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Latest Updates
Today's Israeli-Palestinian Summit in Washington
As readers are doubtless aware, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu is meeting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today in Washington in a summit designed to formally re-launch direct Israeli Palestinian peace talks. This Update offers backgrou...
Published: 02/09/2010 read more
The Prospects of the Sept. 2 Israeli-Palestinian Summit
As readers will be aware, following a statement by the Quartet (the US, UN, EU and Russia), which you can read here, the Israelis and Palestinian leaders have agreed to a Sept. 2 Summit in Washington to launch much-delayed direct talks. This Update ...
Published: 26/08/2010 read more
Are Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Finally Imminent?
The US government is reportedly expecting that direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks may finally be announced - after months of efforts - as soon as Monday. This Update deals with why it has taken so long to get to this point and what to expect if ...
Published: 20/08/2010 read more
"The Point of No Return" on Iran?/Bushehr
Today's Update leads with a lengthy and controversial article that is generating much comment in the US. Top journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic has written an extended feature piece dealing with the possibility that Israel may launch an air...
Published: 18/08/2010 read more
Hezbollah and last week's Lebanon border incident
This Update contains some selections from the large quantity of analysis that has been written about the situation in Lebanon in the wake of the fatal border clash between Israeli and Lebanese army forces last week. In particular, there is speculati...
Published: 13/08/2010 read more
Hamas' stances/Israel, the Arab world and Iran
This Update features some new material on Hamas, its goals and its efforts to control Gaza. And it also has an important and detailed look at the increasingly complex relationship between Israel and the Arab states in the face of the Iranian hegemon...
Published: 12/08/2010 read more
The Costs of Demonising Israel
Today's Update focuses on the movement to demonise and boycott Israel, and its malevolent effects. It comes in the wake of a new must-see short video on the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" movement against Israel, which reveals that this movemen...
Published: 06/08/2010 read more
Lebanon Border Incident/ The Arab League and Direct Israeli-Palestinian talks
As readers are probably aware, there was a significant clash between Israeli forces and the Lebanese Army yesterday, which left a total of five people dead. This Update deals with both this incident, as well as the prospects for renewed direct Israe...
Published: 04/08/2010 read more
"Wikileaks" and Afghanistan
Much is being written about the exposure of 92,000 documents related to the Afghanistan conflict, released by the dissident activist organisation Wikileaks. This Update looks at the details and implications of these released documents....
Published: 30/07/2010 read more
Lebanon, Hezbollah and UNIFIL
Following the revelation earlier this month by Israel security forces of specific details about Hezbollah military infrastructure in Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah has initiated some confrontations between its supporters and the UN's UNIFIL peacekeeper...
Published: 23/07/2010 read more
Sanctions, Sabotage, Inspections: Tools for Stopping Iranian Nuke
Today's Update looks at the efficacy of various diplomatic and intelligence tools for attempting to stop the Iranian nuclear program. First up are Ephraim Asculai and Emily Landau, top proliferation experts from Tel Aviv University, who discuss the ...
Published: 20/07/2010 read more
US Policy and the Peace Process / Talking about Islam and Terrorism
This Update features some new analysis of the likely future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in the wake of the Obama/Netanyahu summit last week. First up is Washington Institute analyst and former US National Security Council Middle East ex...
Published: 16/07/2010 read more
Flotilla Military Probe Outcome/ Gaza revisited
This Update features a look at the details that have been released from Israel's military investigation into the Gaza flotilla incident on May 30 (obviously, the major state inquiry led by Justice Turkel is still under way, as is an investigation by...
Published: 14/07/2010 read more
Turkey, Iran and UN Sanctions
This Update looks at Turkey's regional policy, including its relations with Iran, especially in the wake of the recent UN and unilateral sanctions passed to deter Iran's illegal nuclear activities. It also contains some new informed advice on how th...
Published: 09/07/2010 read more
Obama and Bibi Meet in Washington
As readers are probably aware, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a much-anticipated meeting at the White House on Tuesday night with US President Barack Obama. This Update looks at the issues discussed and affected by the Summit, and th...
Published: 08/07/2010 read more
Gilad Shalit/ Tony Blair
As readers may be aware, the public campaign for the release of Gilad Shalit, captured by Hamas in a raid across the Gaza border four years ago, has heated up in Israel in recent weeks (though it has been a highly important and emotional issue since...
Published: 30/06/2010 read more
Additional Autonomous Sanctions on Iran
This Update features analysis of the increasing trend of announcements of additional autonomous sanctions directed against Iran's nuclear program in the wake of the passage of the UN Security Council's new sanctions resolution, earlier this month. A...
Published: 25/06/2010 read more
Israel Eases Gaza Blockade/ Talking about Islamist Terrorism
As readers will be aware, the Israeli cabinet announced a major easing of the blockade of Gaza on Sunday, whereby from now on all items not on a list of prohibited and dual-use items will be allowed in. This Update looks at the new rules for the blo...
Published: 22/06/2010 read more
Iran's Green Movement, One Year Later
With this week marking the first anniversary of Iran's fraudulent Presidential election and the mass "Green Movement" protests it sparked, this Update features a sampling of some of the many pieces commenting on the significance of events in Iran ov...
Published: 18/06/2010 read more
Israel's Gaza Flotilla Inquiry
This Update focuses on some of the details of the Israeli decision to appoint an independent public Commission of Inquiry to look into the events of May 31, when 9 Turkish citizens were killed in a clash at sea as Israeli forces attempted to halt si...
Published: 16/06/2010 read more