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Jul 8, 2018, 1:43 AM
The Future of the Golan Heights
Ongoing Middle East wars within states are not too dissimilar to those of other regions and times. There are many ceasefires negotiated or impromptu, weather permitting. Ceasefires however are not the end of the conflict. Sometimes resent ferments for...
Jun 26, 2018, 8:33 AM
Trump is winning — Iranians return to the street
The writing is on the wall; the fate of the Iranian Ayatollahs is in their own hands; they are digging their own graves. The average Iranian like any average person in any country can only tolerate so much misery...
Jun 7, 2018, 2:03 PM
Annex the West bank to salvage Palestinian refugees.
Recently there has been a bitter condemnation of left-wing veteran Labour Party Member of Knesset Eitan Cabel. He urged his party to ‘sober up’ and push to annex Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank. He wrote in the...
May 28, 2018, 2:39 AM
Trash Trump in favor of bipartisanism
There is no doubt that President Trump supports Israel more than most of his predecessors. But American Presidents cannot serve more than two consecutive terms. Now approaching half way in President Trump’s first and maybe only term of office...
May 9, 2018, 9:39 PM
Racing against BDS
Sport is not politics. Sport builds bridges. Sport breaks down barriers. Sport is the way to achieve normalization between people and nations. Citizens whose countries don’t have diplomatic relations participate in sport events in each other’s countries. This year...
May 3, 2018, 9:28 PM
Separate policy from politics
Israel needs to separate policy from politics to enhance national security, to prevent a collapse of democracy, to retain judicial integrity and to enhance the identity of Judaism and more. The reason is no more and no less a...
Apr 22, 2018, 8:05 AM
News from Tehran
The news from Teheran this last week is worthy of being summarized for digestion. So let me do so. The highlight once again is President Rouhani who threatens American President Trump not to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal because...
Apr 2, 2018, 11:15 PM
Educated by the details Mr. BDS
There has never been a better time to find a qualified, capable and willing medical doctor, lawyer or accountant if you need one in Israel. There is no shortage. As of March 30, 2018, there are 2,341 medical doctors,...
Mar 15, 2018, 10:08 PM
Friday at the Iranian London Embassy
On the horizon could be a new Arab Spring and indeed a new Revolution in Iran. Watching the Friday lunchtime mosque is a barometer for former in Sunni states while watching the Iranian Embassy in London could well be...
Mar 10, 2018, 10:35 PM
Is Arms Control with Iran Dead?
Amid the wider sense of a global crisis in security and non state threats, there is a deeper long-term threat. That is the risk to arms control. As now as then from Cold War leaders who used arsenals of...
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Dr Glen Segell is Fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies, University of Haifa.