Contemporary Readings

#25 Contemporary Readings and Analyses, March 2015

March 31, 2015

Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu

 

Danny Adeno Abebe, “Israel Fear for Safety of Yemen’s Remaining Few Jews.” YNet. March 26, 2015.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4641205,00.html

Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, “Archive of Jabhat al-Nusra Billboards and Murals.” Rubin Center: Research in International Affairs.March 24, 2015. http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/03/archive-of-jabhat-al-nusra-billboards-and-murals/

Asharq Al-Awsat Staff, “Arab-Israeli political leaders reject Netanyahu’s apology.” Asharq Al-Awsat. March 24, 2015.http://www.aawsat.net/2015/03/article55342561/arab-israeli-political-leaders-reject-netanyahus-apology

Asharq Al-Awsat Staff, “Saudi airstrikes target rebel bases in Yemen.” Asharq Al-Awsat. March 26, 2015.http://www.aawsat.net/2015/03/article55342593/saudi-airstrikes-target-rebel-bases-in-yemen

Associated Press, “Yehuda Avner, Israeli diplomat and prime minister aide, dies.” Middle East Institute. March 25, 2015.http://www.mei.edu/content/news/yehuda-avner-israeli-diplomat-and-prime-minister-aide-dies

Samer Atallah, “Great Expectations: The Egypt Economic Conference.” Middle East Institute. March 11, 2015.http://www.mei.edu/content/article/great-expectations-egypt-economic-conference

Olena Bagno-Moldavsky. “The Jewish Diaspora and the Russo-Ukrainian Crisis ‘Russie.Nei.Visions,’” IFRI. March 2015.http://www.ifri.org/en/publications/enotes/russieneivisions/jewish-diaspora-and-russo-ukrainian-crisis

Ron Ben-Yishai, “The US Dropped the Ball on Yemen,” YNET News. March 26, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4641278,00.html

Yaacov Benmeleh, “Shekel Weakens as Israeli Government to Central Bank Buy Dollars.” Bloomberg Business. March 25, 2014.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-25/shekel-weakens-as-israeli-government-to-central-bank-buy-dollars

Ronen Bergman, “Interview (about the Middle East) with General David Petreaus,” Ynet News. March 9, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4635109,00.html

Matthew RJ Brodsky, “Lessons from Israel’s Elections.” The World Post. March 27, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-rj-brodsky/lessons-from-israels-elec_b_6944912.html

Antony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State, “Update on Iran Negotiations,” Testimony Before House Foreign Affairs CommitteeHouse.gov Website. March 19, 2015. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20150319/103186/HHRG-114-FA00-Wstate-BlinkenA-20150319.pdf

Naomi Chazan, “Making Sense of the Israeli Elections,” Fathom. Winter-2015. http://fathomjournal.org/making-sense-of-the-israeli-elections/

Cole Bunzel and William McCants, “Experts weigh in (part 1): How does ISIS approach Islamic scripture?” Brookings. March 24, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/03/24-isis-approach-to-islamic-scripture-part-one-bunzel

Daniel L. Byman and Jennifer R.William, “AQ vs. IS and the battle for the soul of jihad.” Brookings. March 24, 2015.http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/03/24-lawfare-byman-williams-battle-soul-jihad

Naomi Chazan, “Making Sense of the Israeli Elections.” Fathom Journal. Winter, 2015. http://fathomjournal.org/making-sense-of-the-israeli-elections/

Ran Dagoni, “US fails to renew emergency oil supply pact with Israel,” Globes. March 16, 2015. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-us-fails-to-renew-oil-supply-agreement-with-israel-1001018925

Alan Dershowitz, “Guess who’s not speaking at J Street Conference,” Jerusalem Post. March 20, 2015.http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Dershowitz-in-special-to-JPost-Guess-whos-not-speaking-at-the-J-Street-Conference-394583

