Results tagged “Iraq”

Israel Hayom - Friday December 23, 2011The final withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq this week raises the question of Baghdad's future role along Israel's eastern front. Historically, it is perhaps forgotten that Iraq was once a confrontation state. With remarkable consistency, Iraq, under various governments, dispatched one third of...

Speaking before Israel's ambassadors from around the world two months ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explained his view about how to create effective security arrangements in the event of an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement. He decided to stress that to safeguard the demilitarization of the West Bank, it was vital for...

In the corridors of power in Washington, it is increasingly recognized privately that the US will not be able to halt the Iranian nuclear program and therefore the Obama Administration's Plan B is to rely on deterrence. They hope that the US and its allies can deter Iran the same way...

The US and its allies are planning to ratchet up severe sanctions against Iran, in light of the decision of the leadership of the Islamic Republic to rebuff Western diplomatic offers and to go ahead with domestic enrichment of its low-enriched uranium to the 20 per cent level. This new...

With Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah Halevi -- Studying the recent statements of Col. (ret.) Desmond Travers, the Irish military man who sat on the Goldstone panel, I couldn't believe what I was reading, when he argued that Israel used thermal sensitive UAV's to look inside of Palestinian homes in...

Just when President Barack Obama is facing mounting criticism over his domestic agenda for the US, one of the leading American journals of international relations, Foreign Policy, published a cover story for its January/February issue comparing Obama to Jimmy Carter, who is widely perceived as having been a failed president....

In the West there is a growing trend to view Hamas as separate from al-Qaeda in order to open a political dialogue with Hamas, but is this view correct? In its annual survey of terrorist threats to Israel during 2009, the Israel Security Agency noted the spread and buildup...