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Since Hamas brutally murdered 1,200 Israelis and others on Oct. 7 and kidnapped more than 240, Hezbollah and Israel have battled along the Lebanese border, trading missiles and airstrikes but so far avoiding all-out war. The threat, however, has forced Israelis to evacuate from the northern border, and the risk of fighting on the scale of the 2006 war seems to be rising. Assessing the danger and the impact on Israelis in the north during CIE’s 22nd weekly webinar March 13 are retired IDF Maj. Gen. Yaacov Ayish of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America and Anat Shapira of the Institute for National Security Studies. Moderating the discussion is Dr. Ken Stein, CIE’s president and an Emory University emeritus professor of Middle East history, political science and Israel studies.

Compiled by Aidan New Hezbollah emerged in Lebanon in the 1980s, rooted in the historical marginalization of the country’s Shiite community. Today, Hezbollah is a major player in Lebanese social and political life, wielding significant influence over both the government and the military landscape. Its continued presence, armed and active south of the Litani River […]

Iran exerts an immense amount of influence over its most successful proxy creation, Hezbollah. This dominance is reflected in Hezbollah’s reliance on Iranian approval for strategic decisions and strong ideological similarities.

Compiled by Aidan New Iran has financed, armed, trained, and, in some cases, directed terrorist and militant groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis around the Middle East to incorporate them into its ultimate goal of destroying the State of Israel. That close relationship is why Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who shared the goal […]

Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Scott Abramson, “The Iranian Regime Is Not Its People,” Jewish News Syndicate, August 19, 2024, https://www.jns.org/the-iranian-regime-is-not-its-people Brian C. Anderson, “A Crisis on Campus,” City Journal, August 17, 2024, https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-crisis-on-campus Alan Baker, “Israel Under Fire — Introduction,” Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs, August 20, 2024, https://jcpa.org/article/introduction Tal Beeri, “Hezbollah — […]

Jews bound themselves to commitments to G-d, ethics and rules to one another, learning self-governing lessons while a minority under others domination. Then, in the first half of the 20th century evolving a concrete reality, building institutions through pragmatism and ingenuity, lobbying for their cause, receiving willing Arab collaboration in state building, slowly constructing a demographic and physical nucleus for a state, linking people to the land to unfold sovereignty in 1948.

Die Erklärung war eine Zusammenfassung der jüdischen Geschichte bis 1948 und eine
Erklärung der Absichten Israels gegenüber seinen Bewohnern, Nachbarn und der internationalen Gemeinschaft.

A Declaração era uma sinopse da história do povo judeu até 1948 e também uma afirmação das intenções de Israel para com seus habitantes, vizinhos e a comunidade internacional.

Von 1898 bis 1947 entwickelte sich der Zionismus von einer Idee hin zur konkreten Realität: der tatsächlichen Gründung des jüdischen Staates Israel. Über Jahrhunderte hinweg hatten die Juden beharrlich ihre Gemeinschaftsidentität bewahrt. Als der Staat Israel am 14. Mai 1948 erklärt wurde, war die jüdische Bevölkerung von 30.000 im Jahr 1900 auf über 650.000 angewachsen. Das [jüdische] Volk kann nur durch seine eigene Kraft gerettet werden… Wenn das Volk nicht die Kraft hat, sich selbst zu erlösen, wird es keine Rettung durch eine fremde Initiative geben.“ In einem halben Jahrhundert hatten die Juden erfolgreich das Schicksal in ihre eigenen Hände genommen.

Von den biblischen Bündnissen aus verpflichteten sich die Juden zum Glauben an einen einzigen Gott, eine unzerbrechliche Bindung zum Land Israel.
Von Anfang an war die jüdische Identität eng mit den gegenseitigen Verpflichtungen zwischen Gott und dem Volk verbunden.

