Posts Tagged: Alon ben-meir
Ariel Sharon’s Legacy: A Bold, Defiant Leader
People around the world have passed judgment about the life of Israel's most controversial leader, which runs the gamit from utter and deep admiration for...
Looking at 2013 Across the Middle East
As the year 2013 comes to a close, we take with us to 2014 the shame of the horrifying tragedy in Syria, the deep trepidations...
Iran Will Get a Nuclear Weapon, Unless…
In my last article, I surveyed as impartially as I could the position of the various countries that might be affected by the interim deal...
Will Iran Deal Work? Only Time Will Tell
In the wake of the interim nuclear deal with Iran, many questions have been raised by people from different backgrounds, government officials, and the media...
The Nuclear Deal: Netanyahu vs. Obama
The deal that was struck in Geneva between Iran and the P5+ 1 (the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China, and Germany) represents an important first...
The Settlements: Israel’s Albatross”Ž
The stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations that Secretary of State John Kerry worked relentlessly to reinvigorate have once again been stonewalled. The continuing building and expanding...
How Assad Has Stayed in Power: Cunning and U.S. Fumbling
When Basil Assad, oldest son and heir apparent to the late President Hafez Assad, was killed in a car accident in 1994, the father turned...
Keeping Israel a Jewish State
As the Israelis and Palestinians negotiate, Prime Minister Netanyahu has made recognition of the Jewish right to a homeland in Israel "the most important key...
Mastering The Nuclear Chess Game
Iran may have not invented chess, but it has nevertheless demonstrated unsurpassed skills in playing the nuclear chess game against the P5+1 (US,...
How Syria’s Ruling Apparatus Became Its Albatross
It was strongly suggested by close top officials in the Syrian government that I spoke with more than a decade ago that when Syria's...
The Arab Spring: Could Turn Into a Long and Cruel Winter
Due to a host of common denominators in the Arab world including the lack of traditional liberalism, the tribes' power, the elites' control of business,...
