There is still doubt in the minds of serious people about Israel’s attack on the Free Gaza flotilla and the events that lead to the death of 9 of the activists aboard. There can be little surprise of…
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Debunk of comparison between Israel, apartheid South Africa
Published: 21/07/2010Over 200 concerned Israelis, many of them of South African origin, attended a panel on “Combating Israel’s Delegitimization: Debunking the Apartheid Myth,” held Sunday evening at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.
The event was organized by two South…
‘Gaza economy collapsing under siege’
Published: 15/06/2010Most of Gaza’s factories have closed and its water is polluted as a result of Israel’s policy of closing land crossings to all but humanitarian aid, according to a new report being released Monday by the human rights group B’tselem.…
Blundering into harm’s way
Published: 09/06/2010Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wisely cancelled this week’s White House visit to rush home to deal with the international crisis created by his decision to interdict the Gaza-bound Hamas-Turkish flotilla and hand Hamas a major propaganda coup.
Just when he…
Perché la Cina può cambiare le regole del gioco in Medio Oriente
Published: 02/06/201020/05/2010
Original Version: Why China can be a game-changer in the Middle East
Durante un esercizio di simulazione presso il Centro Interdisciplinare di Herzlya (IDC) questa settimana, vertente su una ipotetica crisi iraniana, un gruppo importante di ambasciatori,…
Cosa manca all’accordo turco-iraniano
Published: 26/05/201023/05/2010
Original Version: What the Iran-Turkey deal is missing
L’accordo nucleare annunciato lunedì 17 maggio tra Iran, Brasile e Turchia, ha sicuramente suscitato l’entusiasmo di molti analisti e giornalisti, non solo al Los Angeles Times, che ha definito…
Gerusalemme, città della pace
Published: 07/05/201007/05/2010
Original Version: City of Peace
La vera unità di Gerusalemme avverrà solamente nella sua divisione politica; Gerusalemme, con due stati sovrani, potrebbe essere una città aperta, simbolo della propensione umana alla creatività, all’ingegno e allo spirito di…
Is there a shift in US military thinking?
Published: 24/03/2010While almost a week has passed since Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the United States Military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) testified before the Senate and dropped his bombshell about Israel, concern within the defense establishment has only grown.
While the assumption…
Un popolo libero nella nostra terra
Published: 17/03/201016/03/2010
Original Version: A free people in our land
Non è mai stata questione di tempismo. Le scuse del primo ministro Benjamin Netanyahu al vicepresidente americano Joe Biden hanno permesso al discorso tenuto da quest’ultimo all’Università di Tel…
Analysis: Settlements or us
Published: 17/03/2010Binyamin Netanyahu had thought that the crisis was over.
The prime minister had apologized. He had sworn that the bureaucratic approval for 1,600 new homes at Ramat Shlomo last Tuesday had not been deliberately timed to humiliate visiting Vice President…
Dissecting Dubai
Published: 24/02/2010Some perspective – I: The world has not been impoverished by the death of Mahmoud Mabhouh.
Mabhouh was the self-confessed murderer of two Israeli soldiers, Ilan Sa’adon and Avi Sasportas, in two separate kidnap-slayings which he perpetrated with another Hamas…
Assad siede saldamente sul suo trono
Published: 10/02/201005/02/2010
Original Version: Assad sits comfortably on his throne
Il 2008 è stato l’anno della paura per il presidente siriano Bashar al-Assad.
L’indagine delle Nazioni Unite legata all’assassinio del primo ministro libanese Rafik Hariri indicava il diretto coinvolgimento…
“Un attacco all’Iran non aiuterebbe Israele”
Published: 08/02/201008/02/2010
Original Version: ‘Strike on Iran would not help Israel’
L’Iran sta puntando ad acquisire una capacità nucleare, ma la decisione di costruire un’arma atomica è del tutto differente. E preferibile convivere con un Iran che ha le…
Israele nell’Unione Europea? Solo parole
Published: 06/02/201006/02/2010
Original Version: Israel joining the EU? Words, words, words
Le parole del premier italiano Silvio Berlusconi alla Knesset sono state solo belle parole, ma è inconcepibile che Israele in questo momento entri a far parte dell’Unione Europea…
Analysis: Israel joining the EU? Words, words, words
Published: 04/02/2010When Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stood in the Knesset Wednesday and reiterated what he has said repeatedly during his visit here about his dream for Israel’s joining the EU, everyone in the plenum clapped.
