Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Gaar Adams, “Sick Beats and Sykes-Picot.” Foreign Policy. June 5, 2015. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/05/sick-beats-and-sykes-picot-a-wa-band-yemen-israel-middle-east-music/
Owen Alterman, “The Dead End of Snapback Sanctions: How the P5+1 Proposal Blocks Meaningful Re-imposition of Sanctions on Iran.” INSS Insight No. 713. June 25, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9940
Burak Bekdil, “Post-Election Turkey: Now What?” The Middle East Forum. June 11, 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5307/post-election-turkey
Burak Bekdil, “Turkey and Israel: Starting Over?” The Gatestone Institute. June 28, 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5350/turkey-israel
Daniel Bernstein, “Amsterdam abandons sister city agreement with Tel Aviv.” The Times of Israel. June 25, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/amsterdam-drops-sister-city-agreement-with-tel-aviv/
Ben Caspit, “Marianne flotilla reflects Turkey’s changed Israel stance.” Al-Monitor. June 29, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/06/israel-gaza-flotilla-hamas-turkey-saudi-arabia-egypt-region.html
Maya Cohen and Daniel Siryoti, “Culture minister: Coexistence does not stop at Tel Aviv border.” Israel Hayom. June 11, 2015. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=26113
Robert Einhorn, “A rare bipartisan consensus on the Iran nuclear negotiations.” Brookings. June 26, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/06/26-iran-nuclear-negotiations-bipartisan-consensus-einhorn
Khaled Elgindy, “Palestinian political crisis deepens with collapse of unity government.” Aljazeera America. June 19, 2015. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/19/palestinian-political-crisis-deepens-with-collapse-of-unity-government.html
Meir Elran and Alex Altshuler, “What Can Be Learned from the National Home Front Exercise?” INSS Insight No. 716. July 1, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9971
William A. Galston, “Yair Lapid on Israel’s regional challenges: Thinking beyond the current government.” Brookings. June 9, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/06/09-lapid-multilateral-talks-iran-bds-peace-coalition
Globes Staff, “Israel govt sets up Technology and Innovation Authority.” Globes. June 22, 2015. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-govt-sets-up-technology-and-innovation-authority-1001047072
Yossi Klein Halevi, “Israeli Rock Music’s Spiritual New Sound.” Wall Street Journal. June 12, 2015. http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-rock-musics-spiritual-new-sound-1434122493
Olli Heinonen and Simon Henderson, “How to Make Sure Iran’s One-Year Nuclear Breakout Time Does Not Shrink.” Washington Institute. Policywatch 2436. June 17, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-to-make-sure-irans-one-year-nuclear-breakout-time-does-not-shrink
Orr Hirschauge, “Israeli Army Builds a Desert Outpost—Tech Firms Follow.” The Wall Street Journal. http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-army-builds-a-desert-outposttech-firms-follow-1433525715
I24 News Staff, “’Politics of Dancing’: DJ Can Dyk album faces Arab ban.” i24 News. July 1, 2015. http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/culture/76779-150701-politics-of-dancing-dj-van-dyk-album-faces-arab-ban
Martin Indyk, “U.S. Policy in the Middle East after a Nuclear Deal with Iran.” Testimony submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing. June 3, 2015. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/060315_Indyk_Testimony.pdf
Ambassador James F. Jeffrey, “Implications of the Iran Nuclear Agreement for U.S. Policy in the Middle East.” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Testimony submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. June 3, 2015. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/060315_Jeffrey_Testimony.pdf
Roi Kais, “Terror in the Sinai: Ongoing battles, police under siege, at least 100 dead,” YNetNews, July 1, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4674897,00.html
Abigail Klein Leichman, “12 of the coolest new apps from Israel.” Israel21c. June 11, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/12-of-the-coolest-new-apps-from-israel/
Gallia Lindenstrauss and Ceyhun Çiçekçi, “After the Turkish Parliamentary Elections: Big Hopes, with Remaining Worries.“ INSS Insight. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9888
