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Law and Society
Middle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
5 weeks ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA:
The overwhelming majority of Israeli Arab Affairs correspondents have joined
with Israeli defense and other various officials to describe the Egyptian
wall building project as a genuine expression of a sincere commitment to
stop the smuggling of weapons and explosives to the Gaza Strip.
The alternative suggestion that this is more a matter of window dressing
combined with a considerable amount of money making (think of the many
millions of dollars being spent on the wall and the opportunity for kick
backs from the contractors) and that if Egypt actually wanted to stop the
smuggling they could achieve it by creating a sterile area on their side of
the border and enforcing restrictions/inspection on shipments coming into
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
5 weeks ago
The spring 2009 Pew Global Attitudes survey [Much of Moslem world unfavorable towards Iran Pres., Hamas, etc.]
The spring 2009 Pew Global Attitudes survey
http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/268.pdf
Growing Divide Between
Lebanese Sunni and Shia
Confidence in Nasrallah
--------------'07--'09
Shia 82 97
Sunni 9 2
Sunni-
Shia Gap -73 -95
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
5 weeks ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Stuart Cohen is hardly alone in suggesting that settlers be expelled from a given area while the IDF remain because Israel needs the IDF to remain in the area.
But experience has demonstrated time and again that for a variety of
reasons - be it lack of will or something else - when Israeli civilians are
no longer in an area, the IDF is ultimately pulled from it.
Would it have been easier not having to devote IDF resources protecting
civilians in area "X"?
Perhaps.
But. Again. Is that really the relevant policy consideration?
Isn't the overarching policy consideration, if control of area "X" is vital
to Israeli interests, is how to insure that in a moment of weakness that the
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
5 weeks ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA
So your Yossi Verter at Haaretz, just raring to go with a write up that is
going to use a simply devastating poll to attack those Neanderthals who
don't believe in the truth that he holds so dear - that he and all his
enlightened pals know is the absolute and incontrovertible truth (that if we
would just agree to withdraw to the '67 lines that there would be utopian
peace).
You already have prepared a some fantastic lines [in the Hebrew edition
version you can almost see the saliva dripping as he compared the Land of
Israel lobby to "the heroes of Peter Pan. It doesn't matter what the
diplomatic situation will be in the region, doesn't mater what is the policy
of their government, doesn't matter what the position is of their prime
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
6 weeks ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 4 February 2010
I know that one of my predecessors, Ariel Sharon, spoke from this podium
about disengagement. Today I would like to speak not of disengagement, but
rather of engagement: engagement with our heritage, with Zionism, with our
past and with our future here in the land of our forefathers, which is also
the land of our children and our grandchildren.
. our existence depends. on our ability to explain the justness of our path
and demonstrate our affinity for our land - first to ourselves and then to
others.
. Our purpose today is to reignite the flame, to introduce a new spirit
into the blaze of our lives and reconnect with this land - our land - the
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy david 2000
6 weeks ago
King Abdullah with interviewer Fareed Zakaria
Jordan’s King Abdullah is clearly feeling the pressure as the spotlight increasingly focuses on the role Jordan will have to play in resolving the allocation of sovereignty in the West Bank between Jews and Arabs.
This became very clear in the interview given by the King to Fareed Zakaria, in Davos Switzerland during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on 29 January.
The two-state solution - designed to create a new Arab State between Israel, Jordan and Egypt in the West Bank and Gaza - has comprehensively failed despite the most intensive diplomatic efforts to achieve such an outcome during the last 17 years
The root cause of failure has been the Arab League’s refusal to budge from its 43 years old negotiating position that demands: - the ceding by Israel of sovereignty in 100% of the West Bank and Gaza and
- Israel accepting millions of Arabs into the Jewish State
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