Below please find the link to the fifteenth Middle East Brief: “Moscow’s Iranian Policies: Opportunities and Dangers,” by Dr. Carol Saivetz. Saivetz is a Research Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian Studies and a Visiting Scholar at MIT’s…
read moreHizballah is perhaps the most capable guerilla organization in the world today. This is due to its high level of training, Shiite religious indoctrination and dedication, sophisticated weaponry, strong financial and military support, and years of experience and preparation. Israel’s…
read moreSeveral prominent scholars have taken issue with Jimmy Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” cataloguing its historical inaccuracies and lamenting its lack of balance. The journalist Jeffrey Goldberg also critiqued the book’s theological purpose, which, he asserted, was to “convince…
read moreEgypt and Israel began peace overtures in 1977, after both had decided that the UnitedStates was part of the problem, not the solution. President Jimmy Carter had just called for a joint U.S.-Soviet-sponsored Middle East Peace Conference, and the last…
read moreJERUSALEM, Dec. 25 (JTA) – After the plethora of goodwill gestures Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made in his meeting Saturday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, politicians and pundits on both sides are asking one question: Will it be…
read moreTwo well-timed interviews by the president of Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, and by his sophisticated foreign minister, Walid Mu’allem (a former ambassador in Washington, a veteran of the previous decade’s peace efforts, and a pleasant interlocutor with his many Jewish and…
read moreFrom Tehran to Plains, Ga., to the hallowed halls of Harvard, a new cry is heard in the land: The Jews are suppressing free speech. In recent weeks, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, and Harvard University-associated…
read moreArgentinean Special Prosecutors have found that senior Iranian government officials, including former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, are responsible for the July, 2004 bombing of the Jewish Cultural Centre in Argentina (AMIA), in which 87 people were murdered and more…
read moreYOU CAN ALWAYS tell when a public figure has written an indefensible book: when he refuses to debate it in the court of public opinion. And you can always tell when he’s a hypocrite to boot: when he says he…
read moreTo understand what feeds former president Jimmy Carter’s anti-Israeli frenzy, look at his early links to Arab business. Between 1976-1977, the Carter family peanut business received a bailout in the form of a $4.6 million, “poorly managed” and highly irregular…
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