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Will Israel's Fear Prompt an Attack on Iran? - Yoel Marcus, Haaretz

We won't deny there is a sense of disquiet, not to say fear, among the public about Iran becoming a nuclear power and what our response might be. In a world that invests so much in...

Momentum Grows for an Israeli Strike on Iran - The Economist

IS IT all part of a carefully calibrated campaign of bluff and rumour intended to support tightening sanctions and bring Iran to the negotiating table, or is the ground really bein...

The Struggle for Netanyahu's Soul - Andrew Wilson, World Policy Blog

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been struggling. He is torn between his propensity toward unilateralism and the need for wider international engagement to deal with...

Israel's Old Peace Is Dead - Ari Shavit, Haaretz

First the old peace was lightly wounded. After Israel gave the Palestinians most of Gaza, the first bus blew up at Dizengoff Square. After Israel gave the Palestinians Nablus and R...

Still Time to Defuse Iran's Nuclear Crisis - Japan Times

Israel's leaders are making increasingly loud and worrisome comments about Iran's nuclear program. Israel sees Tehran's nuclear ambitions as an existential threat — a view th...

Israel Weighs War Against Iran and Hezbollah - Bruce Riedel, Daily Beast

The political implications of hitting Iran and Lebanon simultaneously are significant. Sympathy for Persian Iran may be limited in the Arab world, but sympathy for Arab Lebanon wou...

U.S. Must Back Israel Against Iran - Jack David, National Review

Events are conspiring to precipitate a cataclysmic confrontation with Iran. Time has nearly expired for international sanctions — even the so-called tough and crippling ones —...

Moves Toward a Palestinian Spring - Sydney Morning Herald

The potential benefits for the peace process of a unified Palestinian voice are obvious. Incoherence plays into the hands of those opposed to a national homeland for this long st...

Palestine Must Choose: Unity or Peace? - Jerusalem Post

So long as Hamas continues to hold to its commitment to violent struggle, refuses to recognize Israel and rejects past peace agreements, it will be impossible to develop formal t...

A Most Cynical Palestinian 'Union' - Amir Taheri, New York Post

Israel should be concerned, because the Palestinian accord may serve as a device for making Hamas acceptable to the outside world....

Israel Can't Take on Iran Alone - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

On Sept. 4, 2003, three Israeli air force F-15s flew low over the gates of the former death camp at Auschwitz. On the ground -- on the train tracks, in fact, leading to the gas ch...

Israel and Iran: Countdown to War - Benny Morris, The National Interest

Israel's strategy for the Iranian nuclear weapons program is working - but it's unlikely to solve the problem, or solve it in time....

The Biggest News from the Mideast Today - Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic

The most important news out of the Middle East is not the Hamas-PA Agreement 4.0 (or 5.0 or 6.0, who can remember?). For various reasons, it doesn't seem likely to work (you can ...

U.S. Reasonableness on Iran Run Amok - Richard Cohen, Washington Post

Where is the evidence to suggest that the men who now run Iran will slap their foreheads, say zowie (in Farsi) and conclude that they were wrong to pursue a nuclear weapons program...

An Unthinkable Conflict Between Iran, Israel - Patrick Smith, Fiscal Times

The guessing game as to whether sanctions imposed last month against Iran for its nuclear program will work is over. They are already working. This past week the Iranian foreign m...

Why Israel Is Right to Fear Iran - Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic

But since the worldwide conversation has turned again toward the alleged imminence of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, I asked Adam Chandler, the Goldblog Deputy-E...

Israel and Iran on Eve of Destruction - Niall Ferguson, Newsweek

It probably felt a bit like this in the months before the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israel launched its hugely successful preemptive strike against Egypt and its allies. Forty-five...

Iran Attack Could Fray U.S.-Israel Ties - Trudy Rubin, Philly Inquirer

A premature strike would jeopardize U.S. interests, while failing to achieve Israel's goal of destroying the Iranian program. The unintended consequences of such a strike could f...

Israel Won't Rest Until Hezbollah Annihilated - Con Coughlin, Telegraph

It is the front line of Israel’s deepening conflict with Iran, and beneath the snow-capped peaks of Mount Hermon the final preparations are taking shape for a conflict that prom...

A Good Double Standard on Israel - Chemi Shalev, West of Eden

The cover story of the New York Times Sunday Magazine this week was written by Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman and it gave a detailed summary of Israel’s strategy and motiva...

Netanyahu Won Likud Battle, But May Lose the War - Haaretz

Netanyahu has been chosen Likud leader for the fourth time, but Feiglin is emerging as the ruling party's true ruler. This bodes ill for Israel....