Guy Lurie, “Appointing Arab Judges to the Courts in Israel.” The Israel Democracy Institute. June 14, 2015. http://en.idi.org.il/analysis/articles/appointing-arab-judges-to-the-courts-in-israel/
David Makovsky and Raquel Saxe, “BDS’s Useless Politics of Confrontation.” Times of Israel. May 22, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/bdss-useless-politics-of-confrontation/
Lauren Mellinger, “New politics of religion and gender in Israel.” Brookings. June 29, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/06/29-israel-gender-politics-religion
Kobi Michael, “Gaza Strip Reconstruction: Navigating the Strategic Dilemmas.” INSS Insight No. 706. June 8, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9754
Gwen Moran, “Meet the female alums of the Israeli Army’s elite tech training school.” Fortune. June 25, 2015. http://fortune.com/2015/06/25/women-israeli-army-tech-training/
Mazal Mualem, “Former IDF lawyer finds UN report on Gaza war ‘relatively balanced.’” Al-Monitor. June 23, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/06/sharvit-baruch-un-commission-gaza-war-report-goldstone.html
Michael E. O’Hanlon, “Deconstructing Syria: A new strategy for America’s most hopeless war.” Brookings. June 30, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/06/30-deconstructing-syria-ohanlon
Daniel Pipes, “Americans Battle the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” Middle East Quarterly. Spring 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5079/americans-battle-the-arab-israeli-conflict
John Podhoretz, “If He Only Had a Heart,” [On Michael Oren’s Book, Ally]. Commentary. July 1, 2015. Commentary. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/if-he-only-had-a-heart/
The Rand Corporation, “The Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” June 2015. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR740.html
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, “The Russians are coming to Saudi Arabia.” Al Sharq al-Awsat. June 21, 2015. http://www.aawsat.net/2015/06/article55344047/opinion-the-russians-are-coming-to-saudi-arabia
Paul Rivlin, “Middle East Uncertainty and Oil Price Stability.” Iqtisadi. The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. vol 5 no 6. June 25, 2015. http://dayan.org/iqtisadi-middle-east-uncertainty-and-oil-price-stability-june-2015
Uri Savir, “Israel, Hamas negotiate, but truce still far off.” Al-Monitor, June 30, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/06/israel-hamas-truce-negotiations-egypt-netanyahu.html
David Schenker and Sarah Feuer, “Beyond Islamists and Autocrats, Prospects for Political Reform Post Arab Spring.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy. June 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/beyond-islamists-and-autocrats-prospects-for-political-reform-post-arab-spr
Chemi Shalev, West of Eden.” Momentous times for U.S. and Obama should make Israelis burn with envy.” Haaretz. Jun. 28, 2015. http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/.premium-1.663290
David Shamah, “Amazon to expand its operations in Israel.” The Times of Israel. July 1, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/amazon-to-expand-its-operations-in-israel/
Guido Steinberg, “Jihadism in Africa Local Cause, Regional Expansion, International Alliances.” German Institute for International and Security Affairs. June 2015. http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publications/swp-research-papers/swp-research-paper-detail/article/jihadismus_in_afrika.html
Bruce Thornton, “The Postcolonial Rot Spreads Beyond Middle East Studies.” FrontPage Magazine. June 15, 2015. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/bruce-thornton/the-postcolonial-rot-spreads-beyond-middle-east-studies/
The Washington Institute, “Public Statement on US Policy Toward the Iran Nuclear Negotiations.” June 24, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/public-statement-on-u.s.-policy-toward-the-iran-nuclear-negotiations
Isabelle Werenfels, “Going ‘Glocal’: Jihadism in Algeria and Tunisia.” German Institute for International and Security Affairs. June 2015. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2015_RP05_sbg_web.pdf#page=51
YNetNews Staff, “Muslims, Jews hold joint iftar meals for Ramadan fast.” YNetNews. June 30, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4674173,00.html
YNetNews Staff, “Former Auschwitz accountant asks God for forgiveness at trial.” YNetNews. July 1, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4675182,00.html