Epstein Secrets

n Israel the threat is especially acute. And the concern comes not only from its most persistent critics. The former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert have both warned of a descent into apartheid, xenophobia, and isolation. The political corrosion begins, of course, with the occupation of the Pal

ovoke a military response from the U.S. February brought more posturing from Iran, along with two assassination attempts against Israelis living in New Delhi and Tbilisi that were widely attributed to Tehran. EFTA00630419 All of this has played out against the unhelpful backdrop of American election-y

-Prime Minister Ehud Ol=ert could snatch votes away from his Likud party if he decides to throw hi= hat in the ring. In fact, there are rumors that Olmert was planning to an=ounce his candidacy precisely on Wednesday evening. But the military actio= codenamed "Pillar of Defense" upset his plans. Defen

nd conventional plans. Both sides thus derive important advantages fro= their nuclear arsenals. (For India, these advantages are supra-regional, =s New Delhi looks nervously to a rising Beijing next-door.) Neither will erer give up nukes. The author's own sense of the dynamics of a multipolar nuclear worl

foreign policy and on the European Commission's Middle East desk in Brussels. She has also worked with refugees via United Nations Refugee Agency in New Delhi. Nur has an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. FABRICE AIDAN Fabrice Aidan graduated from the Ecoles de Hautes Etudes C

nese leaders brokered by Qatar. 21 May 2008 Israel and Syria announce holding indirect talks through Turkish mediation. 30 July 2008 Prime Minister Olmert announces he is not seeking re-election. 15 October 2008 Establishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon. 16 December 2008 Last mee

ccords of December 2003 led by PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo and former Israeli Minister Yossi Beilin. The stalemate in the process continued until Ehud Olmert’s election as Prime Minister in 2006. Through intense negotiations facilitated by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her team, the parties came