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A Dangerous Law Advances in Israel - Haaretz

In a flash, and without any prior publication on the Ministerial Committee for Legislation's schedule, the Knesset committee might approve the coalition's anti-terror bill today. I...

The Double Standard Aimed at Israel - Dan Calic, Ynet News

Once again we hear voices crying out that Israel is a "racist" state. Should we be surprised? Not really. Why is it that every other group of people can have at least one national ...

Israel Must Address Intolerance - Jerusalem Post

In recent weeks, several incidents have reminded us of disturbing undercurrents in Israeli society. At the end of May, discrimination against Arabs at the Superland amusement park ...

The Offhand Conquest of Jerusalem - Abraham Rabinovich, New York Times

The Israeli paratroopers poking through a storeroom filled with weapons on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount that day — June 7, 1967 — let out a small cheer when they came...

Israel Lobby Should Lobby Israel - Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect

How much influence can Jewish organizations in the United States have on Netanyahu's decisions? No one knows. But a message from the AJC or the Presidents Conference that there's a...

France's Blood Libel Against Israel - Guy Milliere, Gatestone Institute

On September 30, 2000, at the beginning of the Palestinian terrorist offensive against Israel called since then the "second intifada," a particularly violent clash took place at th...

Racist Attacks Against Arabs on Rise in Israel - Julia Heyer, Der Spiegel

The horror is etched on her face and caught on camera. Revital Wolkov is sitting in the driver's seat of her white Toyota, staring over her right shoulder, through the broken rear ...

I'm Proud of Those Lewd IDF Girls - Liel Leibovitz, Tablet Magazine

Of course, the soldiers’ decision to disrobe was not a military act but a bit of fooling around. And yet it is oddly more of an embodiment of the IDF’s true spirit than...

Israel Lives the Joseph Story - Thomas Friedman, New York Times

How would you like to be an Israeli strategist today? Now even Turkey is in turmoil as its people push back on their increasingly autocratic leader. I mean, there goes the neighbor...

Israel Is Living in Delusion - Haaretz

The intensive efforts of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to advance the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are coming to an end. In Kerry’s speech to the American Jewish Committ...

Will Erdogan Lash Out at Israel Again? - Jerusalem Post

Turkish domestic troubles are guaranteed to make PM Erdogan all the more nervous, confrontational....

Lebanon Inches Toward Disaster - Rajan Menon, The National Interest

It has been Lebanon’s unenviable fate to be the playground for the deadly games of its more powerful and rivalrous neighbors. What has made Lebanon particularly vulnerable to the...

Putin's Missiles Will Change the Mideast Game - Michael Bell, Globe & Mail

The S-300 system is intended by Russia to restore Syrian sovereignty over its airspace, which it had de facto ceded to Israel. The system is intended to discourage Israeli air atta...

Syria's Many (Bad) Variables for Israel - Paul Rogers, openDemocracy

Israel's long search for impregnable security in the region has in its own view been aided by the stability of neighbouring autocracie. Egypt under Hosni Mubarak, Jordan under King...

A Breakthrough in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict? - CS Monitor

In a surprise opportunity for peace, a few hundred business leaders in Israel and Palestinian areas join up to demand their governments make a deal. Unlike other grassroots efforts...

The Palestinian Excuse Machine - Jonathan Tobin, Contentions

Secretary of State John Kerry’s effort to revive the Middle East peace process hasn’t accomplished much so far and isn’t likely to do better in the future. But ...

Can the U.S. Bribe Its Way to Mideast Peace? - Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

Kerry has reportedly assembled a $4 billion investment package for the Palestinian Authority, designed to improve economic conditions in the West Bank and demonstrate to the Palest...

Did Obama Target Israeli Groups? - Rick Richman, Commentary

A Wall Street Journal editorial notes the Obama administration gave special scrutiny to the tax-exempt status of certain pro-Israel organizations and cites a front-page, 5,000 word...

Commentary Wrong About Olmert-Abbas - Bernard Avishai, Open Zion

Both Olmert and Abbas emphasized to me that neither side rejected the plan; both understood that they had the basis for a continuing negotiation. Abbas made clear, as did Saeb Erek...

The Elephant in the West Bank - Yitzhak Laor, Haaretz

Israel's political culture revolves around one’s approach to the occupied territories. This means discussing the fate of millions of people whose voices are unheard, beasts o...

It's Not the Palestinian Economy, Stupid - David Horovitz, Times of Israel

No, he hadn’t cut a peace deal — though he ad-libbed a fairly dumb joke about having an agreement with him if the previous speakers, Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, were minded...

Can the U.S. Buy Moderation in the Mideast? - Barry Rubin, PJ Media

Can the Obama administration turn radicals into moderates with money? Way back in 1979, shortly after the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said that people in the W...

