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Author: Lt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Lt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar served in IDF Military Intelligence for 25 years, specializing in Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups, and the Syrian domestic arena. Dr. Kedar teaches in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and is a research associate at the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies

Israel vs. Hamas – What’s New?

January 3, 2024 | Lt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Dr. Dan Diker, Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch
JCPA Daily Wartime Briefing
The Role of Radical Islamic Groups in Israel: Implications for Israeli-Arab Coexistence

The Role of Radical Islamic Groups in Israel: Implications for Israeli-Arab Coexistence

March 20, 2009 | Lt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar
The core question is to whom does this country belong? According to the Arab narrative, this has been an Arab Islamic state since the days of Omar, the caliph who conquered the country in the seventh century. According to the Islamic approach, since Islam began in 622 CE, all of history before that time has no meaning or significance.