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Israel: Alternative Regional Options in a Changing Middle East
Report June 2013 Israel: alternative regional options in a changing Middle East By Yossi Alpher1 Executive summary Today Israel confronts broad regional security challenges reminiscent of those it faced in the early decades of its existence. Then it responded to the threat posed by the hostile Arab states that surrounded it by developing the “periphery doctrine”. It formed strategic ties with Iran, Turkey and other non-Arab, non- Muslim or geographically distant Arab states and minorities that shared its concerns. The original periphery doctrine ground to a halt between 1973 and 1983 and was in many ways replaced by the Arab-Israel peace process, both bilateral and multilateral. Eventually, the failure to register significant progress toward a solution of the Palestinian issue blunted this momentum. Currently Israel sees itself increasingly ringed by hostile Islamists in Egypt, Gaza, southern Lebanon and probably Syria, as well as non-Arab Turkey and Iran. Once again it confronts the spectre of regional isolation. But it is far better equipped than in the past to deal with a hostile ring of neighbours. Its policy options include not only a “new periphery” (Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Greece and Ethiopia, among others), but also the projection of both soft (particularly economic) and hard power, a search for accommodation with political Islam beginning with Hamas in Gaza, and a partial or comprehensive two-state solution agreement with the West Bank-based PLO. Introduction hostile Arab states motivated by Arab nationalism and led Today Israel confronts broad regional security challenges by Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser. These neighbouring that in some ways are reminiscent of those it faced in the countries were smarting from a string of military defeats at early decades of its existence. -
Camp David's Shadow
Camp David’s Shadow: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinian Question, 1977-1993 Seth Anziska Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2015 © 2015 Seth Anziska All rights reserved ABSTRACT Camp David’s Shadow: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinian Question, 1977-1993 Seth Anziska This dissertation examines the emergence of the 1978 Camp David Accords and the consequences for Israel, the Palestinians, and the wider Middle East. Utilizing archival sources and oral history interviews from across Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Camp David’s Shadow recasts the early history of the peace process. It explains how a comprehensive settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict with provisions for a resolution of the Palestinian question gave way to the facilitation of bilateral peace between Egypt and Israel. As recently declassified sources reveal, the completion of the Camp David Accords—via intensive American efforts— actually enabled Israeli expansion across the Green Line, undermining the possibility of Palestinian sovereignty in the occupied territories. By examining how both the concept and diplomatic practice of autonomy were utilized to address the Palestinian question, and the implications of the subsequent Israeli and U.S. military intervention in Lebanon, the dissertation explains how and why the Camp David process and its aftermath adversely shaped the prospects of a negotiated settlement between Israelis and Palestinians in the 1990s. In linking the developments of the late 1970s and 1980s with the Madrid Conference and Oslo Accords in the decade that followed, the dissertation charts the role played by American, Middle Eastern, international, and domestic actors in curtailing the possibility of Palestinian self-determination. -
Solving 9-11
Solving 9-11 An Independent Investigation of the Crime that Changed the World By Christopher Bollyn Table of Contents (As of May 30, 2009) Preface by Author Forward by Dr. Steven E. Jones (preferably) Chapters 1. 9-11 Through the Eyes of an American Skeptic (5150) As a journalist and skeptic of the unproven official version, I have examined the facts and evidence and concluded that the U.S. government and controlled media have engaged in a conspiracy to deceive the world about what really happened on 9-11. 2. The Planes of 9-11 (6340) A foreign and privately-owned aircraft leasing company is connected to the airport security and passenger screening company at the center of the terror attacks of 9-11. 3. America the Target: 9-11 and the History of False Flag Terrorism (9985) An examination of key events in the history of false-flag terror attacks and the people behind them. 4. The Terror Drills That Became Real: 9-11, the London Bombings & the Sinking of Estonia (6077) The past two decades have been marked by a number of terror events which occurred during security exercises in which the scenario was identical to the real-life terror attack. 5. How Did Spy Software Get Onto FAA Computers? (2841) 9-11 was also a sophisticated computer crime, carried out through long-term foreign infiltration of the most sensitive U.S. military and government computer networks. 6. Who Controls Our Elections? (2860) The stealing of American elections is primarily a computer crime, as were the terror attacks of 9-11. -
