Results for “Israel Policy Forum”

…usion of Peace with Syria Elliott Abrams Article 2. | The Daily Star A democratic Arab world would welcome peace with Israel Hamid Alkifaey AricleS-’ The Daily Beast The Awkward Exit of Mideast Envoy George Mitchell Daniel Stone Article 4. | The Washington Post Amid the Ar...

…’. This is a redundant and even harmful law. In general, and particularly at this point. To our friends it signals that Israel is losing its self- confidence regarding the obvious — namely,its unique identity as the Jewish-democratic state as reflected by the "Declaration of Inde...

…s, by intellect and instinct, a pragmatist and a centrist. I did share Labor’s vision of a socially just and democratic Israel. Especially after seeing far-right rabbis egg on the fanaticism that ultimately killed Yitzhak Rabin, I felt strongly that we needed to separate organize...

…talking with his wartime friends, he realized this kind of low-level intelligence could never address the real need for Israel: to ensure we had early warning if Syria or Lebanon, Jordan or Egypt, were preparing to go to war against us. He began toying with the idea of training...

…l from Bibi. “No,” I said, raising my voice to be heard above the boos, “we will not boo an incumbent Prime Minister of Israel... A short time ago, I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu and thanked him for his service to the State of Israel.” Then — with both Leah and Shimon Pere...

…here was no clear sign at this stage which one of us had won. But the exit poll findings came as a shock: Barak, of One Israel, 58.5 percent; Netanyahu, Likud, 41.5 percent. It was a landslide. The full impact hit me only when I got to the fifth-floor suite in the Dan Hotel in T...

…rk provides a paper trail of the meandering and rocky path of the peace process. Relevant documents related to the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past century (since the Sykes—Picot Agreement of 1916) are compiled in this book. It provides an annotated and chronological overview...

…a few transmission lines from collapse. That is according to a mathematical study of spatial networks by physicists in Israel and the United States. Study co-author Shlomo Havlin of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, says that the research builds on earlier work by incor...

… The rules of working with the Americans: Do not marginalize yourself. Do not fold. Yes — remember what the U.S. is for Israel. And Maintain—at almost any cost — mutual relations of trust and respect. It's good for Israel. ¢ The American Congress, President Obama, Biden and Kerr...

…d been designed, I never doubted that killing it off would be by far a worse alternative. Bibi had been elected to /ead Israel. Instead, he acted as if he was playing some sort of pinball match, flipping the ball first one way, then the other, with no obvious aim beyond keeping i...

…". There is an opportunity to establish a regional agreement that fundamentally changes the realities of the region and Israel's future and status within it. An agreement that will move the region's entire economy forward together with the chance for stability and peace ,based on...

… administration appearing to stick with Assad and refusing to call for his ouster? A key reason may be the hope that an Israeli- Syrian peace deal can be arranged. From the day it came to office, the Obama administration clearly wanted to win an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreeme...

… different thing. And this perception only reinforces Iran's obduracy and the delaying tactics that they've adopted. ¢ Israel has a supreme interest in "keeping all the options on the table". However, today, mostly against the backdrop of the drawn-out talks — Israel has an inte...

…nhappy with it too, but for another reason. On the lookout for validation of Arafat’s insistence that Camp David was an Israeli “trap”, they were convinced that the paper had Israel’s fingerprints all over it. That wasn’t true. The one change we’d insisted on was because it misre...

… purposes of the meeting, so that at least there could be meaningful discussion of the border, including the provisions Israel wanted in order to retain the major settlement blocks. President Clinton agreed that made sense. He said that without talking about the substance of such...