Depression is hard to describe, but easily identified. Not since the dark days of the post-Yom Kippur War era, when life seemed to be fifty shades of impenetrable black, do I remember such despondency and despair in Israel. “How are you?” has become a loaded question, requiring a contorted differentiation between one’s personal state and […]

Hezbollah and Hamas have significant ideological and religious differences, but they are united in the goal of destroying Israel and in their alliance with Iran. Before Hamas’ attacks on October 7th, the two terrorist organizations had significant coordination, although Hamas did not warn Hezbollah what it planned for that day.

Written two months before the US voted at the United Nations in favor of Palestine’s partition into Arab and Jewish states, Henderson voices profound dislike for Zionism and a Jewish state. He advocates for cultivating positive relations with Muslim and Arab states. He is one of many at the State Department at the time that saw Zionism as contrary to American national interest.

El Tratado Egipto-Israelí fue el cuarto acuerdo árabe-israelí firmado desde el final de la Guerra de Octubre de 1973 hasta marzo de 1979, siendo el siguiente acuerdo firmado solo en los Acuerdos de Oslo de 1993.

Prime Minister-elect Begin rebukes President Carter’s assertion that Israel will need to withdraw from almost all the lands Israel secured in the June 1967 war, especially Jerusalem and the West Bank. Begin is adamant opposed to dealing with the PLO. Begin refuses to relinquish Israeli decision-making to US preferences or dictates. These fundamental policy disagreements will remain unresolved between Begin and Carter for the duration of Carter’s presidency, and years after.

Siegel resigned over two matters: the administration’s policy of selling advanced fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, which he believed a threat to Israel’s national security, and his sharp disagreement with the Carter White House for not allowing alternative views on policy matters to find their way to the President’s desk. Siegel’s detailed interview about the administration’s anti-Israeli viewpoints are explained here.

Signed sixteen months after Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem, it calls for establishment of diplomatic relations, staged Israeli withdrawal from Sinai, and American security arrangements to support the bilateral treaty.

Hamas absolutely opposes Israel’s right to exist, with its leadership repeatedly declaring that all of Palestine belongs to Moslems.

Since the June 1967 war, Anti-Israeli sentiment on US campuses has grown to extraordinary proportions merging with previously evolved anti-Zionism into sporadic mention to regular embrace.

Five Arab political parties sent a memorandum of protest to the British asking for a halt to Jewish immigration, a stoppage in Arab land sales to Jews,and a measure of self-determination. The British did not change their policies in these three areas. In 1939, they did severely limit Jewish land purchases and severely curtailed Jewish immigration.

Die Verwendung von Originalquellen und der Einsatz von Perspektiven sind entscheidend für eine substanziierte Israelbildung. Das Fehlen von beidem behindert und verfälscht das Lernen über Israel. Wenn Dokumente und Texte oder

Ben-Gurion recognized that Arab opposition to Zionism is a national feeling and that Palestinian Arab leadership had done little to help the majority impoverished peasant population.

Samuel would serve as Britain’s first and only Jewish High Commissioner (1920-1925) in Palestine; he noted reasons for Arab political in-fighting, origins of Arab dislike of Zionism, how land sales to Jews generated Arab jealousies, Jewish educational focus, and Palestine as a land area capable of supporting 4 million people.

Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Faisal Abbas, “Israelis Need to Listen to Ron Lauder,” Arab News, July 31, 2024, https://www.arabnews.com/node/2560231 Scott Abramson, “How Israelis Probe Their Failings,” Mosaic Magazine, July 1, 2024, https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2024/07/how-israelis-probe-their-failings/ Majd Abuamer, “Detection, Neutralization, and Destruction: The Limits of Israel’s Strategy against Gaza’s Tunnels,” Arab Center for […]

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Asher Sussser, “The Rise of Hamas in Palestine and the Crisis of Secularism in the Arab World,” Brandeis, 2010 (79pp). (with permission) Read full article

Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh says, “we shall never recognize the “usurper Zionism government”…continue Jihadist movement until liberation of Jerusalem.”

On October 8, 2023, Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets at northern Israel that escalated tensions in the region and prompted a substantial increase in the IDF presence along the border with Lebanon. It was not the first instance of such hostilities, however, as both sides have a long history of conflict.