Oded Eran, ” Prime Minister Netanyahu in the US Congress: Did the Ends Justify the Means?” Institute for National Security Studies. March 4, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=8898

Oded Eran, “A New Government in Israel: Circumventing the Expected.” Institute for National Security Studies. March 24, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9021

Alex Fishman, “ US Foreign policy detached from reality [after Iran negotiations].” Y-Net, March 30, 2015,http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4642147,00.html

Jacob Heilbrunn, “Republicans’ Israel Problem.” The National Interest. March 25, 2015.http://nationalinterest.org/feature/republicans-israel-problem-12482

Olli Heinonen, “Iran’s Nuclear Breakout Time: A Fact Sheet,”, Washington Institute for Near East Policy. March 28, 2015.http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-nuclear-breakout-time-a-fact-sheet

Simon Henderson, “Saudi Arabia’s Big Gamble, Foreign Policy. March 26, 2015. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/26/saudi-arabias-big-gamble%E2%80%8B-yemen-airstrikes/

Efraim Inbar, “Security Challenges of the New Israeli Government.” BESA Center. March 19, 2015. http://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Inbar-Efraim-The-Security-Challenges-of-the-New-Government-PP291-19-March-2015.pdf

Avi Issacharoff, “Hamas digs new terror tunnels up to, but not across, border.” Times of Israel. March 25, 2015.http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-rebuilding-tunnels-near-but-not-across-border-sources/

Justin Julil, “Dead Sea sinkholes growing at alarming rate.” Times of Israel. March 21, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/dead-sea-sinkholes-growing-at-alarming-rate/

Tara Kangarlou, “Imprisoned IS members open up to Lebanese social workers,” Al-Monitor. March 10, 2015. http://tinyurl.com/q68m3ba

Debra Kamin, “In Israel, Opera Echoes From Rocks and Ruins.” New York Times. March 18, 2015.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/travel/in-israel-opera-echoes-from-rocks-and-ruins.html?_r=0

Michael Knights, “Assisting the Arab Military Intervention in Yemen,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy. March 27, 2015.http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/assisting-the-arab-military-intervention-in-yemen

Abigail K. Leichman, “No Longer Taboo: Haredim Enter High Tech.” Israel 21c. March 5, 2015.http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/no-longer-taboo-haredim-enter-high-tech/

Thomas Lippman, “Saudi Arabia’s High-Stakes Gamble,” Middle East Institute. March 27, 2015. http://www.mei.edu/content/at/saudi-arabia%E2%80%99s-high-stakes-gamble

Michael Margolit, Meet Israel’s New Lawmakers,” Ynet News. March 20, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4639073,00.html

Chris Matthews, “Israel’s other war: Income inequality and rising prices.” Fortune. March 25, 2015.http://fortune.com/2015/03/25/israel-income-inequality/

Anat Meidan, “Inside the failure of the Zionist Union Campaign.” Ynet. March 21, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4639291,00.html

Ahmed Melhelm, “The deepening rift between Fatah and Hamas,” al-Monitor. March 20, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/03/palestine-hamas-fatah-plo-accusations.html

Kobi Michael and Udi Dekel, “Recalculating the Gaza Route: Reconstruction of an Autonomous Area with Protected Zones.”Institute for National Security Studies. March 9, 2015.  http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=8924

Cheisi Mueller, “Anglo-Iranian Treaty Negotiations: Reza Shah, Teymurtash and the British Government, 1927–32.” Francis and Taylor Online. March 16, 2015. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00210862.2015.1016820#abstract

Jacques Neriah, “The Libyan Quagmire.” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. March 25, 2015. http://jcpa.org/article/the-libyan-quagmire/

Alisa Odenheimer, “Taming Israel’s Housing Prices to Test Rising Star Kahlon.” Bloomberg Business. March 24, 2014.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/taming-israel-s-home-prices-to-test-rising-political-star-kahlon

