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ISRAEL: OECD entry requires painful political changes
Israeli civil servants often use the signing of binding international agreements of the kind...
IsraelISRAEL: Bank interventions show forex reserves concern
Senior officials at the Bank of Israel (BoI) held an extraordinary meeting on October 18 with the...
IsraelMIDDLE EAST: Abbas will plan elections without Hamas
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced yesterday that he plans to...
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...
TURKEY/SYRIA: Relations improve as Israel feels heat
A day of meetings and ceremonies was held yesterday marking the improvement of relations between...
TurkeyRUSSIA: Contradictions undermine Iran, Israel policies
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to press for President Dmitry Medvedev and...
RussiaINTERNATIONAL: Counterinsurgency doctrine evolves
Since the tide began to turn for US operations in Iraq, counterinsurgency (COIN) theory has...
ISRAEL: Document leak assists Netanyahu's defiance
A policy proposal from the Foreign Ministry was leaked to the press yesterday, which argues that...
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