Posts Tagged: Alon Ben-Meir Israel
The Stakes Have Never Been Higher in Israel’s Elections
As Israel prepares for the parliamentary election in September, its second in five months, most national security experts, politically savvy individuals, and academics suggest that...
The Case Against Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to call for an early election, scheduled to take place on April 9, was nothing short of another political...
When Geopolitical Conditions and Moral Values Converge
The geopolitical developments in the Middle East over the past 15 years have created new political and security dynamics engendered by the violent turmoil and profound...
The Unfinished Six-Day War: An Open Letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu
Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, When you celebrated the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Six-Day War, did you ponder what this triumph has done to the...
Israel’s Political Disunity Enables Settlement Policy
Israel will soon reach the grim milestone of 50 years of occupation of the West Bank. Many Israelis have become complacent, and have succumbed to the...
Trump’s Syria Policy: Strikes Are a Good Start
US President Donald Trump’s unexpected attack on Syria’s Shayrat airbase -- in response to President Bashar Assad’s sarin gas attack on his own citizens --...
Trump Thinks He’s Helping Israel, But He’s Actually Hurting It
President-elect Trump’s appointment of David Friedman (known for his support of settlements) to be the US ambassador to Israel; his appointment of Walid Phares (a...
An Opposing View to Netanyahu’s Proposed Security Wall
The demagoguery of Prime Minster Netanyahu seems to have no limit -- demagoguery in a sense that he says and acts on anything to buttress Israel’s hold...
Netanyahu’s Abuse of Israeli National Security
Israel’s historical experiences, coupled with decades of violent confrontations with Arab states and the Palestinians, have created a major psychological barrier embedded in the psyche...
The Occupation Is at the Root of Current Israeli-Palestinian Violence
It was always a question of when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would violently erupt once again, which only proves that -- contrary to the prevailing views among a...
The Truth About Susiya
Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously stated, "You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts." This rebuke is an...
How the US is Enabling Israel’s Poor Behavior
No one can deny the close, abiding, and unparalleled friendship between the United States and Israel. This tight bond has served both countries well, especially...
Iran, Not ISIS, is the Real Menace
Whereas the international focus today is on how to counter violent extremism, which is behind many of the violent conflicts sweeping the Middle East, the...
Likud’s Big Victory is Israel’s Big Loss
Those of us who regularly observe and try to make sense of the madness sweeping the Middle East often find ourselves, perhaps out of desperation,...
