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Ariel Harkham
Earlier this month, kids in Southern Israel received a never-before seen fireworks show. Hamas-deployed over 100 rockets and mortars over Israel’s entire southern region. To counter the attack, Israel decided to employ its much-anticipated anti-missile defense, which destroyed more then 10 of these..
Ariel Harkham
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Ariel Harkham
As it appeared in Ynet 02/03/2011 / / / Riveted by the populist uprising now raging on the streets of the Arab world, one can't help being astonished by the events taking place in Egypt, the largest Arab state in the world. Until very recently, Egypt was considered by most Western political analysts..
Ariel Harkham
Yossi Beilin’s opinion piece “The New Ghetto” (Jerusalem Post, August 8) which compared today’s State of Israel to the Jewish ghettos of history, reminded me of the disturbing feelings I had as a small child, upon reading those verses in the Torah where the Jews, newly liberated from Egypt, cried out..
Ariel Harkham
June 18, 2010 / / / With Turkey turning toward the East and its relationship with Israel left in tatters, the question stands where does Israel turn? Morocco represents the greatest potential for political alliance for an Israel searching for a state to serve as a bridge to the Muslim world. The..
Eugene Epshteyn
/ / / / By Eugene Epshteyn / / / It seems everyone today has their two cents to add on how to handle Israel's supposed "crisis at sea." For the record, Israel faces double standards that no country faces today -- even North Korea, which torpedoed a South Korean naval vessel killing 46 sailors..
Michael Weinberg
/ / / / Questions from Across the Globe, From the Cradle to the Grave / The refusal of Israel’s Supreme Court to incarcerate Anat Kam regarding charges of theft, espionage, and treason against the State of Israel has millions confused and seeking answers. Why is Anat Kam under house arrest while..
JNI
/ The media in modern democracy is the channel between the state and the individual, and therefore has immense power. Common to all descriptions of the relationship between the media and political institutions is an implicit understanding that a deep, evolving, and uneasy relationship exists between..
Raphael & Ariel Harkham
This is an "if, then" piece, that attempts to provide Israel's current government a suggestion if they do decide to bring back Gilad, how they could still gain the initiative in the face of such tough choices.
David Matlin
The narrow streets were dark and filled with sounds. Figures moved behind blackened windows in the overbearing buildings. Finger on the trigger, senses focused on my surroundings, I ensured my fellow Jews the right to pray at the grave of one of our revered figures.  /   / I was filled with a profound..
Ariel Harkham
As it appeared in the Jerusalem Post Sep. 7, 2009  / / Earlier this month, Ori Nir, a spokesman for Americans for Peace Now and former Haaretz reporter, revealed an alarming, even terrifying, bit of news in an opinion piece for the Washington Jewish Week: There are bogeymen in the hills of Israel...
Raphael Harkham
In the wake of the upsurge in activity surrounding Gilad Schalit, it bears remembering that there are compelling reasons for the Israeli government to pause before releasing hundreds of terrorists for his return. Needless to say, Noam and Aviva Schalit are doing what every parent would and should do,..
Ashley Rindsberg
What if Iran got nuclear weapons? This geopolitical thought-experiment is not as radical as it might sound – at least not for people in the policy world. It is, after all, a scenario of the political game Washington is grappling with on the Iran issue and it's almost certain that President Obama,..
Ashley Rindsberg
"Who am I?" -- the first three words of Nadja, the surrealist novel by the father of the movement, Andre Breton. Even if you've never read these words, said them out loud, or thought them explicitly, they still feel intimately familiar.  / "Who am I?" is the individual's question, the poetic..
Daniel Fink
Last month Israel and Syria revealed that “track two” peace talks were taking place through Turkish mediators. These talks, led in large part by the foreign policy activism of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are indicative of the changing foreign policy priorities pursued by Turkey’s ruling..
  / / / / / Azerbaijan / / / / / Azerbaijan presents Israel with a major strategic relations opportunity. Look to the JNI paper about specific policy recommendations for Israel with regard to Azerbaijan,..
[The following is a letter to the editor of Adbusters magazine in response to a number of articles on the adbusters.org homepage in early 2005.] / Dear Editor, / / This is, in all likelihood, an exercise in extreme futility; but what else can I do. I first have to say that I respect and admire what..
Daniel Fink
The foreign policy blog (http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/8593) recently posted a piece written by a blogger for the Guardian's Comment is Free. Richard Silverstein criticizes Israel for its "righteous indignation" over Swiss gas contracts with Iran, considering that, according to his pseudo-expertise,..
Tzvi Za'ev
This paper seeks to build on the growing discourse regarding the strategic imperative for Israel to bolster its relations with non-aligned states in East Asia. [1]Rather than expanding on the reasons for cultivating these relationships (this issue can be found in forthcoming JNI strategic papers), this..
Ashley Rindsberg
Only hours after a bomb ripped through a parking lot at Madrid's international airport, Spain's leftist prime minister, Jose Zapatero, declared a halt to negotiations with the alleged perpetrators of the bombing, the Basque independence group, ETA. / / In a press conference following the bombing,..

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