Israeli Security Policy in Syria
The attempted Hizbullah attack thwarted on the Golan Heights and the air strikes attributed the Israeli Air Force on against military targets in Syria join a series of similar incidents over the past three years.
France’s Position on the Emerging Nuclear Agreement with Iran
Why France has a different view of Iran than the United States
Why Does The West Apologize To Iran?
It is impossible to explain the present policy of the Obama administration toward Iran without an understanding of how a large part of the American foreign policy establishment actually believes that America shares the blame for the deterioration of relations between the two countries since 1979, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, was […]
Khamenei Redefines Iran’s Red Lines for Nuclear Talks
After nuclear “agreement,” Iranian leaders stake out hard line positions.
Killing Americans and their Allies: Iran’s Continuing War against the U.S. and the West
Tehran has used its weapons deliveries to fuel a number of regional insurgencies, like the Houthi revolt in Yemen. – Killing Americans and their Allies: Iran’s Continuing War.
The Saudi Military Intervention in Yemen
What lies behind the Arab coalition attack on Yemen?
The Libyan Quagmire
The civil war in Libya could drag in African, Arab and Western nations.
Iran Takes Over Iraq
General David Petraeus is the best known top American officer from the Iraq War. There are only a few in the U.S. who know more about internal developments in Iraq than he does.
Iran’s Defiance: Flaunting a Cruise Missile with 2,500 Km. Range
Despite critical nuclear negotiations, Iran defiantly unveils new missile.
A Bad Agreement with Iran Will Undermine Middle East Stability
Iran regards itself as spearheading a redress of historical injustices that relegated the Shiites to a minor status in the Arab and Islamic world.
Israel and the Gaza Strip: Why Economic Sanctions Are Not Collective Punishment
Swiss Jewry: Between Continuity and Decline
INTRODUCTION In 2010,1 after 146 years2 of continuous existence, the Jewish community of Lucerne seemed to be on the verge of disappearance.3 There were only sixty, mostly elderly members. Hugo Benjamin, head of Lucerne’s Jewish community, announced to the media: “I do not know how to go on. In the whole of the canton of […]
Germany and a Nuclear Iran
Contemporary Germany is personified by Chancellor Angela Merkel. In her famous address to Israel’s Knesset in March 2008, she declared that she would not refrain from “using additional, tougher sanctions to convince Iran to stop its nuclear program.”
Palestinians, Arabs, and the Holocaust
One of the major Palestinian Arab arguments regarding the establishment of the state of Israel is that the West facilitated its founding out of guilt over the Holocaust.
Book Reviews – Spring 2014, Volume 26, Numbers 1–2
Jon D. Levenson, Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012, 244 pp. Reviewed by Rivkah Fishman-Duker THE IDEA OF ABRAHAMIC RELIGION In recent years, the idea of Abrahamic religion has taken root. Basically, it means that Judaism, Christianity and Islam owe their existence to Abraham […]
