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A flawed democracy - but still one to be proud of
17/01/2016 - 17:52
On January 16, 2011, on Avenue Habib Bourghiba in Tunis, during one of the clashes between protesters and police who weren’t sure what they... →
The Last Temptation of Barack Obama and John Kerry
12/01/2016 - 20:00
It’s clearly a counterintuitive call. Any number of reasons would argue against “doing anything” — high odds of failure, tensions with... →
The Global Economy Confronts Four Geopolitical Risks
30/12/2015 - 15:11
The geopolitical danger arises from Putin’s growing reliance on military action abroad – in Ukraine and now in Syria – to maintain his... →
Israel 2016 Forecast
30/12/2015 - 14:53
Unemployment is low even as more and more of the population joins the workforce. The increases we suffered in rates of poverty and... →
A changed Middle East
20/12/2015 - 15:36
Around the world, people looked on in joy as the upheaval in the Arab world began. They hoped that the youth of Tahrir Square and their... →
Cozying up to Russia may cost Israel dearly
03/12/2015 - 15:59
Meeting on the sidelines of the COP21 Paris climate summit, Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked for 45 minutes, about... →
A Path Out of the Middle East Collapse
20/10/2015 - 10:18
That geopolitical pattern is now in shambles. Four states in the region have ceased to function as sovereign. Libya, Yemen, Syria and Iraq... →
Israel's strategic position 'enhanced by chaos of Arab neighbourhood'
11/06/2015 - 13:27
In military terms, Israel looks unassailable. Moshe Yaalon, the defence minister, said that Syria no longer posed a conventional threat –... →
The Art of Avoiding War
26/05/2015 - 10:59
Idanthyrsus replied that since his people had neither cities nor cultivated land for an enemy to destroy, they had nothing to defend, and... →
The War with Radical Islam
17/01/2015 - 14:03
From the jihadist perspective – the one that American or French Muslims, for example, may pick up in training camps in Afghanistan, Syria,... →
The Unraveling
02/01/2015 - 13:42
There is also renewed instability on the periphery of Europe. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia appears to have given up on the... →
The Arab World’s Vanishing Christians
20/12/2014 - 14:41
The rise of political Islam following the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War in 1967 dealt another blow to religious minorities. By promoting Islamic... →

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