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By Oded Eran In Haaretz
Before direct negotiations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas get underway, the key players need to be asked a few questions. Netanyahu should be asked how it came to pass that a careful, conservative leader such as himself pushed for direct negotiations in which he will be forced to outline clear positions on topics like Jerusalem and borders. |
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By Shlomo Brom in Haaretz
What bothers me about Chief of Staff-designate Yoav Galant's background is that he may not be political enough. First, he never held a senior General Staff post that required him to interact with the political system. And second, both before the war in the Gaza Strip and during it, he played precisely the role of the blockhead officer who thinks the main thing is to "give it" to Hamas, without appreciating the strategic and political realities in which the war was being conducted. |
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By Yiftah Shapir in The Defence Professionals; Reprint in full of INSS Insight No. 200, Aug. 2010.
On August 13, several reports appeared in the US media on plans by the Obama administration to sell arms to Saudi Arabia valued at $60 billion over a period of ten years. The reported deal is supposed to include 84 F-15S jets, approximately 60 AH-64D Apache Longbow assault helicopters, and about 70 UH-60 Black Hawk utility tactical transport helicopters. The deal will also include simulators, upgrades for existing fighter jets, and training and maintenance packages. |
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By Ephraim Asculai in The Jerusalem Post; Reprint in full of INSS Insight No. 198, Aug. 2010.
In view of the possibility of renewed talks between Iran and the “Vienna Group” (the US, France, Russia, and the IAEA), one cannot but wonder whether this will be “the real thing” or another Iranian time-buying ploy. Although at first Iran delayed the opening of talks, it later recommended to the Vienna Group not to delay the talks. |
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By Yehuda Ben Meir in Haaretz
The public debate has focused lately on one of the most important and vital questions in any democratic country: Where does the border run between freedom of expression and the right to expose and criticize the institutions of government, including those most precious like the IDF and Shin Bet security service, and the elementary civic duty to be unquestioningly loyal to the state and its institutions. |
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By Yoel Guzansky in The Jerusalem Post
In recent weeks, it seems that temperatures on both sides of the Persian Gulf have come to a boil. Temperatures in the Gulf, although usually high during the summer, reached a peak not due to global warming but because of increasing fear of Iran among Arab Gulf states. Indeed, concerns about Iran’s nuclear weapons program and negative involvement in the region are heard these days more in Arabic than any other language, including Hebrew. |
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By Ephraim Asculai and Emily B. Landau in The Jerusalm Post
The pattern of international efforts to confront Iran’s nuclear program has become all too familiar. The West – first the EU-3, and later the US – leads “diplomatic processes” to nowhere; Russia and China go back and forth between Iran and the West, reluctant to take too harsh a stance against Iran’s ongoing defiance, and agreeing only to belated and weak UN Security Council resolutions on sanctions; and the International Atomic Energy Agency continues to pose questions to Iran about the military dimensions of its nuclear program that Iran avoids answering, while at the same time it continues to install and run additional uranium enrichment cascades. |
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By Yoel Guzansky in The Jerusalem Post
To attack or not to attack Iran? That is the question - or rather, one of the questions - asked as part of a "global attitudes survey" conducted by the Pew Reaserch Institute in Washington. And the results? Suprising, especially with respect to attitudes toward Iran and its nuclear program. |
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By Emily B. Landau
The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference that ran for most of the month of May produced a final document adopted by the member states by consensus. Although the NPT was extended indefinitely in 1995, agreement on a final document--which must enjoy consensus--was widely regarded as a significant goal due to the serious challenges that today threaten the viability of the treaty. For US President Barack Obama in particular, to be able to declare this conference a "success" after the failed 2005 RevCon was especially important against the backdrop of his nuclear disarmament agenda and the steps he took in this direction in the months leading up to the RevCon. |
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By Oded Eran in The Jerusalem Post
Ever since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead in late December 2008, the writing was on the wall as to the bleak future of Israel’s relations with Turkey. The Turkish political leadership has made a strategic decision to turn east. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the populist prime minister, is conveying this in his own personal style. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu gives it a professorial gloss. There is now enough evidence to conclude that Turkey’s attitude toward Israel is part of a broader and dramatic shift in its strategic outlook. |
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