Contemporary Readings

#30 Contemporary Readings and Analyses, August 2015

September 3, 2015

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

Ephraim Asculai, “The Unbelievable Side Agreements with Iran,” The Jerusalem Post, August 24, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-unbelievable-side-agreements-with-Iran-413137

Julie Bort, “The Startup Scene in Israel is Going Bonkers, and the Chinese Are Swooping In,” Business Insider, August 13, 2015, http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-all-over-israel-startups-2015-8

Steven A. Cook, “The Real Reason Turkey is Fighting ISIL,” Politico Magazine, August 21, 2015, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/turkey-fighting-isil-isis-erdogan-long-game-chess-121603

Udi Dekel and Omer Einav, “Revising the National Security Concept: The Need for a Strategy of Multidisciplinary Impact,” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 16, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10318

Jackson Diehl, “Why Iran will not give up Syria,” The Washington Post, August 2, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-iran-wont-give-up-syria/2015/08/02/b9269fa2-360c-11e5-9d0f-7865a67390ee_story.html

Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer, “The Iran Deal Will Unchain Top Ayatollah’s Terror Slush Fund,” The New York Post, August 9, 2015, http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dubowitz-mark-the-iran-deal-will-unchain-top-ayatollahs-terror-slush-fund/#sthash.d7zynz73.dpuf

Michael Eisenstadt, “How the Iran Deal Could Complicate US Efforts to Prevent Nuclear Breakout,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 31, 2015, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-the-iran-deal-could-complicate-u.s.-efforts-to-prevent-a-nuclear-breako

Michael Eisenstadt, Simon Henderson, Michael Knights, Matthew Levitt and Andrew Tabler, “The Regional Impact of Additional Iranian Money,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 28, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-regional-impact-of-additional-iranian-money

Oded Eran, “When will the US Sanctions on Iran be Lifted and by Whom,” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 20, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10367

Shmuel Even, “IDF Strategy and the Responsibility of the Political Leadership,” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 19, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10366

David Francis, “The Chosen One,” Foreign Policy Magazine, August 28, 2015, http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/28/the-chosen-one-adam-szubin-israel-iran-nuclear-deal-obama/

Michael Gerson,”How the nuclear deal will fund Iran’s imperialism,” Washington Post, August 3, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-deal-to-fund-iranian-imperialism/2015/08/03/a0ab57bc-3a10-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html

Buzzy Gordon, “Noa Shines Under Jerusalem’s Full Moon,” YNet Magazine, August 14, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4690142,00.html

Philip Gordon, “King Salman Comes to Washington,” Politico Magazine, September 1, 2015, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/mag-saudi-gordon-213101

Alexander H. Joffe, Why Empower Iran?The Times of Israel, August 3, 2015, http://www.meforum.org/5417/why-empower-iran

Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamini, “Assessing U.S. and Coalition Strategy for Syria and the Islamic State, Rubin Center, August 12, 2015, http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/08/assessing-u-s-and-coalition-strategy-for-syria-and-the-islamic-state/

Saeed Kamali Dehghan, “Barenboim to Take Berlin Orchestra to Iran Despite Protests from Israel,” The Guardian, August 27, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/27/daniel-barenboim-berlin-orchestra-iran-israel-protests

Herb Keinon, “Matisyahu: Anti-Semitism at Spanish Festival Was Something I Never Experienced Before,” Jerusalem Post, August 30,2015, http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Matisyahu-Anti-Semitism-at-Spanish-reggae-festival-was-something-I-never-experienced-before-413733

Mehdi Khaliji, “Iran’s Shifting Nuclear Narratives,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 12, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-shifting-nuclear-narratives

Abigail Klein Leichman, “$75 Million Autism Center to Open in Jerusalem,” Israel21c, August 15, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/75-million-autism-center-to-open-in-jerusalem/

Eric Knecht, “INTERVIEW—Egypt Says Zohar Gas Find Will Not Undermine Talks on Imports from Israel,” Reuters, September 2, 2015, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/02/egypt-energy-israel-idUKL4N11834820150902

Yossi Kuperwasser and Alan Baker, “Vital Points on the Iran Deal: Major Flaws and Positive Elements,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 27, 2015, http://jcpa.org/article/vital-points-on-the-iran-deal-major-flaws-and-positive-elements/

Emily Landau and Shimon Stein, “Israel and the Iran Nuclear Deal: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold?” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 18, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10334

Madison Margolin, “A-Wa’s Unlikely Journey from Rural Israel to Global Fame,” Forward, August 6, 2015, http://forward.com/culture/music/318147/a-wa-a-yemenite-israeli-pop-trio-gains-popularity-around-the-world/