Orit Perlov, “Israel, Hamas and Hizbollah on a Collision Course: Undesirable yet Inevitable.” Institute for National Security Studies. March 16, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=8976

Itamar Radai, “Muslim and Druze in Israel: National and Sectarian Identities in Conflict.” The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. March 10, 2015. http://www.dayan.org/tel-aviv-notes-9-no-5-march-10-2015

Paul Rivlin, “The Blame Game, Part 2.” The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. March 19, 2015.http://www.dayan.org/iqtisadi-5-no-3-march-19-2015

Ceng Sagnic and Ofra Bengio, “Kurdistan in a ‘War Game:’ Inching towards Independence.” Rudaw. March 18, 2015.http://rudaw.net/english/opinion/170320151

Jonathan Schanzer, “Why the Media Always Get Israeli Elections Wrong.” Politico. March 18, 2015. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/israeli-election-benjamin-netanyahu-116196.html?ml=m_u1_1#.VQ0vhNLF_Tr

Michael Segall, “A Bad Agreement with Iran Will Undermine Middle East Stability.” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. March 2, 2015. http://jcpa.org/article/a-bad-agreement-with-iran-will-undermine-middle-east-stability/

Michael Segall, “Iran’s Defiance: Flaunting a Cruise Missile with 2,500 Km. Range.” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. March 10, 2015. http://jcpa.org/article/irans-cruise-missile-2500km-range/

David Shamah, “China giant Alibaba teams up with Israeli VC for investments.” Times of Israel. March 23, 2015.http://www.timesofisrael.com/china-giant-alibaba-teams-up-with-israeli-vc-for-investments/

David Shamah, “Tim Cook: Apple’s Herzliya R&D center second-largest in world.” Times of Israel. February 27, 2015.http://www.timesofisrael.com/apples-herzliya-rd-center-now-second-largest-in-world/

Ari Shavit, “Is Israel Losing its Soul?” Politico Magazine. March 20, 2015. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/israeli-elections-israel-future-116266.html#.VRCwavzF-So

Michael Singh, “What Congress’s Iran Letter Signals About Obama’s Diplomacy,” Wall Street Journal. March 12, 2015,http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/what-congresss-iran-letter-signals-about-obamas-diplomacy

Yiftah Shapir and Yoel Guzansky, “A Bridge over the Mediterranean: The French-Egyptian Arms Deal.” Institute for National Security Studies. March 12, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=8963

Adam J. Szubin, Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, US Department of Treasury, “Negotiations with Iran: Blocking or Paving Tehran’s Path to Nuclear Weapons,” Testimony Before House Foreign Affairs CommitteeHouse.gov Website, March 19, 2015. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20150319/103186/HHRG-114-FA00-Wstate-SzubinA-20150319.pdf

Sharon Udasin, “CA congressman submits bipartisan request for US-Israeli energy cooperation funds.” Jerusalem Post. March 26, 2015. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/CA-congressman-submits-bipartisan-request-for-US-Israeli-energy-cooperation-funds-395251

Alex Vatanka, “Does Iran Have a ‘Bridge’ to Central Asia?” Middle East Institute. March 20, 2015.http://www.mei.edu/content/article/does-iran-have-bridge-central-asia

Justus Reid Weiner, “Israel and the Gaza Strip: Why Economic Sanctions are not Collective Punishment.” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. 2015. http://jcpa.org/gaza-economic-sanctions/

Sharon Wrobel, “Immigration seen fueling Israeli housing boom.” Bloomberg. March 15, 2015.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-15/israel-immigration-seen-fueling-real-estate-boom-amid-shortage

Sadegh Zibakalam, “Why Iran’s Hardliners Fear a Deal: A nuclear pact means our regime will have to surrender its No.1 justification for its actions: anti-Americanism.” Politico. March 25, 2015. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/iran-nuclear-deal-116296.html?hp=m3#.VRQSdxDF_ns

 

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