Why Do They Hate Us?--Geography of the Palestine-Israel Conflict And
“Why Do They Hate Us/U.S.?” and “Why Do We Hate Them?” Is It Because Of “Their” Islam Or Because Of “Our” Support For Israel? Geography of the Palestine-Israel Conflict Presentation to the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 2008, and Bloomington, IN, November 2008 Mohamed Elyassini, PhD, Associate Professor of Geography, Indiana State University 1. “The bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad… I and my administration have made the security of Israel a priority. It’s why we’ve increased cooperation between our militaries to unprecedented levels. It’s why we’re making our most advanced technologies available to our Israeli allies. It’s why, despite tough fiscal times, we’ve increased foreign military financing to record levels. And that includes additional support –- beyond regular military aid -– for the Iron Dome anti-rocket system… So make no mistake, we will maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge… You also see our commitment to our shared security in our determination to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Here in the United States, we’ve imposed the toughest sanctions ever on the Iranian regime… You also see our commitment to Israel’s security in our steadfast opposition to any attempt to de-legitimize the State of Israel. As I said at the United Nations last year, ‘Israel’s existence must not be a subject for debate,’ and ‘efforts to chip away at Israel’s legitimacy will only be met by the unshakeable opposition of the United States.’ So when the Durban Review Conference advanced anti-Israel sentiment, we withdrew. -
The a to Z of Middle Eastern Intelligence by Ephraim Kahana and Muhammad Suwaed, 2009
OTHER A TO Z GUIDES FROM THE SCARECROW PRESS, INC. 1. The A to Z of Buddhism by Charles S. Prebish, 2001. 2. The A to Z of Catholicism by William J. Collinge, 2001. 3. The A to Z of Hinduism by Bruce M. Sullivan, 2001. 4. The A to Z of Islam by Ludwig W. Adamec, 2002. 5. The A to Z of Slavery & Abolition by Martin A. Klein, 2002. 6. Terrorism: Assassins to Zealots by Sean Kendall Anderson and Stephen Sloan, 2003. 7. The A to Z of the Korean War by Paul M. Edwards, 2005. 8. The A to Z of the Cold War by Joseph Smith and Simon Davis, 2005. 9. The A to Z of the Vietnam War by Edwin E. Moise, 2005. 10. The A to Z of Science Fiction Literature by Brian Stableford, 2005. 11. The A to Z of the Holocaust by Jack R. Fischel, 2005. 12. The A to Z of Washington, D.C. by Robert Benedetto, Jane Dono- van, and Kathleen DuVall, 2005. 13. The A to Z of Taoism by Julian F. Pas, 2006. 14. The A to Z of the Renaissance by Charles G. Nauert, 2006. 15. The A to Z of Shinto by Stuart D. B. Picken, 2006. 16. The A to Z of Byzantium by John H. Rosser, 2006. 17. The A to Z of the Civil War by Terry L. Jones, 2006. 18. The A to Z of the Friends (Quakers) by Margery Post Abbott, Mary Ellen Chijioke, Pink Dandelion, and John William Oliver Jr., 2006 19. -
PART 2: Where We Have Been Going and What’S Next
Where we came from, what we have been doing, where we are going and what’s next. PART 2: Where We Have Been Going and What’s Next I now pick up the story of Palestine in the context of Middle Eastern affairs to continue my effort to create a matrix to position the events and trends. I find that these events and trends fall conveniently, if with some overlaps, into four phases. In the first phase, roughly from 1948 to 1967, the states, Israel, Egypt and Transjordan are the actors and the Palestinians, scattered, leaderless and immobile, are the objects; in the second phase, roughly from 1968 to about 2004, the Palestinians under the leadership of Yasir (also spelled Yasser) Arafat attempt to create a “state-in-exile” under the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), clashing not only with Israel but also with what had become Jordan (by the amalgamation of the West Bank), Lebanon and in its Tunisian exile. but Egypt continues to play the leading Arab role; in the third phase, roughly from the death of Arafat in 2004 and under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas (the PLO moved back to the West Bank, attempted to make peace with Israel; in the fourth phase, a virtual war engulfs the resurgent Islamic movement Hamas and Israel. I warn the reader that I will not offer here a detailed history.1 I will leave out much in order to keep my focus on the main elements with the purpose of providing a matrix or framework into which to fit the unfolding story. -
Herzliya Conference February 2-4, 2009 Policy, Statecraft and Leadership for Trying Times
