Embracing Delusions: Lessons for the Olmert Government
There is an old adage to the effect that if your only tool is a hammer; every problem looks like a nail. That is, in geo-political terms, catastrophes are not caused because of insufficient...
View ArticleThe Third Lebanon War
There is something to be learned from the frenzied love-fest given in Beirut in mid-July to the most notorious of the Lebanese prisoners released by Israel. Samir Kuntar was sentenced to 542 years in...
View ArticleRussia: The New Order Cometh
If there is any lesson to be learned from the recent Russian-Georgian war, it is that Western security commitments should not to be made unless and until they can be enforced. The war was the...
View ArticleRethinking American War Strategy
In 1945, after the liberation of France, it would have been unthinkable for the Allies to have stopped at the French-German border (believing they could contain Nazi expansionism in the post-war era),...
View ArticlePower and the Perception of Weakness
Nowhere is power (or the lack thereof) more clearly understood than in Middle Eastern culture. Coming from a Western perspective, we continually fail to recognize that concessions, territorial...
View ArticleNext Steps in the Middle East
In November 2003 (and on many occasions since then), Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar set out the reality under which Israel continues to live: “We do not recognize the State of Israel or its right to...
View ArticleGeneva meets Jihad: The New Rules of War
Despite thousands of rockets being fired at Israeli cities, towns and kibbutzim during Israel’s current conflict with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza, the European Union recently...
View ArticlePalestinian State Recognition – The Unfolding Disaster
The British House of Commons in session In a spectacular display of ignorance, immorality and malice in early October, Sweden’s new prime minister announced that his government plans to extend...
View ArticlePalestinian Statehood – Separating Fact from Fantasy
The NY Times recently reported that the Vatican has concluded a treaty recognizing Palestinian statehood. During Israel’s recent election, however, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented...
View ArticleThe Iran Nuclear Agreement…… A Ticking Time-Bomb
The countdown to Iran becoming a threshold nuclear state has begun and the world now stands at the abyss. In addition to facilitating Iranian control over Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and...
View ArticleFostering a culture of death has its price
Contrary to the wishes of the U.S. State Department, the U.S. House of Representatives has just frozen $370 million in financial aid to the Palestinian Authority in response to mounting criticism...
View ArticleThe Third Lebanon War
There is something to be learned from the frenzied love-fest given in Beirut in mid-July to the most notorious of the Lebanese prisoners released by Israel. Samir Kuntar was sentenced to 542 years in...
View ArticleRussia: The New Order Cometh
If there is any lesson to be learned from the recent Russian-Georgian war, it is that Western security commitments should not to be made unless and until they can be enforced. The war was the...
View ArticleRethinking American War Strategy
In 1945, after the liberation of France, it would have been unthinkable for the Allies to have stopped at the French-German border (believing they could contain Nazi expansionism in the post-war era),...
View ArticlePower and the Perception of Weakness
Nowhere is power (or the lack thereof) more clearly understood than in Middle Eastern culture. Coming from a Western perspective, we continually fail to recognize that concessions, territorial...
View ArticleNext Steps in the Middle East
In November 2003 (and on many occasions since then), Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar set out the reality under which Israel continues to live: “We do not recognize the State of Israel or its right to...
View ArticleGeneva meets Jihad: The New Rules of War
Despite thousands of rockets being fired at Israeli cities, towns and kibbutzim during Israel’s current conflict with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza, the European Union recently...
View ArticlePalestinian State Recognition – The Unfolding Disaster
The British House of Commons in session In a spectacular display of ignorance, immorality and malice in early October, Sweden’s new prime minister announced that his government plans to extend...
View ArticlePalestinian Statehood – Separating Fact from Fantasy
The NY Times recently reported that the Vatican has concluded a treaty recognizing Palestinian statehood. During Israel’s recent election, however, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented...
View ArticleThe Iran Nuclear Agreement…… A Ticking Time-Bomb
The countdown to Iran becoming a threshold nuclear state has begun and the world now stands at the abyss. In addition to facilitating Iranian control over Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and...
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