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), who died without a successor - and is considered by part of the Chabad Hasidim as the Messiah - was in the 1950s at the origins of the present international outreach campaign.

Will the Next Generation of Palestinians Make Peace with Israel?

December 1, 2005 | Michael Sussman, Justus Reid Weiner

A peace agreement can only successfully end a conflict if it enjoys underlying, wide-ranging support from its respective populations. In particular, past efforts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace have failed to deal with, or even acknowledge, the deep-seated psychological mechanisms of partisanship that are endemic in Palestinian culture.

The World Oil Crisis: Implications for Global Security and the Middle East

October 16, 2005 | Gal Luft

The Murder of Musa Arafat and the Battle for the Spoils of Gaza

October 10, 2005 | Pinhas Inbari, Dr. Dan Diker

The ICJ Opinion on the Separation Barrier: Designating the Entire West Bank as “Palestinian Territory”

October 2, 2005 | Robbie Sabel

U.S.-Saudi Relations After Hurricane Katrina: Increased Oil Dependency and the Vulnerability of Saudi Oil Installations

September 18, 2005 | Mordechai Abir

Palestinian Christians: A Minority’s Plea for Rights Silenced by the Politics of Peace

September 12, 2005 | Justus Reid Weiner

After the London Bombings: Blair’s Israeli-Palestinian Detour from the Real Root Causes of Terrorism

September 1, 2005 | Amb. Dore Gold

Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society

August 29, 2005 | Justus Reid Weiner

Legal Acrobatics: The Palestinian Claim that Gaza is Still “Occupied” Even After Israel Withdraws

August 26, 2005 | Amb. Dore Gold

The Succession of Saudi King Abdallah, the Oil Market, and Regional Politics

August 3, 2005 | Mordechai Abir

Democratic Universality and Its Adversaries

August 1, 2005 | Joel Fishman

Are There Signs of a Jordanian-Palestinian Reengagement?

July 19, 2005 | Dr. Dan Diker, Pinhas Inbari

The Relationship Between International and Localized Terrorism

June 28, 2005 | Dr. Boaz Ganor