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the only outpost of the western way of life in the Middle East – at the meeting point of the ""clash of civilizations"" between Islam and the West

that the memory of 2006 is still fresh in his mind and he will not act. I have my reservations about the deterministic nature of this statement. ""Deterrence"" is a somewhat elusive term. This is not a ""zero sum game"" on a one-dimensional bar. This is a complex and context-rela...

and will never ask others to fight for us – yet the US has deployed advanced radar systems in Israel to provide early warning against long-range missiles

but there will be no such agreements with the Palestinians or with Syria in the foreseeable future. The Palestinians have taken themselves out of the game for now. We cannot turn from them to the Syrians while Assad’s troops are using howitzers and sniper rifles against his peopl...

led by Netanyahu. Free and democratic Arab countries won’t shrink from supporting this Palestinian right under any circumstances. Muslims will not give up on East Jerusalem

we will use the term ""Israel"" to connote all of the Hebrew and Jewish entities that have existed in the Levant since the invasion of the region as chronicled in the Book of Joshua. As always

the Sinai has held little attraction for the Egyptians. The difficulty of deploying forces in the eastern Sinai poses severe logistical problems for them

a Mediterranean empire that wanted to control both the northern and southern littorals needed to anchor its eastern flank on the Levant. For one thing

it can be a completely independent state. This condition occurs when there are no major imperial powers external to the region. We might call this the David model. Second

this has been impossible. There has been no great power with the appetite and the will for such an adventure. But 15 years is not even a generation

Travel Israel Religion —— HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033521

inescapable accompaniment to Israel is Palestine. A two-state solution is the only strategic and moral answer to the wars since 1948 that have left countless Palestinians bereft of home and dignity

it became clear that Israel had lost the public-opinion contest and may even be forced to relax the embargo on Gaza. Having found that it had done nothing wrong

… the intervening year since the original crisis. Ankara thinks that it is in the driver’s seat not just with respect to Israel

…actical purposes] we are already at the U.N. It's there.... And all those who support the 1967 lines [the border before Israel seized the West Bank during that year's Middle East War] with mutually agreed swap [of land] should support our endeavor.