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The Gaza Crisis: A Strategic Boon for Iran

From On November 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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By Richard Javad Heydarian

The recent war in Gaza has been portrayed as a political dividend for the main protagonists, namely Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt’s Mohammad Morsi, and the Hamas leadership in Gaza, despite the tremendous psychological, infrastructural and humanitarian costs borne by innocent civilians, especially the Palestinians.

As Hamas and [...]

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Tomgram: Oded Na’aman, Is Gaza Outside Israel?

From On November 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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On returning from his first trip to the Gaza Strip, Noam Chomsky told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, “It’s kind of amazing and inspiring to see people somehow managing to survive as caged animals subject to constant, random, sadistic punishment only to humiliate them, no pretext. Israel and the United States keep [...]

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Israel Uses Social Media To Defend Its Assault on Gaza

From On November 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The current Israeli onslaught against Gaza contains many echoes of the assault four years ago. In one regard, however, it is clear that Israel learned some lessons from its experience with “Operation Cast Lead” and is applying it to “Operation Pillar of Defense.” Those lessons are reflected in Israel’s use of [...]

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Israel vs. Gaza: The Grim Bottom Line

From On November 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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If current diplomacy fails, pent up rage on both sides, a cycle of tit-for tat-retaliation, Hamas’ hopes for greater Arab assistance, and a yearning to emerge from this latest round of heavy fighting on better footing than either side did from the last face-off in 2008-2009 could sustain Israeli-Hamas violence for quite a while. Without [...]

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Assassinated Hamas Leader Jabari was working on Permanent Israel Truce Agreement

From On November 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Nir Hasson reporting for Haaretz:

Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a flare-up between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip. This, according to Israeli [...]

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Yossi Alpher on Israel’s Non-Viable Gaza Strategy

From On November 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Writing in the Daily Beast’s “Open Zion” former Israeli intelligence operative and strategic expert Yossi Alpher offers his thoughts on Israel’s offensive against Hamas targets (an 11-month old is reportedly among the civilian causalities) in the Gaza Strip today:

So why am I worried? First and foremost, because our leadership still has [...]

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Israel Ranked World’s Most Militarised Nation

From On November 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Israel tops the list of the world’s most militarised nations, according to the latest Global Militarisation Index released Tuesday by the Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC).

At number 34, Israel’s main regional rival, Iran, is far behind. Indeed, every other Near Eastern country, with the exceptions of Yemen (37) [...]

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Colonel Liron Libman, Former Head of the Israeli IDF International Law Department, Responds to my Post

From On November 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

By Dan Joyner

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Colonel Libman was responding to my post from last Thursday regarding Steve Walt’s recent FP piece. However, I wanted to give Col. Libman’s comment, and my response to it, their own post.  I’ll first copy Col. Libman’s comment as a block quote, and then give [...]

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Netanyahu’s 2010 Order Was Not a Move to War on Iran

From On November 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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A new twist was added to the longrunning media theme of a threat by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go to war with Iran when news stories seemed to suggest Monday that Netanyahu had ordered the Israeli military to prepare for an imminent attack on Iranian nuclear sites in [...]

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Protocols of the Elders of Las Vegas

From On August 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is probably the most notorious work of anti-Semitic propaganda ever written. First surfacing publicly in 1905 after several years in private circulation, the work was a fabricated transcript of a secret meeting of rabbis plotting to control the world, as Gary Saul [...]

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