Hamastan is a State supported financially by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has found in Hamas an ideal instrument with which to extend its influence to the south of Israel. Hence there is a generous influx of Iranian weapons and rockets into the Gaza Strip, often passing through Egyptian soil through a labyrinth of tunnels to evade surveillance on either side of the border. Download PDF Descargar PDF

NATO and Israel share many and very important strategic interests. The broader Middle East is where the strategic tectonic plates of our world are colliding now. The inter-German border was the central front of the Cold War for many decades; today if there is a central front between civilization and barbarism it runs through the Middle East. It is no longer just a cause of nationalism, what we see in the region today is a matter of freedom versus fanaticism; of respect to the international norms versus rogue behaviors; of mutual coexistence versus mutual destruction. Download PDF

Israel is currently celebrating the 60th Anniversary of its creation. It has not had an easy existence, far from it, and the fact that it still exists today is in itself a cause for celebration. Israel has progressed greatly since its birth in 1948 following a UN resolution. Nowadays it is a global economic power even though it is insignificant in geographical terms, minuscule in terms of population and has no oil or other natural resources. Israel’s prosperity is a miracle that is down to the tenacity, perseverance and imagination of the Jewish people. Download PDF

If Israel had not beaten Syria’s air force in its day, as it did with Syria’s army – and the Egyptian, Jordanian, Iraqi and Saudi Arabian armies, too – today Israel would not exist. And without Israel, the whole region would be in the hands of unscrupulous tyrants and radical Islamist groups whose attention would be directly aimed against us. Israel has been instrumental as our parapet. Israel will be even more instrumental in an ever radicalized area. Download PDF

I see the noose tightening around Israel’s neck and the necks of the world’s Jews. The fix is in—Arab oil money can do that over a fifty- or sixty-year period. Today, Jews and Israel can do no right—even or es-pecially when that is precisely what we do—and the nations who persecute us and others can do no wrong, no matter how many genocides or other human rights atrocities they commit. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Iran has an interesting take on international law. According to Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki, the UN Security Council's Chapter VII resolution from last December requiring Iran to cease all its uranium enrichment activities is illegal. As he put it Wednesday during a friendly visit in Turkey, "We were against [the resolution] for being illegal and politically motivated."Anyone with even a casual acquaintance with international law should recognize that Mottaki's statement is not merely incorrect. Download PDF

Abbas made clear it was only intra-Palestinian bloodshed he opposed. Attacking Jews was still OK. Download PDF

It is impossible to guess the consequences of the approaching showdown between the US and Iran. But if the events of the past week are any guide, the future does not look promising. Download PDF

Fresh from her tete-a-tete with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas last week, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni instructed her press flack to tell her fellow cabinet ministers to remain mum on Abbas's latest "diplomatic" gambit. In the words of her communications director Shai Ben Maor, Abbas's decision to turn a document written by convicted Palestinian murderers and attempted murderers sitting in Israeli prisons into the centerpiece of his diplomatic policy is "an internal Palestinian issue" and so Israel should not be weighing in on it. Download PDF Descargar PDF

It's a grand occasion when a new Israeli prime minister makes an inaugural visit to Washington. He typically meets with the president, addresses a joint meeting of Congress, appears on plum television shows, talks to influential audiences, and consults privately with a range of leading figures. Personality, pomp, and substance mix together as the two heads of govern-ment establish a working relationship, the U.S.-Israel bond is reconfirmed, and issues relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict are reviewed. Download PDF Descargar PDF

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