Results for “International Peace Institute”

another Israeli unit broke through to the Beirut-Damascus road. On the far side of Lebanon’s capital city, they linked up with Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists. I remember a mix of feelings at the time. Partly, amazement that through sheer determination and political maneuvering, Ar...

Chapter One I am an Israeli, but also a Palestinian. I was born in February 1942 in British- ruled Palestine on a fledgling kibbutz: a cluster of wood-and-tarpaper huts amid a few orange groves and vegetable fields and chicken coops. It was just across the road from an Arab vill...

2] Article 7. Hurriyet Why Golda Meir was right Burak Bekdil August 23, 2011 -- It has been more than two and a half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told to Israeli President Shimon Peres’s face, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” Prime Minister Erdogan has...

Article 2. NYT Parties See Obama’s Israel Policy as Wedge for 2012 Jackie Calmes and Helene Cooper May 25, 2011 — Few issues in American politics are as bipartisan as support for Israel. Yet the question of whether President Obama is supportive enough is behind some of the mo...

16 If only the Syrians could be brought around, presidents have believed for generations, life would be so much easier. The United States wasn't alone in this illusion -- the Israelis, Arabs, Europeans, and Russians felt the same way. Like the Wall Street banks, Syria was then,...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 placing a sacred institution entirely in the hands of the church while placing a secular institution under state control. Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson would surely have approved. Although this proposal may sound radical, it does not differ fundamentally...

we consider what not to do. The first approach proposes something known appealingly enough as “Smart Power.”5” The concept was summarized most sharply by President Obama in 2014, when he said American policy ought best be guided by this tight precept: “Don’t do stupid stuff.5®” A...

even if the result is similar: Mass gatherings, control of some essential public space - a square, a stock exchange, a park. All organized, it appears, using completely ethereal techniques: Text messages, video postings, chat rooms. Similar movements appear around in the world. I...

…kable. 1. Brian Whitmore, “Vladimir Putin, Conservative Icon,” Atlantic, December 20, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/ar- chive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/?single_page=true. 2. Ivo Oliveira, “National Front Seeks Russian Cash for Election Fig...

…s or the politicized rewriting of history, especially in countries, like Russia and China, that are integrated into the international university system. We urge universities to reject the establishment of projects and study departments—whether at home or overseas—that do not adhe...

…bility, either disregarding the harm imposed or convincing ourselves that it was justified, even obligatory. In several international studies of school-aged children, results consistently show that those who are most morally disengaged are most likely to engage in various forms o...

…ttoo. Aaron Sorkin becomes the face of the film and an immediate shoo-in for the adapted screenplay Oscar. The Hamptons International Film Festival in October suddenly becomes a launching pad for 127 Hours, where star-cum-Yale/NYU student James Franco appears. More Oscar buzz. Pr...

…ntified as Virginia Roberts, one ; chamber.” . of the services Maxwell provided for Epstein was the procure- owed by an international scan- ; ment of underage women. (Through her lawyer and in court hundreds of millions of pounds bE papers, Maxwell has vehemently denied any invol...

…s Saatchi's gallery and Channel 4. Their work is part of The House of the Nobleman, an exhibition of art borrowed from international collections that is being staged in an 18th-century mansion in Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, a stone's throw from the Frieze Art Fair. Four of...

…A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very > interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International > Health organization. > > Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis: > > U.S. 65% > > England 46% > > Canada 4...