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Who Will Win the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Arab Street: Turkey or Iran?

December 16, 2010 | Harold Rhode

Shiite Iran is appealing to the Arab Sunni street by trying to co-opt the agenda of the Sunni masses - the existence of Israel and the sanctity of Jerusalem - neither of which are traditional Shiite issues. In doing so, Iran seeks to undermine the existing Arab Sunni regimes by going over the heads of their leaders. That is why almost all of the regimes in the region hate the Iranian regime more than they hate Israel.

The Gaza Flotilla: Facts and Official Reactions

September 15, 2010 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

The Gaza flotilla was a well-thought-out provocation against Israel. The flotilla was falsely presented as an enterprise of humanitarian aid to a needy population. If that were indeed the case the organizers would have accepted Israel's offer to dock the flotilla at the port of Ashdod.

Turkey: Between Atatürk’s Secularism and Fundamentalist Islam

May 9, 2010 | Harold Rhode

Today there is an internal battle among Turkish Muslims between forces that want to be part of the Western world and those that want to return Turkey's political identity to be based primarily on Islamic solidarity. But it isn't Ottoman Islam that these Islamist Turks seek to revive. Their Islam is more in tune with the fanatically anti-Western principles of Saudi Wahhabi Islam.

Syria and Turkey: Walking Arm in Arm Down the Same Road?

December 1, 2009 | David Schenker

Energy as an Element of Israel’s National Security

October 26, 2008 | Brig.-Gen. (res.) Binyamin Ben-Eliezer

Turkey: Between the Iranian-Syrian Axis, Israel, and the West

November 20, 2007 | Aydan Kodaloglu

The Turkish Strategic Challenge After the July Elections

August 9, 2007 | Ariel Cohen

Turkey’s Elections and Israel

December 30, 2002 | Efraim Inbar

Russian Policy Toward the Middle East Under Yeltsin and Putin

September 2, 2001 | Dr. Robert O. Freedman

Defining Limits on Religious Expression in Public Institutions: The Turkish Dilemma

October 30, 1999 | Dr. George E. Gruen

Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism

February 16, 1997 | Dr. Jacob M. Landau

Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism

February 16, 1997 | Dr. Jacob M. Landau

Turkish-Israeli Relations: Crisis or Continued Cooperation?

July 15, 1996 | Dr. George E. Gruen

Turkey, Israel and the Peace Process

February 1, 1993 | Dr. George E. Gruen