on the Balance of Israel’s National Security Conference Conclusions The Ninth Herzliya Conference February 2-4, 2009 Policy, Statecraft and Leadership for Trying Times Institute for Policy and Strategy Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya Table Of Contents 1 About the Herzliya Conference 9 Conference Conclusions 10 Preface 12 Strategic Trends for Israel 17 The World Order: A Multiple-Crisis Global Arena 26 The Middle East: Regional Issues and Key Players 31 Israel’s Global and Regional Security and Political Challenges 39 Israel and Jewish Peoplehood: Reinforcing the National Resilience 41 Israel in the Global Era: Challenges at Home 49 Conference Program 54 About IDC & IPS 57 Conference Participants 66 Acknowledgments About the Herzliya Conference 1 HERZLIYA | 2009 Israel’s premier global policy gathering, the Herzliya Conference exclusively draws together international and Israeli participants from the highest levels of government, business and academia to address the most pressing national, regional and global issues. The Conference offers leaders timely and authoritative assessments and policy recommendations needed to guide their organizations through the challenging geopolitical, economic and social developments. Harnessing path-breaking methodologies, the Conference’s task force reports and the commissioned studies present an accurate, coherent, continuous and comprehensive picture of the region and the world. Strategic and political processes and events emanating from an ever-turbulent Middle East increasingly impact the global arena. Shaping the regional and international policy debates and directly influencing decision-making, the deliberations at Herzliya cover a broad span of issues, ranging from nuclear proliferation and the Middle East peace process to world finance, energy security and global warming. -
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Mossad [The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service].Pdf
MOSSAD THE GREATEST MISSIONS OF THE ISRAELI SECRET SERVICE MICHAEL BAR-ZOHAR AND NISSIM MISHAL Dedications For heroes unsung For battles untold For books unwritten For secrets unspoken And for a dream of peace never abandoned, never forgotten —Michael Bar-Zohar To Amy Korman For her advice, her inspiration, and her being my pillar of support —Nissim Mishal Contents Dedications Introduction - Alone, in the Lion’s Den Chapter One - King of Shadows Chapter Two - Funerals in Tehran Chapter Three - A Hanging in Baghdad Chapter Four - A Soviet Mole and a Body at Sea Chapter Five - “Oh, That? It’s Khrushchev’s Speech . .” Chapter Six - “Bring Eichmann Dead or Alive!” Chapter Seven - Where Is Yossele? Chapter Eight - A Nazi Hero at the Service of the Mossad Chapter Nine - Our Man in Damascus Chapter Ten - “I Want a MiG-21!” Chapter Eleven - Those Who’ll Never Forget Chapter Twelve - The Quest for the Red Prince Chapter Thirteen - The Syrian Virgins Chapter Fourteen - “Today We’ll Be at War!” Chapter Fifteen - A Honey Trap for the Atom Spy Photo Section Chapter Sixteen - Saddam’s Supergun Chapter Seventeen - Fiasco in Amman Chapter Eighteen - From North Korea with Love Chapter Nineteen - Love and Death in the Afternoon Chapter Twenty - The Cameras Were Rolling Chapter Twenty-one - From the Land of the Queen of Sheba Epilogue - War with Iran? Acknowledgments Bibliography and Sources Index About the Authors Copyright About the Publisher Introduction Alone, in the Lion’s Den On November 12, 2011, a tremendous explosion destroyed a secret missile base close to Tehran, killing seventeen Revolutionary Guards and reducing dozens of missiles to a heap of charred iron. -
Executive Summary 2006
Table of Contents Forward 1 Main Points 2 Strategic and Political Challenges for Israel 12 Global Trends and their Implications 38 Challenges in Economy, Society and Government 41 The Jewish People – Present and Future 56 Appendices: Conference Program 61 The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya 72 The Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and 72 Strategy The Institute for Policy and Strategy 73 Conference Participants 74 Acknowledgements 97 Foreword The Sixth Herzliya Conference on the Balance of Israel’s National Security was held on January 21-24, 2006. The Conference’s deliberations reflected the major issues and dilemmas on Israel’s national agenda in the fields of foreign policy, defense, economics, social policy, governance and Jewish peoplehood. The Conference took place during the period prior to the general elections. The traditional Herzliya Address was delivered by Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and he, like the other prime ministerial candidates, highlighted the principles that would govern his policy. The Conference also took place on the eve of the Palestinian elections that won Hamas the majority needed to establish a Hamas government. This development, along with others, led to the assessment that arose from the sessions on national security and foreign policy that 2006 would be a year of significant developments and critical decisions regarding the strategic threats facing Israel – the strengthening of Hamas and the looming confrontation with Iran over its nuclearization. Much of the rest of the Conference was devoted to the key domestic issues in Israel, particularly the maintenance of economic growth, welfare policy and the rule of law in the present political system. -
