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Monthly Archives: March 2011
The West Should Use Resolution 1701 to Roll Back Hizbullah’s Effective Take-over of the Lebanese Government
22/04/2010 The summoning by the United States of Syrian Deputy Chief of Mission Zouheir Jabbour for a review of Syrian arms transfers to Hizbullah is the latest evidence of the serious basis to the recent tensions in the north. Syria … Continue reading
Arab Order and flying Shoes
21/12/2008 US President George W. Bush’s visit to Iraq this week reflected the mixed legacy of his presidency. The Iraq invasion is likely to be remembered as the defining issue of the Bush era and recent events show real progress … Continue reading
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Tagged George W. Bush, Hassan Nasrallah, Iraq, Muntadar al-Zeidi, Nouri al Maliki
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Northern Sinai: A Desert Playground for Smugglers, Jihadis
13/11/2008 The 25 Egyptian police officers taken hostage by Beduins in northern Sinai on Tuesday have now been freed. The men were released on the Egyptian border with Israel, reportedly unharmed. The freeing of the hostages concludes a series of … Continue reading
Israel’s Demographic Timebomb
Guardian- 14/01/2004 Israeli right-of-centre politics is today turned in on itself. The reason for this derives from the prominence in recent weeks given to proposals for unilateral disengagement by Israel from the Gaza Strip and the greater part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariel Sharon, Disengagement, Ehud Olmert, Likud, West Bank
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Waking from the Oslo Dream
Guardian- 01/05/2002 Israel is at war. The brief respite afforded by operation Defensive Shield ended with the killings at Adura. As I write, Israeli forces are in Hebron. Here in Jerusalem, once again, the streets are emptying. Tension, fear in … Continue reading
7/7: In Memory of Anat Rosenberg
Guardian- 07/07/2006 Writing about a dead friend is not easy. It is made doubly hard when that friend was murdered, in political circumstances. One wants to pay tribute to a face, a smile, remembered words. And one is conscious of … Continue reading
This War’s real Masters
Guardian- 14/07/2006 The kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbullah on the Israel-Lebanon border and the killing of eight others was an unprovoked act of war. Israel is now involved in a two-front confrontation with well-armed Islamist organisations that have … Continue reading
Forget what you think you knew about Israel
Guardian- 29/03/2006 Welcome to the new Israeli politics. You will need to forget a large amount of what you thought you knew about Israel. The clash between Gush Emunim and Peace Now, between Labour and Likud, between the Whole Land … Continue reading
Surface squabbles, underlying Unity
Guardian- 11/02/2009 With the final count nearly complete, it is now possible to draw some tentative conclusions regarding the 2009 Israeli elections. The coalition arithmetic remains painfully complex. It is impossible presently to predict with certainty what type of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Avigdor Lieberman, Azmi Bishara, Binyamin Netanyahu, Likud, Tzipi Livni
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A Political Earthquake
Guardian- 02/05/2007 We knew that the Winograd report, investigating the failures during last summer’s war with Hizbullah, would be critical of Israel’s political and military leadership. But no one here in Israel expected a political earthquake of this magnitude. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Amir Peretz, Ehud Olmert, Hamas, Hizbullah, Kadima, Tsipi Livni, Winograd report
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