Posted in Egypt, Harvey Sicherman, Iraq, Israel on Mar 26th, 2009 Comments Off on Egypt and Israel plus thirty
From Harvey Sicherman Churchill once observed that “jaw-jaw” was better than “war-war.” This advice has not been taken very often in the Middle East. Indeed, so rare is it that the very act of “jaw-jaw” has been celebrated as a breakthrough even if not very much—except a process—results from it.
Posted in Egypt, Michele Dunne, Palestinians, Qaeda on Feb 12th, 2009 Comments Off on Egypt and Gaza after the war
From Michele Dunne During the recent Israeli military operation and subsequent efforts to reach a durable ceasefire, Egypt demonstrated that it has two principal interests related to Gaza: first, avoiding taking on responsibility for the one and a half million Palestinians living there; and second, transferring control of Gaza back to the Palestinian Authority led […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Chuck Freilich, Egypt, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Joshua Muravchik, Palestinians on Jan 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Alan Dowty There seems to be a general sense that the Gaza war is over. The shooting has stopped, at least for the most part, at least for now. The pundits, not excluding this one, are lining up to declaim. But in some respects all this is a bit premature; the outcome is not […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Egypt, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Palestinians, Robert O. Freedman, Saudi Arabia, Syria on Jan 2nd, 2009 Comments Off on Israel’s strike on Gaza: a primer
From Robert O. Freedman The Israeli-Hamas ceasefire, signed on June 9, 2008, had long been a porous one. While Hamas, for the most part, until November 2008 did not fire its own rockets at Israel, it permitted other groups, such as the Iranian-supported Islamic Jihad, to do so. These limited rocket attacks, while clear violations […]
Posted in Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Joshua Muravchik, Palestinians, Steven A. Cook on Dec 28th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Steven A. Cook The events in Gaza over this weekend present a number of internal and external challenges for the Egyptian government, again raising questions about Cairo’s capacity to deal effectively with regional crises. Needless to say, the Israeli Air Force’s offensive against Hamas coming soon after Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rebuffed Egyptian […]
Posted in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Martin Kramer, Michael Young, Palestinians, Syria on Nov 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Martin Kramer How did the outcome of 1967 change the way Arabs think about themselves and the world? It was the late Malcolm Kerr, one of America’s leading Arabists at the time, who perfectly summarized the consensus. (Kerr was a UCLA professor, later president of the American University of Beirut, who was killed there […]
Posted in Chuck Freilich, Egypt, Geopolitics, Israel, Jordan, Maps, Palestinians, Philip Carl Salzman on Oct 1st, 2008 5 Comments »
From MESH Admin Israeli Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Giora Eiland served as head of the Israeli National Security Council from 2004 to 2006. He is the author of a new paper, “Rethinking the Two-State Solution” (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy), in which he argues for exploration of two other alternatives: the “Jordanian option” and […]
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