Conference Report
Pragmatism and Rhetoric in Libya's Policy Toward Israel by Jacob Abadi INTRODUCTION Libya belongs to a category of Arab states that have little to lose by encouraging hostility toward Israel. Its distance from the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict provides it with a large measure of security against possible Israeli reprisals. The hostility toward Israel, which had long been the main feature of Libya's foreign policy under Colonel Mu'amar al-Qaddafi, was lacking in the early years when King Idris was in power. Libya's connections to the West during the 1950s and 1960s had a moderating effect on its leadership. Although the Libyan monarchy had demonstrated sympathy to the plight of the Palestinian refugees, its anti-Israeli rhetoric remained restrained and it was not until King Idris was overthrown in September 1969 by a group of officers led by Qaddafi that Libya became a sworn enemy of the Jewish State. Seeking to dominate the Arab world, Qaddafi turned into an ardent supporter of the Palestinian people and an implacable enemy of the state of Israel. Qaddafi's vision of an Arab-dominated Middle East, free from exploitive imperialism and Western influence, left no room for a Jewish state, which according to Qaddafi was a mere tool in the hands of the Western powers. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that Libya's policy toward Israel was to a large extent determined by Qaddafi's rivalry with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and to a lesser extent with Sadat's successor, Hosni Mubarak, for the domination of the Arab world. -
Security Cooperation and Challenges
Transcript Security Cooperation and Challenges Dr Schmuel Bar Director of Studies, The Institute for Policy and Strategy, Israel Dr Uzi Arad Former Chairman, Israeli National Security Council Sir Richard Dearlove The Master, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge 30 March 2011 The views expressed in this document are the sole responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of Chatham House, its staff, associates or Council. Chatham House is independent and owes no allegiance to any government or to any political body. It does not take institutional positions on policy issues. This document is issued on the understanding that if any extract is used, the author(s)/ speaker(s) and Chatham House should be credited, preferably with the date of the publication or details of the event. Where this document refers to or reports statements made by speakers at an event every effort has been made to provide a fair representation of their views and opinions, but the ultimate responsibility for accuracy lies with this document’s author(s). The published text of speeches and presentations may differ from delivery. Transcript: Security Cooperation and Challenges Dr Uzi Arad: Good afternoon, I’ve been invited to come and reflect on the evolution of security cooperation and challenges between Israel and Britain in the past 60 years. But when reflecting on this it occurs to one, that when it comes to defence and security matters, one should look before those 60 years, actually to look at the past 90 years. That is to look at the 30 years that preceded the creation of the state of Israel, during the time of the mandate and the intervening years between the First World War and the Second World War there was a great deal of military and security cooperation and that forged much of what was to follow. -
Pragmatism and Rhetoric in Libya's Policy Toward Israel Jacob Abadi
Document generated on 09/27/2021 5:49 a.m. Journal of Conflict Studies Pragmatism and Rhetoric in Libya's Policy Toward Israel Jacob Abadi Volume 20, Number 2, Fall 2000 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/jcs20_2art05 See table of contents Publisher(s) The University of New Brunswick ISSN 1198-8614 (print) 1715-5673 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Abadi, J. (2000). Pragmatism and Rhetoric in Libya's Policy Toward Israel. Journal of Conflict Studies, 20(2), 80–102. All rights reserved © Centre for Conflict Studies, UNB, 2000 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ Pragmatism and Rhetoric in Libya's Policy Toward Israel by Jacob Abadi INTRODUCTION Libya belongs to a category of Arab states that have little to lose by encouraging hostility toward Israel. Its distance from the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict provides it with a large measure of security against possible Israeli reprisals. The hostility toward Israel, which had long been the main feature of Libya's foreign policy under Colonel Mu'amar al-Qaddafi, was lacking in the early years when King Idris was in power. Libya's connections to the West during the 1950s and 1960s had a moderating effect on its leadership.