July 2011

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –With  extraordinary economic problems and its public in a very bad mood, the Government of Greece seemed an unlikely hero in the saga of the Hamas-organized flotillas. But Greece is, indeed, the hero. While several countries – including the United States – denounced the idea of boats breaking legal Israeli-Egyptian

By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — At the beginning of the twentieth century the whole of Europe was in a state of flux. New ideas and new ideals were making themselves felt and the youth were bent on changing the old and ringing in the new. All doctrines and philosophies were the rage

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Years of waiting–though leaks have been plentiful–have just about ended with the word from the international tribunal that four Hizballah officials, including the group’s deputy military commander Mustafa Badreddine were involved in killing Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005. Yet Hizballah is now the leading force

By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–In the last 65 years, a dozen U.S. presidents, Democrats and Republicans and  more than a dozen  Israeli Prime Ministers from the Left and from the Right repeatedly offered substantive concessions to the Arabs in order to reach a modus vivendi for a peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews