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The International Atomic Energy Agency and Israel: A Realistic Agenda

July 1, 2004 | Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg

There is no foundation for a change in Israel's policy of nuclear ambiguity under present circumstances, and the topic is not on the agenda. Under the terms of a 1969 agreement with the U.S. government, Israel has refrained from making any declarations about its nuclear weapons capability, or from testing devices. The threat to Israel has not diminished much in the past five decades and hatred of Israel in the Arab and Moslem worlds remains intense.

Durban’s Troubling Legacy One Year Later: Twisting the Cause of International Human Rights Against the Jewish People

August 20, 2002 | Irwin Cotler

The World Conference Against Racism in Durban was originally planned as a platform to focus on the world's underrepresented human rights causes. Yet what was supposed to be a conference against racism turned into a conference of racism against Israel and the Jewish people.

John Selden and the Biblical Origins of the Modern International Political System

April 27, 1994 | Avraham Berkowitz

John Selden, one of seventeenth century England's foremost jurists and legal scholars, wrote many monographs treating the interrelationship between the universe of the Hebrew Bible and that of contemporary Protestant Europe. As we demonstrate, Selden analogized relations among the states of Europe to relations among the biblical nations. Indeed, in defining and in applying the concept of sovereignty to the modern world, Selden relied heavily on the biblical ideal of artificial boundaries and separations in international relations, even locating the very origins of sovereignty in the biblical narrative's affirmation of the principle of boundaries.