Results tagged “Jerusalem”

In the last decade, one of the areas in the peace process where Israeli governments--as well as American administrations--failed was anticipating the "day-after". Those who advised Ariel Sharon to adopt the disengagement from the Gaza Strip probably did not anticipate that after Israel withdrew, the rate of yearly rocket fire...

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...

Israel has not yet declared its detailed positions in future talks with the Palestinians, and for understandable reasons. At this point, the government is justly focusing on the Iranian issue, which constitutes an existential threat. This is the context in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducted his visit in Washington...

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...