Israel's Iran Threats All Hype? - Flynt & Hillary Mann Leverett, Race 4 Iran

Today, The Washington Post’s David Ignatius devoted his column, see here, to growing concerns within the Obama Administration that “Israel will attack Iran militarily over th...

Israel's New Allies - Benny Morris, The National Interest

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit Greek Cyprus this month in what will be the first ever visit by an Israeli leader to the neighboring Mediterranean i...

Is Israel Preparing to Attack Iran? - David Ignatius, Washington Post

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. But his biggest worry is th...

Israel's Profound Choice on Iran - Chuck Freilich, Los Angeles Times

In the end it will come down to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His senior officials will make their cases, but he alone will have to make one of the most critical decisions inI...

Time for Israel to Separate Church, State - Uri Misgav, Haaretz

This religious steamroller, which is financed and operated by the state, constantly subverts its sovereign and democratic foundations, and meanwhile is really channeling it into ...

Hamas Hasn't Been Hurt by Syria's Fall - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post

Commentators claim that Turkey’s sponsorship of Hamas was necessitated by Iran’s abandonment of the terror group. Iran, it is claimed, cut Hamas off in August due to the Pale...

How Do States Act After They Get Nukes? - James Fearon, The Monkey Cage

All this talk about a possible US and/or Israeli preventive war against Iran got me wondering about the historical record concerning the conflict behavior of states after they acq...

Consequences of War for Saudi Arabia - Brian Downing, Asia Times

Saudi Arabian threats that its military could join a Western-led conflict with Iran heap more pressure on Riyadh's Shi'ite rival. However, the House of Saud could invite isolation ...

Israel Won't Attack Iran - Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

The radio superhero The Shadow had the power to “cloud men’s minds.” But nothing clouds men’s minds like anything that has to do with Jews or Israel. For many centuries, bi...

Arab Spring May Benefit Israel - Jonathan Schanzer, Jerusalem Post

To be sure, the Great Arab Revolt could still produce regimes that threaten Israel. But not yet....

Election Fever Grips Israel - Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times

His coalition is stable, but some think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek early elections to capitalize on his popularity before the U.S. presidential vote....

How to Prevent War With Iran - Joshua Pollack, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

The tightening of sanctions now urged by the United States seems, in part, like an attempt to head off Israeli action by applying enough pressure to get Iran to capitulate. Regar...

The Zionist Imperative - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post

European and American perfidy in dealing with Iran's nuclear weapons program apparently has no end. This week we were subject to banner headlines announcing that the EU has decided...

'Arab Spring' a Media Concoction - Jay Bushinsky, Jerusalem Post

One of the most perplexing aspects of the "Arab Spring" is that it does not relate in any way to Israel. There has been no discussion among its activists of accepting Israel's ex...

Don't Ignore Jews in Holocaust Memorial - Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post

By GPO Tomorrow marks the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army in the waning days of World War II. That ep...

If Assad Survives, Peace With Israel? - Daniel Freedman, Forbes

The outcome of the uprising in Syria has the potential to revolutionize Israel’s relations with her neighbors and turn the Middle East upside down for the better – if the c...

Will Israel Attack Iran? - Ronen Bergman, New York Times

As the Sabbath evening approached on Jan. 13, Ehud Barak paced the wide living-room floor of his home high above a street in north Tel Aviv, its walls lined with thousands of ...

Israel Only Western State to Enshrine Religion - Uri Misgav, Haaretz

Judaism has many faces. But the real issue is not religion, but the status it is granted. There is no other country in the Western world where the supremacy of religion is as bla...

Nuclear Iran Isn't an Existential Threat - Bruce Riedel, Daily Star

The danger of war is growing again over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Iran is rattling its sabers, the Republican presidential candidates and others are rattling theirs. But even if...

Who's Winning the Middle East? Islamists - Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

The West may misread the current atmosphere, but residents in the region know full well what’s going on. Nawal al-Saadawi, now 80 years old, is a unique figure in Egypt. She is a...

Israel & Palestine: Toddling to Talks About Talks - The Economist

Palestinians and Israelis are talking again - but have yet to decide what about....

Occupy AIPAC Next Step for Leftist Group - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

The so-called U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is organizing an Occupy AIPAC event set to coincide with the annual national conference in Washington, D.C. of the Ameri...

The Israel Lobby's Role in American Politics - Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

Our book may have helped open up a more fruitful debate on U.S. Middle East policy, and especially on the U.S.-Israel "special relationship," for the simple reason that we were poi...

I'm No Threat to Israel's Existence - Joe Klein, Swampland

Israel is in perilous place right now, more isolated than it has been in years. The Arab Spring has pretty much ended the cold peace with Egypt. It has ended the stable standoff wi...

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