Dr. Raanan Gissin, a former senior advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, is one of Israel’s leading spokesmen to the foreign press and the international community on security and strategic issues, and the peace process. Instead of the war being…
read moreFor full article go to: http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/060817_isr_hez_lessons.pdf Return Comments to: acordesman@aol.com Preliminary Lessons of the Israeli-Hizballah War – Abstract Israel retains its conventional superiority or edge against the regular military forces of its Arab neighbors and particularly against the only meaningful…
read moreFor Hizbullah and its supporters in Lebanon, UN Security Council Resolution 1701 is, if not a clear victory, then certainly the least of all evils. The main reason is that 1701 keeps the discussion of Hizbullah’s disarmament within the confines…
read moreAt Middlebury College’s Arabic Summer School, where I recently taught Arabic, students were exposed to more than intensive language instruction. Inside the classroom and across campus, administrators and language teachers adhered to a restrictive Arab-nationalist view of what is generically…
read moreOn balance, Israel won this round Hizbullah has not made significant progress toward any long-term goals. By Nadav Morag LOS ANGELES For the past four decades, Israelis have not been able to taste true, flat-out military victory in their multiple…
read moreIn 1993 and 1996 I helped broker understandings that brought conflicts between Hezbollah and Israel to an end. Both times Hezbollah instigated warfare with Katyusha rocket fire into Israel and Israel retaliated, determined to damage Hezbollah’s capacity for making war…
read moreDr. Denis MacEoin is a former lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies and a specialist in Iranian Shi’ism. Ceasefires are like rites of passage: you hope to go in one end as one thing and to come out the other…
read moreFor the past month the United States has worked urgently to end the violence that Hezbollah and its sponsors have imposed on the people of Lebanon and Israel. At the same time, we have insisted that a truly effective cease-fire…
read moreExecutive Summary: “Proportionality” has become a common term, widely used by human rights organizations, politicians, soldiers and laypersons, but its precise legal meaning is little understood. The goal of this paper is to clarify the parameters of the use of…
read moreThe war against Hizbullah has pushed the latest developments in theWestern effort to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program from the headlines. The two issues are clearly linked – Hizbullah is armed by andfunctions as Iran’s vanguard force – even if…
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