Statesmen Stuck in a Mideast Time Warp - Evelyn Gordon, Contentions

While visiting Israel this weekend, Secretary of State John Kerry said that everywhere he goes – Europe, the Gulf States, China, Japan, even New Zealand and Brazil – the firs...

Why America's Peace Push Makes Sense - Haviv Rettig Gur, Times of Israel

Never mind the slim chance of success. The U.S. knows that, in an increasingly volatile Middle East, the real benefit is in the process....

Why Camp David Changed Nothing - Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy

In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat visited Israel, where he paid a historic visit to the Knesset -- the first by a reigning Arab leader -- and told Israeli parliamentarians...

How to Handle Do-It-Yourself Jihadists - Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail

The bad news is that even a hyper-vigilant society will not be able to head off all the self-made jihadis in the world. The good news is that the terror networks have largely been ...

What Mideast Crisis? Israelis Have Moved On - Ethan Bronner, NY Times

For years, conventional wisdom has held that as long as Israel faces the external challenge of Arab — especially Palestinian — hostility it will never come to terms wit...

How Hafez Assad Saved Israel - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post

The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certai...

Israel Finding Itself Drawn into Syria's War - Jodi Rudoren, NY Times

For more than two years, Israeli leaders have insisted they had no intention of intervening in the civil war raging in neighboring Syria, but they vowed to stop sophisticated weapo...

Syria and Israel's Strategic Value - Evelyn Gordon, Contentions

The ongoing debate about whether America should intervene in Syria highlights an important point about Israel’s unique value as a U.S. ally: It is the only American ally in the...

Peace Process Deja Vu All Over Again - Rashid Khalidi, Middle East Channel

Observing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to restart negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis one can't help but be struck by a sense of déjà vu. Kerry, who vi...

Israel Needs to Rethink Gun Control Policy - Jerusalem Post

The despicable act of violence perpetrated in Beersheba on Monday has sparked fresh calls for an evaluation of Israel’s gun control policy. Undoubtedly, the fact that Itamar...

Is Israel Having a Jewish Identity Crisis? - Haaretz

It's no accident that Israel, after having been burned by its fights with many of its American supporters, has refrained from pursuing the dispute over who is a Jew and which Jewis...

The Black Hole of Israeli Leadership - Uzi Baram, Haaretz

Israel has experienced many leadership crises in the past but even in periods of anger, frustration and vast disappointment with the leaders there was still hope....

Israel Deserves to Join the UN Security Council - New York Daily News

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, West Germany was twice a member and East Germany once held a chair. A unified Germany has been elected three times, most recently in 2011. And w...

Sunnis or Shias: Which Should Israel Fear More? - Barry Rubin, J'lem Post

There is a passionate, but somewhat academic debate over the following issue: Which is the greater threat, the Sunni Islamists (Egypt, Tunisia, Gaza Strip and perhaps soon to be Sy...

Why Turkey's Making Nice with Israel (Hint: Gas) - Jerusalem Post

It is becoming evident that a veiled agenda underpinned the recent Turkish willingness to consider a rapprochement with Israel....

Israel Caught Between U.S. and Russia - Amos Harel, Haaretz

The recent developments in Syria have been overshadowed by the direct clash of interests between the United States and Russia, in which Israel plays a minor, if inadvertent, role. ...

Israel's 'Shock and Shush' Raids Work - Riccardo Dugulin, Ynet News

During the last couple of weeks, the concept of “shock and shush” has been widely discussed. The Israeli strategy of conducting surgical strikes against top tier target...

Palestine Splits Arab Street and State - Rami Khouri, The Daily Star

An important but unclear aspect of the ongoing Arab uprisings has been how more democratic and legitimate Arab governments would impact on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Several incide...

Why Can't Palestinians Play Football with Israelis? - Gatestone Inst.

While Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was meeting in his office in Ramallah with Shelly Yacimovich, chairwoman of Israel's opposition Labour Party, his Fatah faction ...

Syria: Time for Israel to Reassess - Itamar Rabinovich, Times of Israel

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s brief trip to Russia on May 14 highlights the change that has recently taken place in Israel’s view of and policy toward the Syrian civil war...

The Next War: Six Global Hotspots to Watch - RealClearWorld

While the Middle East has a powerful claim on the world's attention (or at least Washington's), the world has no shortage of potentially explosive hotspots. Whether it's conflictin...

Israel Debates Which Side to Back in Syria - Jonathan Spyer, Tablet Mag

The civil war in Syria has led to a keen debate among the professional echelon tasked with advising policymakers in Israel. This debate has been reflected in a more subdued public ...

Why Asia Is Israel's New Frontier - Adelman & Romirowsky, Forbes

Many factors propelled Israel-Asian relations to the forefront. Historically, Asia largely lacks the anti-Semitism that was so prominent in Europe and also the Middle East. Geograp...

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