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INTO THE FRAY: The Bahrain Conference: Failure Foretold

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column The Bahrain Conference: Failure Foretold (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray) The endeavor to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by economic means not only shows a grave defect in understanding its underlying causes, but inverts the causal relationship that generates & sustains it It appears […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Cracks in the Dome?

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Cracks in the Dome? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray) The huge investments made in defensive systems are slowly emerging as an exorbitant and costly failure—or at best a very partial and temporary success. The time has come to rethink Israel’s strategic paradigm. It […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Let the PA collapse

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column  Let the PA collapse (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray) Despite possible short term difficulties, Israel should seize on the impending collapse of the Palestinian Authority as an opportunity to extricate itself from the deadly cul-de-sac, into which the Oslo process has lured it […]

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