Emanuele Ottolenghi

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1018443.html The story broke in late July that the German company SPG (Steiner-Prematechnik-Gastec) had signed a 100-million euro deal with Iran to build three plants for compressed natural gas (CNG) production. There are three lessons to be learned from this…

http://www.isranet.org/Israzine/israzine_V1N11_iranshellgame.htm Ever since a defector exposed the existence of Iran’s nuclear program in 2002, the regime in Tehran has routinely protested its innocence in the face of charges that it is developing fissile weapons of mass destruction and the missiles…

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives41.html Executive Summary: Sanctions against Iran focus on nuclear and ballistic missile technology, drawing a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate trade. But a closer look at Iran’s commercial practices proves that Iran is systematically abusing its access to Western technology.…

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ)-Britain’s main professional association of journalists and reporters-recently joined an international boycott of Israeli goods. In the UK, such boycotts have become something of a spring ritual, akin to elaborate animal-mating dances. Much has been…

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/emanuele_ottolenghi/2007/02/emanuele_ottolenghi.html In the Jewish war of words about Israel there’s an adage: Jews close ranks to defend the Jewish state, even when Israel’s conduct is indefensible. Organised Jewry does this best: to get away with their inexcusable political stance, Jewish…

Would anyone argue today that the best way to stabilize the Balkans is reviving the Federal State of Yugoslavia? Whether a united post-Communist Yugoslavia was a realistic political solution to Balkan tensions in 1991 is for historians to determine. It…