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Dr. Oded Eran has been appointed Director of INSS, and will officially assume his post in July 2008. He replaces Dr. Zvi Shtauber, who served as Director for the previous three and a half years. Dr. Eran joins INSS following a long career in Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other government positions. In his most recent post before joining INSS, he served as the World Jewish Congress Representative in Israel and the Secretary General of the WJC Israel Branch. He has also served as Israel's ambassador to the European Union; Israel's ambassador to Jordan, and head of Israel's negotiations team with the Palestinians on implementation of the interim and final status agreements. In addition, Dr. Eran is an advisor to the Knesset Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs. |
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Anat Kurz (June 25, 2008) examines the shift in Israel's policy in its willingness to agree with Hamas on a ceasefire, and explores the ramifications for Fatah's stance towards Hamas and for the Israeli -Palestinian political process. |
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Emily Landau (Disarmament Forum, 2008, No. 2), reviewing the reasons for the demise of the ACRS talks in the 1990s, considers the implications for the current regional reality and questions whether there is now an opprotunity to revive regional dialogue on non-prolfieration. |
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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni delivered the opening address at the annual INSS Yariv memoral conference, "The State of the Nation," held on June 23 at Tel Aviv University. Asserting that the Israeli public has lost faith in the political system, she cautioned that the road to anarchy is short. Livni also spoke on the need for a Palestinian state, which, she said, is perforce the answer to the Palestinian refugee problem. |
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Yoram Schweitzer and Amir Kulick examine the options Israel will have on "the day after" the expected Hizbollah retaliatory attack in response to the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, and the considerations that should guide Israel in its decisions whether or not to respond to a terrorist attack of this sort.
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In this issue: Israel-Syria negotiations; the new disarmament agenda; McCain and Obama on the Middle East and Israel; oil prices and the value of the dollar; the recent major home front exercise; the Palestinian inquiry into the Hamas takeover of Gaza; information security and public diplomacy; recent books on A. Q. Khan; and much more |
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