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 […]
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Middle East
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
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release) — Thirty-four Americans and four crew members are in Athens set to sail on the American-flagged ship The Audacity of Hope. The ship is part of the “Freedom Flotilla II,” an international flotilla organized to violate Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, allegedly to deliver humanitarian aid. StandWithUs, an international
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Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–Now there is proof: Voting in elections is stressful, even to a point that it causes hormonal changes among voters. This new study, conducted by scholars from the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University in Israel, has found that the level of cortisol – a hormone released when a person is under pressure
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Middle EastBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA , Israel — In a major new development an Islamic force has arisen to challenge the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and support a more moderate regime in that country. This is a surprising opponent but the only one that could be of significance: al-Azhar University. Why is Egypt’s Islamic establishment taking on
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International, Middle East
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
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–The following is the text of a statement released by the Middle East Quartet (United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia) in New York on July 2, 2011: “The Quartet remains concerned about the unsustainable conditions facing the civilian population in Gaza but notes that efforts have improved conditions over the
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Middle EastWASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release) –Following remarks made by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that the Obama Administration is now pursuing a policy of “limited contacts” with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Rep. Trent Franks (AZ-02), a member of the House Committee on Armed Services, Friday denounced this policy of engaging an “extremely violent Islamic fundamentalist group” saying:
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal TEL AVIV — Something seemed awry when I logged onto El Al’s website three months ago to select seats for our Israel bound plane: the 747 was completely booked. Our seats were already assigned and not one extra one was available. Little did we know when we booked our tickets last
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The American-flagged ship, The Audacity of Hope, is part of an international flotilla organized to violate Israel’s legal blockade of the Gaza Strip, allegedly to deliver humanitarian aid. StandWithUs condemns the flotilla as a hypocritical and dangerous publicity stunt, and joins international leaders who have urged the flotilla organizers to send goods
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–If he is still alive, and if he is still in Gaza, Gilad Shalit has now passed five years as a captive. The lack of certainty reflects the absence of information about his existence for a year or more. His captives have never allowed a visit with an independent source, such as
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In 2003, I and the publication I edit, the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, became the world’s biggest story for two or three days. Last week I became a “story” without knowing it until later. First, the 2003 experience. An Iraqi-American author submitted a good article
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International, Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the Flag & General Officers Program in Israel, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) asked the Israeli government why it gives Hamas a “free ride” from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). We wrote, “You let/enable/assist the Red Cross in doing its humanitarian work in the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen