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http://alonben-meir.com/articles/read/id/377 Alon Ben-Meir is professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU and is the Middle East Project Director at the World Policy Institute. Alon@alonben-meir.com Since President Bush declared his intention a few months ago to…
read moreThe Truth about SyriaBy Barry RubinPalgrave Macmillan304 pages; $24.95 Can be purchased for $16.47 at SPMEMart at https://spme.org/cgi-bin/spmemart/shop.cgi?Operation=ItemSearch&Keywords=Barry+Rubin+Truth+About+Syria&SearchIndex=Books Syria has long presented a solemn problem for the region, US foreign policy and Israel. Its mix of competing religious and ethnic…
read morehttp://www.brandeis.edu/centers/crown/publications/WP/WP2.pdf Introduction June 2007 marked a turning point in the Gaza Strip’s long, troubled history. Five days of a new round of internecine fighting during the second week of that month between Hamas- affiliated armed militants and the Fatah-allied security…
read morehttp://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22609648-7583,00.html THE debate in Australia – kick-started by Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd last month – over the applicability of the genocide convention to the threats of mass murder made by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not only welcome. It is…
read morehttp://cafecritique.priv.at/blog/2007/10/19/naturlich-kein-antisemit/#more-48 Dem Campus-Verlag ist mit Walts/Mearsheimers „Die Israel Lobby“ ein wahrer Knüller gelungen. Dabei geht es mir weder um den kommerziellen Erfolg, den das Buch mit Sicherheit darstellt, noch um das antisemitische Cover, mit dem die deutsche Ausgabe der Kampfschrift…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/periskop/44522/iran+putin+zu+gast+in+teheran Die iranische Regierung feiert die Ausdehnung ihrer wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zu Russland. Der US-Plan zur Isolierung des Iran sei gescheitert. Dabei setzt Putin seine nationalegoistischen Interessen durch. Als Stalin am 28. November 1943 nach Teheran reiste, ging es um die…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1191257295565&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Abe Foxman must be feeling a little vindication these days – although that may be of little solace to the outspoken Anti-Defamation League national director. Last August, when the ADL’s New England chapter defied the organization’s long-standing policy not…
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,511210,00.html A small resolution with a big effect: A US Congressional committee has voted to call the massacre of Armenians during World War I genocide — a move that now threatens to shatter the Turkish-American friendship. The history of the…
read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-muravchik14oct14,0,4176100.story?coll=la-opinion-center Last month, one of the more mysterious episodes in the history of the Arab-Israel conflict began to leak slowly into the news. Although the facts are still unconfirmed, what seems to have happened has major implications not only for…
read morehttp://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w071008&s=kirchick101207 Of all the absurd claims expressed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his recent address at Columbia University, his assertion that homosexuality does not exist in his country is the most ridiculous. Ahmadinejad’s florid statements regarding Jews (“We are…
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