The Failure of the Riyadh Summit
In the past, Israel did not have to pay the price of rhetorically accepting full withdrawal in order to gain a diplomatic dialogue with the Arab world. The basis of the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference was UN Security Council Resolution 242. The Madrid conference also produced a multilateral track that led to direct diplomatic contacts between Israel and the Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia. If 242 was sufficient in 1991, why is it not good enough for 2007?
Finland’s Tarnished Holocaust Record
There was little punishment for war criminals in Finland. It now seems that a large part of Finland’s tarnished wartime record will never be revealed.
Europe’s Jewish Problem – Les frontières d’Auschwitz: Les ravages du devoir de mémoire by Shmuel Trigano
In this book Shmuel Trigano, who teaches at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and is chairman of the Observatoire du Monde juif (an institute for research on anti-Semitism), has analyzed anti-Semitism’s contemporary manifestations.
The Implications of a Nuclear Iran
Tehran pays 100 percent of the Islamic Jihad budget and gives a bonus for every Israeli murdered. In addition, through Hizbullah Iran pays the Al Aqsa Brigade, which belongs to Fatah in name only. Iran imports 40 percent of its consumption of refined oil products. An embargo on gasoline could create a very serious problem for the regime. In addition, Iran is dependent on the flow of money and credit from Europe, which could be severed.
Russia’s New Middle Eastern Policy: Back to Bismarck?
Russia has been increasing its sales of weapons to Middle Eastern countries, as well as to rogue and semi-rogue states. Russia is using the sale of weapons and nuclear reactors today the way imperial Germany used railroads before World War One – to attract allies, bolster influence, and undermine the dominant power in the Middle East. Russia aims at becoming an alternative world superpower and is increasingly at odds with or opposed to the U.S. and the West.
Russia’s New Middle Eastern Policy: Back to Bismarck?
Vol. 6, No. 25 Russian President Vladimir Putin has outlined a new Russian Middle Eastern policy and has made a precedent-setting visit to Saudi Arabia, and to other traditional American allies in the Middle East. Russia has been increasing its sales of weapons to Middle Eastern countries, as well as to rogue and semi-rogue states. Russia […]
Is There a Future for Jews in Switzerland?
Swiss Jewry seems to be set for steady decline. There are today some eighteen thousand Jews in Switzerland—the same number as in 1900, whereas the general population has doubled since then. Assimilation and emigration, mainly to Israel, have reduced the Jewish population.
Jewish numbers were never high in Switzerland although many Jewish communities existed there in the Middle Ages. A pattern began in 1348 when many cities in the territories of what was to become the Swiss Confederacy murder
What Israel Can Learn from the International Court of Justice Ruling on Genocide in Srebrenica
Since it has now been ruled that states can be tried for genocide, a case can probably be brought under the Genocide Convention against Iran since Article III of the Genocide Convention describes incitement to genocide as a punishable act. The ICJ ruling may have applicability to the Palestinian Authority, as well. The Charter of Hamas, the leading party in the PA, calls for genocide.
Iran Is Building “Hamastan” in Gaza
There is a growing strategic alliance between Iran and the radical Palestinian forces in the territories. Iran is involved in supporting both the Islamic factions and Fatah, as well. Today, at least 40 percent of Fatah’s different fighting groups are also paid by Hizbullah and Iran. Hamas thinks it can build a new southern Lebanon in Gaza, and this is what it is busy doing.
President Bush and the Qods Force Controversy: Lessons Learned
Senior Israeli military and intelligence officials have with a high degree of certainty linked Iran’s senior leadership with direct involvement over the past fifteen years in Qods Force operations against Israel. The Qods Force carries out these types of military operations across the Middle East, to export the revolution and establishing an “Iranian Shiite crescent” through which Iran could assert regional hegemony.
Colin Meade on The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
Wartime Machinations
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, by Jeffrey Herf, Harvard Belknap, 2006, 390 pp.
Reviewed by Colin Meade
Cecil B. Currey on U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis
Failure to Know the Enemy
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, by Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 495 pp.
Reviewed by Cecil B. Currey
Alexander Arndt on Generation des Unbedingten: Das Führungskorps des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes
Knowing No Limits
Generation des Unbedingten: Das Führungskorps des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes (Generation of the Unbound: The Leadership Corps of the Reich Security Main Office) by Michael Wildt, Hamburger Edition HIS, 2003, 966 pp. [German]
Reviewed by Alexander Arndt
Chanan Reich on H. V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist
The Undercover Zionist
H. V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist, by Daniel Mandel, Frank Cass, 2004, 336 pp.
Reviewed by Chanan Reich
Asaf Romirowsky on Warrant for Terror: The Fatwas of Radical Islam, and the Duty of Jihad
Fatwa Rules to Live By
Warrant for Terror: The Fatwas of Radical Islam, and the Duty of Jihad, by Shmuel Bar, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, 152 pp.
Reviewed by Asaf Romirowsky
