WAR WITH IRAN AND ITS PROXIES:THE NEED TO UPGRADE ISRAELI NUCLEAR DETERRENCE

21 April 2024 Prof. Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971) and is the author of many books and scholarly articles dealing with international law, nuclear strategy, nuclear war, and terrorism. In Israel, Professor Beres was Chair of Project Daniel (PM Sharon). His twelfth and latest book is Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear […]
Oppression and Discrimination of Minorities in Iran: The Azerbaijanis as an example

Dr. Mordechai Kedar The citizens of Iran are not one ethnic unit but many units. The main ethnic groups in Iran are the Persians, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, and Turkmens. There are many other smaller groups as well. The Persians are the ruling minority, and the rest are oppressed with a heavy hand and […]
IISS’s Barry Shaw in conversation with human rights lawyer, Kaveh Moussavi
זהירות מהפוליטיקה המזרח תיכונית

ד”ר מרדכי קידר אם וכאשר תיעלם או תצטמצם הסכנה האיראנית בדרך זו או אחרת, עלולה להיעלם גם הסיבה העיקרית של סעודיה והאמירויות להתקרב לישראל בשנים האחרונות מסתמן שיפור ביחסים בין ישראל ומדינות סוניות חשובות, דוגמת סעודיה ואיחוד האמירויות, ויחסים חדשים אלו מצטרפים להסכמי השלום שיש לישראל עם מצרים החל מ-1979 ועם […]
Beware of Middle Eastern Politics

By Mordechai Kedar If and when the Iranian threat weakens or disappears , we may witness a weakening or the complete disappearance of the main reason Saudi Arabia and the Emirates developed relations with Israel For the past few years, there seems to be a gradual improvement in the relations between […]
INTO THE FRAY – The Elements of Oslo: Drug trafficking & high treason?

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column The Elements of Oslo: Drug trafficking & high treason? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) The arrest of former Minister Gonen Segev, on charges of treason, constitute a regrettable vindication of my assessment of the man – over 25 years ago. It appears this […]
INTO THE FRAY: Iran & the chilling significance of the “No Alternative” argument

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column: Iran & the chilling significance of the “No Alternative” argument (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) The attempt to justify the 2015 deal with Iran, as being the only viable alternative to allowing it to develop nuclear weapons, is both infuriating and […]
INTO THE FRAY – Iran: Are the wheels falling off Obama’s “signature” foreign policy endeavor?

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column: Iran: Are the wheels falling off Obama’s “signature” foreign policy endeavor? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) The ongoing turmoil in Iran highlights both the duplicity to which the Obama administration resorted & the missed opportunity for a better deal. It appears this week […]
INTO THE FRAY – Obama: Worse than Chamberlain?

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column: Obama: Worse than Chamberlain? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) “Iran will become a nuclear power. The only mystery over how that will happen is whether Obama was inept or whether he deliberately sought to make the theocracy…a strategic power.”– Victor Davis Hanson It […]
INTO THE FRAY : BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD- IRAN IN SYRIA & THE LESSONS FOR ISRAEL.

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column: BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD- IRAN IN SYRIA & THE LESSONS FOR ISRAEL. (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) Only by resisting territorial concessions on the Golan, Israel prevented deployment of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the fringes of the Galilee; only by […]
INTO THE FRAY: Israel’s ruinous right

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column: Israel’s ruinous right (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) Perhaps the gravest threat facing the nation today is the twin perils of a dangerous, delusional “Left” and an impotent, incompetent “Right”, unable to decisively and definitively discredit it. It appears this week on the […]
INTO THE FRAY: Decertifying Iran- A moral imperative. But now what?

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column: Decertifying Iran- A moral imperative. But now (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) As the experience of 2003 shows, Iran will only abandon its nuclear program if confronted by what it perceives to be a tangible military threat It appears this week on the […]