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Source: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2481 PolicyWatch #1116 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s pursuit of a referendum on the Palestinian National Accord has been widely interpreted by commentators and reporters as a power play designed to circumvent the Hamas-led government and force it to implicitly…
read moreSource: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA26206 Introduction Iran’s annual Basij Week, initiated 27 years ago by Islamic Revolution founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was celebrated November 26- December 1, 2006. The Basij (Persian for “mobilized”), which is made up of volunteers from all walks of…
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The Iranians know they cannot win a war against the United States. Their stated policy is to deter the U.S. and its allies by threatening a war that will cause such damage at such a price that this option will…
read moreThere’s a barely concealed wish among many old Mideast hands these days to just walk away from the steadily deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian situation. Armed thugs from Fatah are fighting it out with armed thugs from Hamas. Israel is building unilateral fences…
read moreThe Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), a New York City-based NGO, funded by the Ford Foundation and other philanthropies, claims to “promote social justice through human rights.”[1] However, CESR publications on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict promote a highly political…
read moreIn the coming days, leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA will take up a controversial issue – whether to divest from Israel. Why do these Presbyterians think as they do? Their critics overlook the obvious: It’s because of what’s being…
read moreCAMBRIDGE, MA — Peering out the window of one of this town’s many excellent coffeeshops, one could be forgiven for thinking that all is right at Harvard. The ancient pageantry of commencement, conducted this week, still inflects Harvard Square as…
read moreUnited Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has expressed doubt over an Israel Defense Forces probe determining that the blast on a Gaza Strip beach last Friday that killed seven civilians was caused by a mine or explosive device, placed by…
read moreJune 13, 2006 Greetings, Below please find the link to the seventh Middle East Brief: “United States’ Policy Toward Hamas: An Initial Assesment” by Jeremy Pressman. This Brief analyzes the United States’ policy to isolate Hamas since its election to…
read moreMost Palestinians are believed to favor a two-state solution that would acknowledge Israel’s pre-1967 borders and thus, explicitly or implicitly, Israel’s right to exist. But the Hamas-led government that Palestinians elected this year refuses any such gesture. The Palestinian president,…
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