Jay Michaelson, “Jerusalem Pride Organizer: ‘It was Horrible,”’ Forward, August 3, 2015, http://forward.com/news/israel/318370/jerusalem-pride-organizer-it-was-horrible/

Mazal Mualem, “Israeli Minister Pushes for Improved Gender Equality,” Al-Monitor, August 27, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/israel-social-equality-gamliel-interview-arab-women-likud.html

Barak Obama, “The Iran Nuclear Deal at American University,” August 5, 2015, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/05/remarks-president-iran-nuclear-deal

Wendy Parker, “Israeli Film Director Visiting Emory University as Artist in Residence,” 90.1 WABE, August 28, 2015, http://wabe.org/post/israeli-film-director-visiting-emory-artist-residence

George Perkovich, Mark Hibbs, James M Action, and Toby Dalton, “Parsing the Ian Deal,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 6, 2015, http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/08/06/parsing-iran-deal/iec5

Jenna Perlman, “Birthright Excel Gives Students a Taste of Israeli Hi-Tech,” Jerusalem Post, August 5, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Birthright-Excel-gives-students-a-taste-of-Israeli-hi-tech-411157

Samadar Perry, “An Egyptian Voice in Tel Aviv,” YNet Magazine, August, 29, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4695553,00.html

Daniel Pipes, “What If Tehran Turns Down the Nuclear Deal?” The Washington Times, August 20, 2015, http://www.meforum.org/5446/what-if-iran-turns-down-jcpoa

Shira Rubin, “The New Face of Jewish Terror,” Foreign Policy Magazine, August 20, 2015, http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/20/the-new-face-of-jewish-terror-hilltop-settlers-price-tag-attacks-israel/

Viva Sarah Press, “Flutist Hadar Noiberg Jazzes up New York,” Israel21c, August 20, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/flutist-hadar-noiberg-jazzes-up-new-york/

Robert Satloff, “There is a Path to a Better Deal with Iran,” The Atlantic, August 13, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/there-is-a-path-to-a-better-deal-with-iran

Uri Savir, “Dangers of International Fatigue on Israel-Palestine Issue,” Al-Monitor, August 30, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/israel-two-state-solution-palestine-international-community.html

Jonathan Schanzer, The Iran Nuclear Deal Means War Between Israel and Hezbollah,”
Huffington Post, August 21, 2015, http://schanzer.pundicity.com/17749/the-iran-nuclear-deal-means-war-between-israel

Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, “The Nuclear Deal: No Pause in Iran’s Vow to Destroy Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 16, 2015, http://jcpa.org/article/nuclear-deal-irans-vow-destroy-israel/

Gunter Seufert, “On the Situation of the Kurdish Question,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, August 2015, http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C38_srt.pdf

Gabi Siboni, “’The IDF Strategy:’ A Focused Action Approach,” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 27, 2015,  http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10446

Michael Singh, “Implications of the JCPOA for US Policy in the Middle East,” Testimony submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, August 5, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/testimony/SinghTestimony20150805-SenateForeignRelations-v3.pdf

Lee Smith, “With the Iran Deal Under Review, the Obama Administration Tries to Bait Three Jewish Senators,” The Tablet, August 3, 2015, http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/192578/with-iran-deal-under-review-the-obama-administration-tries-to-bait-three-jewish-senators

Ephraim Sneh, “Hoping to Counter Iran, Former Israeli Defense Official Calls on Riyadh to Add ‘Security Annex’ to Arab Peace Initiative,” Al-Monitor, August 25, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/arab-peace-initiative-security-annex-saudi-arabia.html

Jonathan Spyer, “The Tehran Formula,” Rubin Center, August 3, 2015, http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/08/the-teheran-formula/

Israel21c Staff, “Arab-Israeli Medic Delivers Baby of Terror Victims,” Israel21c, August 12, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/arab-israeli-medic-delivers-baby-of-terror-victims/

Kenneth W. Stein, “Stopping an Ominous Iran,” The Hill-Congress Blog, August 31, 2015, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/252045-stopping-an-ominous-iran

Khaled Yacoub Oweis, “Backbone of the Syrian Revolt, Inclusion of Rural Sunnis Key for International Efforts to End Conflict,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, August 2015, http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C39_ows.pdf

Amos Yadlin, “Israel and the United States: Time for a Parallel Agreement,” August 30, 2015, The Institute for National Security Studies, August 30, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10477

Naomi Zeveloff, “Revisiting the Gaza Withdrawal, 10 Years Later,” Forward, August 3, 2015, http://forward.com/news/israel/318228/gaza-withdrawal-10-years-later/

Tamara Zieve, “Arabs Who Love Israel? This Film Producer Wants the World to Hear Their Stories,” Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Arabs-who-love-Israel-They-exist-and-this-film-producer-wants-the-world-to-hear-their-stories-414978

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