Israel

  • Oct 28, 2009
  • 7 min read

ISRAEL: OECD entry requires painful political changes

Israeli civil servants often use the signing of binding international agreements of the kind...

Israel
  • Oct 21, 2009
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ISRAEL: Bank interventions show forex reserves concern

Senior officials at the Bank of Israel (BoI) held an extraordinary meeting on October 18 with the...

Israel
  • Oct 21, 2009
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MIDDLE EAST: Abbas will plan elections without Hamas

Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced yesterday that he plans to...

  • Oct 15, 2009
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MIDDLE EAST: Abbas's standing is unlikely to recover

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will today vote on whether to endorse the Goldstone Report on...

  • Oct 14, 2009
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TURKEY/SYRIA: Relations improve as Israel feels heat

A day of meetings and ceremonies was held yesterday marking the improvement of relations between...

Turkey
  • Oct 12, 2009
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RUSSIA: Contradictions undermine Iran, Israel policies

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to press for President Dmitry Medvedev and...

Russia
  • Oct 9, 2009
  • 13 min read

INTERNATIONAL: Counterinsurgency doctrine evolves

Since the tide began to turn for US operations in Iraq, counterinsurgency (COIN) theory has...

  • Oct 9, 2009
  • 2 min read

ISRAEL: Document leak assists Netanyahu's defiance

A policy proposal from the Foreign Ministry was leaked to the press yesterday, which argues that...

Israel