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WikiLeaks: U.S. Discusses Operation Cast Lead Investigations with IDF

The meetings reviewed legal and operational issues related to IDF activities during Operation Cast Lead… Continue reading

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Turkey: in between Political Islam and the Military

This paper analyses the impact of domestic dynamics on its relations with Israel during the current AKP government and the RP led government in the 1990s… Continue reading

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U.S. Congressmen Want Goldstone Report Withdrawn

Following an op-ed released earlier this month by Judge Richard Goldstone in which he wrote that much of his… Continue reading

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The lies of the Goldstone Report: What Happens Next?

The damage has been done. The lies and blood-libels have been swallowed. Officers of the IDF and leaders of the Jewish State are… Continue reading

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Goldstone: Reconsidering the Report on Israel and War Crimes

We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission… Continue reading

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Israel and Hamas Near a Spring War

After nearly two months of rising tension, Israel and Hamas have taken a step towards a full-blown military confrontation… Continue reading

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Israel-Hamas War is Inevitable

The Egyptian revolution and U.S. policy mistakes make a new Israel-Hamas war inevitable, and as a result it will be a lot more… Continue reading

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The Coming Challenge to Democracy in the Middle East

Today, the Friends of Israel Initiative released its 3rd dispatch. In the dispatch they featured a nice piece about the challenges to democracy the Middle East will… Continue reading

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Turkey Moving Toward A Semi-Dictatorship

Soner Cagaptay, senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, writes in an article that since 2002, when Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power… Continue reading

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Hamas Minister: 700 Hamas Militants Were Killed During Operation Cast Lead

Fathi Hamad, the Hamas administration’s interior minister, revealed that as many as 700 Hamas military-security operatives were killed during Operation Cast Lead. The number, consistent with Israel’s examination, is significantly higher than the biased numbers given in the past by Hamas… Continue reading

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A Moral Evaluation of the Gaza War

Prof. Asa Kasher analyzes the moral issues in the Gaza War… Continue reading

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Turkey Shows its True Face

In the aftermath of the Gaza war the friendship between Turkey and Israel is declining more and more… Continue reading

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We are all Tzipi Livni

The latest episode in which, to paraphrase Karl von Clausewitz, law is used as the continuation of war by other means, involved the threat to arrest former foreign minister Tzipi Livni on the nonsensical charge that she committed war crimes during Operation Cast Lead… Continue reading

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UNHRC endorsing the Goldstone report

Following the UN Human Rights Council’s endorsement of the Goldstone Commission Report in Geneva on Friday, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem stated that Israel rejects the “one-sided decision” and calls on “all the responsible states” not to accept it… Continue reading