Epstein Secrets

f anything resembling a grand strategy, the Obama administration seemed, and still seems, primarily animated by a desire to reduce its footprint in the Middle East. It is in Syria that the puzzling absence of American leadership has served to confirm just how important the United States still is. Without U.S.

which serves to expose the utter mendacity and preposterousness of the Israeli feat at the United Nations. Yehuda Shenav, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University, asserted this fact in an article published in Israeli daily Haaretz in 2006. In that article, entitled 'Arab Jews, Palestinian refugees and Israel

nt Jimmy Carter and in every administration since (except George W. Bush's), Dennis Ross has played a bigger role in setting American policy toward the Middle East than perhaps any other official who didn't occupy the Oval Office. Most recently, Ross was special assistant to President Obama and the National Se

onal EFTA00712751 Affairs (of Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Goverment). He was head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Artick 2. Al-Hayat Egypt Infiltrates the Turkish-Saudi-Iranian Trio? George Semaan 3 September 2012 -- The new regime in Egypt has sent a sign

es the people agree to forego their desire to replace their leaders. (Truly, East Asian autocracies have not robbed people of their dignity the way Middle Eastern ones have.) But even as such growth rates continue unabated—to say nothing of if they collapse or even slow down—at higher income levels, this soci

Occupied Territories and head of military intelligence. Mark Heller is principal research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University. EFTA_R1_02029839 EFTA02690072 I() Article 3. The Daily Star What the Arab revolts leave unanswered Rami G. Khouri June 25, 2011 -- My pleas

76195 survive war with Iran. In 2012, Mr Obama strikes a much flintier leader on the world stage. If he can build "strategic trust" with China in the Middle East, the habit could take hold elsewhere. One might say that the road to Xanadu goes through Tehran and Jerusalem. If he cannot, then he faces a tough

a state we have institutions and within the institutions you have a division of labor," cautioned Shaul Mishal, a professor of political science at Tel Aviv University who wrote a book on Hamas. "Hamas maybe dreams about being a state, and Qassam, sometimes they delude themselves that they are an army, but at the

not end the conflict. But it could make it far more manageable. Yossi Alpher coedits bitterlemons.net and is former director of the Jaffee Center at Tel Aviv University. Colette Avital, former ambassador and deputy speaker of the Knesset, is international secretary of the Israel Labor Party. Maj. Gen. Shlomo Gazit wa

cause they unquestioningly back Israel or support Arab autocrats. Should those policies be moderated and replaced by more even-handed postures toward the Middle East, newly liberated Arab citizens would probably be too busy building their new countries to allow themselves to be distracted by lingering resentments