Sovereign Israeli RightsCIE+
Placing Jewish destiny into Jewish hands was why Zionism emerged at the end of the 19th century. Acquiring political power to promote Jewish security is how a Jewish state was created.
The June 1967 War: Actions with Unfinished ConsequencesCIE+
Coming up, fifty years after the June 1967 War. How many times have I taught the causes and effects, or written about the War? Hundreds of times in forty years.
President Trump and International RelationsCIE+
America’s new president has the potential to thoroughly shake up international relations. Volker Perthes lays out five theses that researchers and policymakers will need to address.
Forty-Three years since the October 1973 Arab-Israeli WarCIE+
The October 1973 War was 43 years ago this month. What follows is the US Intelligence Estimate when the war started on October 6
Under certain conditions, Israelis support the idea of a referendum to determine the future of the territoriesCIE+
Israelis are divided on the impact and future of the territories gained in the June 1967 war, according to the June 2016 Israel Democracy Institute Peace Index.
James F. Jeffrey and Michael Eisenstadt: U.S. Military Engagement in the Broader Middle EastCIE+
Jeffrey and Eisenstadt in their analyses, US Military Engagement in the Broader Middle East, focus on the inheritance of the Obama administration’s general military disengagement from the region and the downward spiral of stability there.
Paul Rivlin: The Dominoes Fall: The War in Syria, Europe and TurkeyCIE+
The war in Syria has taken a massive humanitarian toll along with economic and social consequences that will reverberate throughout the region for decades to come.
Ehud Yaari: Hamas and the Islamic State: Growing Cooperation in the SinaiCIE+
Hamas has long sought to stymie Egyptian control over the peninsula and keep its weapons smuggling routes open, but its latest opportunistic gamble on local jihadists carries wider dangers that should be nipped in the bud by sponsors Turkey and Qatar.
Ken Stein: Stopping an Ominous IranCIE+
In the interest of securing any deal rather than the right deal – politics over principle – the president and the diplomats he sent to negotiate seem to have forgotten or perhaps never learned why Iran must not get a nuclear weapon.
George Perkovich, Mark Hibbs, James M Action, and Toby Dalton: Parsing the Iran DealCIE+
On July 14, 2015, Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) concluded a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) concerning the future of Iran’s nuclear program.
Robert Satloff: If the Iran Deal Fails…CIE+
Congressional rejection of the nuclear deal wouldn’t be pretty, but a messy domestic political battle is a far cry from the president’s warnings of potential war with Iran.
Washington Institute: Public Statement on US Policy Toward the Iran Nuclear NegotiationsCIE+
The agreement will not prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapons capability. It will not require the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear enrichment infrastructure. It will however reduce that infrastructure for the next 10 to 15 years.
Dr. Gil Feiler: Economic Implications of Iran Sanctions ReliefCIE+
The lifting of sanctions on Iran will allow Teheran to increase its support for terrorist groups across the region, and bolster Iran’s political and military power.
Yossi Kuperwasser: The Struggle over the Iranian Nuclear ProgrammeCIE+
Yossi Kuperwasser, “The Struggle over the Iranian Nuclear Programme, ” Fathom, Winter/2015
Is Hamas’s Real Goal to Lift the “Siege” on Gaza?CIE+
There is a major, and unfounded, underlying assumption behinds calls for Israel to accept Hamas’s conditions: that Hamas is genuinely motivated by its responsibility for the welfare of Gazans.
Ken Stein: Recollections from the October WarCIE+
Many recollections remain from the Egyptian-Syrian surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973. The war set in motion a diplomatic process that eventually culminated in the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty.
Ken Stein: Morsi Overthrow, Peace Talks and Civil War in SyriaCIE+
Lessons from the overthrow of the Morsi government in Egypt, the restart of Palestinian-Israeli talks, and the civil war in Syria remind us how difficult it is to judge whether American engagement is good or bad in the long run.
U.S., Israel Agreed in 2009 to Stop Flow of Arms to HamasCIE+
Should the United States become centrally or peripherally involved in monitoring a cease-fire and the movement of a cease-fire into a new status-quo for Gaza, the contents of this MOU could constitute a workable outline for helping enforce calm in Gaza and on its borders.
The Quest for Arab-Israeli PeaceCIE+
“The Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace: Israel’s Disengagement from the Gaza Strip: Precedents, Motivations and Outcomes” Zionism Fulfilled.- Israel’s preemptive physical disengagement from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 was the result of a national consensus;…
Or Commission, 2003: Context and Causes of Communal Clashes in October 2000CIE+
The findings of the Or Commission on the October 2000 clashes between Arab and Jewish Israelis provide context to the response of Arab citizens to the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
Ken Stein: The Kilometer 101 Talks — Between the October War and the 1973 Middle East Peace ConferenceCIE+
By Kenneth W. Stein “The Link Between War and Diplomacy: The Kilometer 101 Talks After the October 1973 War,” in Richard B. Parker (ed.), The October War: A Retrospective, University Press of Florida, 2001, pp….
Meir Litvak, “The Islamization of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Case of Hamas,” 1998CIE+
The rise of Hamas marks a shift in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a struggle between national movements or states to a battle between religions, making a resolution all the more difficult to achieve.
Stein and Lewis: “Lessons From Fifty Years of Arab-Israeli Negotiating Experiences”CIE+
October 1991 Kenneth W. Stein and Samuel W. Lewis, Making Peace Among Arabs and Israelis: Lessons From Fifty Years of Negotiating Experience, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, October 1991, second printing 1992, 69 pages.
Ken Stein, “One Hundred Years of Social Change: The Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem”CIE+
Kenneth W. Stein, “One Hundred Years of Social Change: The Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem,” in Laurence Silberstein (ed.), New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State, New York University Press,…