They clapped even though they…
Hamas ready to cancel charter according to senior official
Published: 21/01/2010Hamas has accepted Israel’s right to exist and would be prepared to nullify its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, Aziz Dwaik, Hamas’s most senior representative in the West Bank, said on Wednesday.
Dwaik’s remarks are seen in…
‘Another war with Hamas is inevitable’
Published: 20/01/2010Just over a year after IDF Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, former OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yom Tov Samia on Sunday predicted that another war with Hamas was practically inevitable and would take place in the near future.…
Se Israele offende i turchi
Published: 17/01/201017/01/2010
Original Version: Offending the Turks
L’incidente diplomatico verificatosi lunedì scorso tra Israele e la Turchia segna, malgrado le successive scuse del governo israeliano, un nuovo episodio che testimonia il raffreddamento dei rapporti fra Gerusalemme ed Ankara. Se…
Offending the Turks
Published: 15/01/2010The diplomatic spat between Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and the Turkish ambassador Oguz Celikkol on Monday was the worst thing that could have happened to the already strained Ankara-Jerusalem ties.
Relations between Turkey and Israel have weakened dramatically…
Hamas: l’Egitto ci ha dichiarato guerra
Published: 11/01/201011/01/2010
Original Version: Hamas: Egypt has declared war on us
La tensione fra Hamas e il Cairo ha raggiunto un nuovo picco in questi giorni, a causa degli scontri seguiti alle manifestazioni di protesta lungo il confine tra…
Una questione tabù per gli israeliani
Published: 02/01/201002/01/2010
Original Version: A taboo question for Israelis
Se qualcuno ci avesse trattato come stiamo trattando la gente di Gaza, che cosa avremmo fatto noi? – si chiede il giornalista israeliano Larry Derfner
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C’è un interrogativo che…
A taboo question for Israelis
Published: 02/01/2010There’s a question we Israelis won’t ask ourselves about the Palestinians, especially not about Gaza. The question is taboo. Not only won’t anyone ask it out loud, but very, very few people will dare ask it in the privacy of…
We’re all Tzipi Livni
Published: 16/12/2009British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband have been sitting on their hands rather than push through legislation that would make it impractical for anti-Zionist campaigners to conduct “lawfare” against visiting Israeli officials.
The latest episode in…
La visione impossibile di Barack Obama
Published: 25/11/200917/11/2009
Original Version: Barack Obama’s vision impossible
Non vi è luogo al di fuori degli Stati Uniti – dove, in vista della possibile approvazione della riforma della sanità da parte del Senato, la situazione è leggermente diversa –…
Abbas to postpone PA elections
Published: 23/11/2009Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is set to formally announce the postponement of the presidential and parliamentary elections that he called for January 24, a PA official in Ramallah said on Sunday.
Abbas decided to cancel the vote following a…
Palestinian Affairs: Abbas’s big bluff
Published: 11/11/200906/11/2009 – Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to hold new presidential and parliamentary elections at the beginning of next year is seen by some of his aides as one of the strangest moves he has made since he was elected to succeed…
Clinton rejects PA condition for a West Bank settlement freeze
Published: 01/11/2009US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday night rejected Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s demand that Israel freeze all settlement activity as a precondition to negotiations.
Stopping construction in the settlements “has never been a precondition, it has…
Israele – Il nostro diritto esclusivo all’autodifesa
Published: 23/10/200923/10/2009
Original Version: Our exclusive right to self-defense
La vicenda della relazione Goldstone, che ha investigato per conto dell’ONU sui crimini di guerra commessi a Gaza in occasione dell’operazione “Piombo fuso”, ha in buona parte determinato in Israele…
Who lost Turkey?
Published: 21/10/200915/10/2009 - Could Israel have done anything to avoid the apparent rupture of its relationship with Turkey? Could we have made it inconceivable for the Turks to air, on state television, a serial portraying the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a struggle between…
Con l’arrivo della primavera, Israele dovrà decidere sull’Iran
Published: 07/10/200929/09/2009
Original Version: Come spring, Israel will have to decide on Iran
Segnatelo sul vostro calendario: primavera 2010.
Se tutto quello che si sta svolgendo in questo momento sul fronte iraniano continuerà come previsto, è allora che Israele…
Hamas and Fatah to end power struggle
Published: 05/10/2009Hamas and Fatah are set to sign a “reconciliation agreement” on October 22, ending their power struggle and paving the way for presidential and parliamentary elections, Egyptian and Palestinian sources said over the weekend.
