Unilateral Separation as Roadmap Insurance
The record of formal efforts to negotiate peace in protracted ethno-national conflicts (Balkans, N. Ireland, Sri Lanka, etc.) is not encouraging. Israel needs a serious insurance policy, in the form of unilateral separation, to minimize vulnerability to another and potentially more deadly terror campaign, should the “roadmap” fail.
Combating Terrorist Financing: Where the War on Terror Intersects the “Roadmap”
Combating terrorist financing is one of the most critical fronts in both the war on terror and the implementation of the roadmap to peace. In both cases, cutting off the flow of funds to terrorists hinges on focusing on logistical and financial support networks. Too often security, intelligence, and law enforcement services – and certainly politicians and diplomats – make distinctions between terrorist "operatives" and terrorist "supporters."
Who is Taking Credit for Attacks on the U.S. Army in Western Iraq? Al-Jama’a al-Salafiya al-Mujahida
The new Iraqi Sunni resistance organization al-Jama’a al-Salafiya al-Mujahida offers a radical Islamic platform that contains many points in common with al-Qaeda. It views Americans not just as modern crusaders waging a religious war in the name of Christianity against Islam, but as an infidel people who believe in a new infidel religion – democracy – that is striving to achieve world hegemony.
Denial of the Holocaust and Immoral Equivalence
In her 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, historian Deborah Lipstadt examines Holocaust denial: the myth that the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis never occurred. Once the deniers have absolved the Nazis of this central accusation, their next step is usually to claim that their warfare was similar to that of the Allies.
Iran after the Iraq War
Iran presents the most dangerous existential threat today to Israel as a Jewish state and it is also a threat to the Israel-Arab peace process. There is a very serious Iranian effort to develop a nuclear bomb, and the Russians have played a very significant role here. Without the transfer of nuclear technologies from Russia, Iran could not maintain its current pace of progress in the development of nuclear weapons. Tehran often emerges as the source of funding behind terrorist attacks in Israel.
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem: Conclusions
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem:
The Global Epidemic of Illegal Building and Demolitions
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem:
The Long Term Consequences of Illegal Building
The Controversy over Building Permits:
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem: Planning and its Discontents
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem: Israeli Planning Law and Illegal Building
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem : Impediments to Providing Quality Public Services in the Arab Neighborhoods of Jerusalem
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem: Relevant Jerusalem History
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem: Executive Summary
Illegal Construction in Jerusalem
Municipalities and governments in all parts of the world have struggled with illegal building. However, compared with the incessant denunciation of rather infrequent demolitions by the Jerusalem Municipality, there has been nearly a complete lack of publicity when other governments demolish illegal structures.
