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Mordechai Nisan on A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War

October 21, 2009 | Dr. Mordechai Nisan

The Political Paradigm of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and its Flaws A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark Tessler, second edition, Indiana University Press, 2009, 1018 pp. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War by James L. Gelvin, new edition, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 296 pp. Reviewed by Mordechai Nisan

Managing Conflict: Can Religion Succeed Where Politics Has Failed? An Israeli Addresses a Global Peace Forum in Malaysia

November 1, 2006 | Dr. Ben Mollov

Ultimately, religion defines identity among Jews and Arabs in the Middle East, and is the basic element upon which the Jewish attachment to the Land of Israel is based. In parallel, the Arab political awakening and worldview also draws its own attachment to the same land from religious sources.

Europe’s Mindset Toward Israel as Accentuated by the Lebanon War

October 1, 2006 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

The European Union has for many years announced its ambition to be a global political actor - to act as a counterweight to the United States on the world scene. The summer war in Lebanon could have been a major opportunity for the EU to show that it could move rapidly to stop a conflict in its tracks by offering a solution in which it would make a major contribution.