Husam Zaki, spokesman for the Egyptian…
West Bank: border crossing to Jordan to open 24/7
Published: 10/07/2009With intensive discussions under way with the US about how to restart negotiations with the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday that the Allenby Bridge between the West Bank and Jordan will…
Amano: ‘No hard evidence Iran seeking nukes’
Published: 05/07/2009There is no concrete evidence that Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons, incoming International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said Friday, in his first public comments on Iran’s nuclear program.
“I don’t see any evidence in IAEA official…
Netanyahu: Walking between the raindrops
Published: 18/06/2009There is something pathetic about the evolution of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s policy speech at Bar Ilan University on Sunday. He and his advisers apparently decided they had to reply to US President Barack Obama’s Cairo University speech earlier this…
Reality Check: Netanyahu’s lost opportunity
Published: 16/06/2009Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu blew his chances of diffusing tensions with the United States long before he made last night’s speech. True, the speech didn’t help. His reluctant and unconvincing acceptance of the need for Palestinian statehood – he still…
Israel: Facing the looming regional threat
Published: 01/06/2009The nationwide emergency home front drill that will start on Sunday may not be connected to intelligence about an imminent attack on Israel, but it is strongly based on regional trends.
It starts after a month of missile tests, some…
Security and Defense: Spying trouble in Lebanon
Published: 23/05/2009The equipment shown to reporters by a masked Lebanese security officer was not all that fancy – hardly the stuff of James Bond movies: an Internet router, several laptops, a few cameras and a red Igloo water cooler (with an…
I cristiani che affrontano la pesante eredità della Chiesa
Published: 20/05/200913/05/2009
Come molti dei miei amici israeliani, anch’io sono stato scontento della visita del Papa a Gerusalemme la scorsa settimana, e non solo a causa delle strade chiuse e del frastuono del traffico.
No, la grande delusione riguarda la dichiarazione…
Analysis: A primer to the Washington summit
Published: 18/05/2009After weeks of planning, and months of speculation – much of it of the doomsday variety, about how a conservative Israeli prime minister will be unable to get along well with a liberal US President – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu…
Christians in Israel – Depths of despair
Published: 10/05/2009In 1946, two years before the State of Israel was established, the Christian community of Jerusalem numbered some 31,000, or 20 percent of the population. Today, Christians account for 2% of the capital’s population, or some 14,000 people, including monks…
Ahmadinejad seppellisce il processo di Durban
Published: 29/04/200921/04/2009
Le discussioni di corridoio nell’edificio delle Nazioni Unite prima dell’arrivo del presidente iraniano Ahmadinejad si erano concentrate su due questioni: avrebbe egli addolcito i toni della sua abituale negazione dell’Olocausto e delle sue minacce contro Israele al fine di…
Suddenly, Holocaust remembrance is also about the future
Published: 29/04/200922/04/2009 – Until now, Holocaust remembrance has been about the past: the systematic murder by Nazi Germany of six million European Jews between 1939 and 1945. Suddenly, Holocaust remembrance is also about the future. It’s about the threatened murder by…
Chance for an inclusive Israeli Left
Published: 17/04/2009This time around the Jewish left must not be afraid to join up with the Arab citizens of Israel. There are currently 11 members of the Arab parties in the Knesset, but there could be as many as 17 if…
Seeing the world through the Iranian prism
Published: 12/03/2009Like the Book of Esther read on Purim, where the reader is left with the sense that the main characters’ strings in ancient Persia were being pulled from behind the scenes, that there was a marionette on the other side…
Solo una nazione di musulmani combatte Israele. Perché?
Published: 26/01/200926/01/2009
Durante l’operazione “Piombo Fuso”, su circa 50 paesi musulmani nessuno è intervenuto contro Israele. I palestinesi, gli unici che sono dominati da Israele, sono gli unici che combattono realmente lo stato ebraico. C’è forse un legame tra il fatto
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I coloni di Gush Katif: la guerra di Gaza ci insegue
Published: 05/01/200905/01/2009
I coloni di Gush Katif, l’insediamento nella Striscia di Gaza evacuato nel 2005 a seguito del disimpegno israeliano voluto dall’allora primo ministro Ariel Sharon, ora vivono in roulotte e prefabbricati vicino al confine con Gaza, senza protezione dalla minaccia
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