Category: Arab affairs

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Riling-up the Beduin

Radical Arab nationalists, the Islamic Movement, and the EU are provoking the Beduin to resist Israel’s benevolent development plans.
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American “fixes” for the Middle East?

With the broader Middle East making mincemeat out of Obama's hopey-changey policies and ill-advised “fixes,” one has to wonder whether American opinion or policy is the best medicine for Israel. "Bambi" of America doesn't always correctly comprehend the "Godzillas" of the Middle East.
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Counting the Dead in Syria

The count of 60,000 people killed in Syria over the past 22 months is double the estimated casualty count of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the past 45 years.
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R.I.P. Syria?

Ten experts at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies debate the implications of the Syrian civil war. They say: Israel should stay out of the conflict, but prepare for continued instability as Syria breaks up. A 10,000-word Jerusalem Post Magazine story written by me.
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Beware of Blowback

You have to question the wisdom of dumping sophisticated weapons systems into the currently turbulent and rapidly Islamicizing Middle East.
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Saudi Dissimulation

If Crown Prince Nayef wanted to lead the Arab world towards peace with Israel, he could find a way or two to express his "moderation" clearly. But the Saudis always seem to hew to the p.r. minimum.
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