Halting Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Iranian Vulnerabilities and Western Policy Options
The Sources of Iranian Negotiating Behavior
This analysis identifies patterns exhibited by the Iranian government and the Iranian
people since ancient times. Most importantly,
Jerusalem: Dangers of Division
A principal argument of those who support the division of Israel’s capital is the need to improve the city’s demographic balance between Jews and Arabs in favor of Jews.
Demilitarization – Preventing Military and Terrorist Threats
Winning Counterinsurgency War: The Israeli Experience
Download the full report (pdf) Summary Contrary to popular belief, conventional armies can indeed defeat terrorist insurgencies. This study will detail the six basic conditions which, if met, enable an army to fight and win the war against terrorism, among which are control of the ground where the insurgency is being waged, acquiring relevant intelligence […]
Who Will Keep the Peace? The Role of Peacekeeping in a Future Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord
Precision-Guided or Indiscriminate?
Will an IDF Withdrawal from the West Bank Mean a Safe Haven for Extremist Groups?
Israel has had more than a flavor of what it can mean to leave hostile groups in control of lands adjacent to its own borders in southern Lebanon and in Gaza. Any similar move to totally cede control to the Palestinians of the West Bank or a part of Jerusalem would carry immense risk.
Back to Basics on Israel’s Security Needs
U.S. policy since 1967, developed under President Johnson, included the idea that the so-called ’67 borders were incapable of providing Israel with adequate defense and would change.
Has U.S. Policy on Israel Changed Since the July 6 Obama-Netanyahu Summit?
President Obama came into office with strong preconceptions about foreign policy and especially about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The main result of the administration’s new policy was to encourage the Palestinians to take more hard-line positions. Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas began to insist on preconditions for direct negotiations which never existed before.
Environmental Activism in the Canadian Jewish Community
While there have been numerous literary efforts to inform the scholarly and lay public concerning ecology and Judaism at least from the 1980s, the penetration of these concepts to the level of ordinary public discourse within the Canadian Jewish community is barely a decade old, and its appreciable impact has been even more recent.
From the Editors
Jewish Political Studies Review 22:3-4 (Fall 2010) This issue opens with an essay by Laurence Weinbaum about the forgotten Polish Jewish historian Ruben Feldschu. Only fragments of his diary written in the Warsaw Ghetto, which contains more than eight hundred pages of entries, have been deciphered and published. Feldschu’s writings have never found a […]
The Mayor’s Vision for Jerusalem
Jerusalem has a population of 800,000 people today, which will grow to a million people twenty years from now. The current population ratio is one-third Muslim, two-thirds Jewish, and two percent Christian. In the next twenty years, we anticipate a need for 50,000 apartments – one-third for the Arab population and two-thirds for the Jewish population. Jerusalem must stay united. There is not one example in the world of a divided city that ever worked.
Why Are the Palestinians Opposed to Ending the Occupation?
Foreign Minister Lieberman’s plan to assist the Gaza Strip in becoming an independent entity has encountered wall-to-wall Palestinian opposition. The dual-headed Palestinian regime in Ramallah (Fatah) and in the Gaza Strip (Hamas) totally rejects Lieberman’s proposal to recruit the European Union to build power stations to supply electricity, desalination stations and a sewage treatment plant. […]
Lebanon: Ayatollah Fadlallah’s Death and the Expansion of Iranian Hegemony
Shiite religious leader Sayyed Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah played a leading role in the increasing Islamic radicalization of Lebanese Shiites and laid the foundations for Hizbullah’s ideology of violent struggle against the West and Israel. He supplied an organized doctrine for the mujahid who is ready to sacrifice his life. Yet he opposed the aspirations of Iran to establish an Islamic republic in Lebanon.
