01/11/2023 | En Profundidad
Opinión - Mientras Biden se vuelve contra Israel, Netanyahu debe mantenerse firme
El presidente estadounidense, Joe Biden, el secretario de Estado, Antony Blinken, y el asesor de seguridad nacional Jake Sullivan anunciaron el domingo que Estados Unidos espera que Israel permita la entrada de "ayuda humanitaria" a Gaza.
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21/03/2021 | En Profundidad
Opinion - Abdullah the Irrelevant of Jordan
According to media reports in Israel and the US, last Thursday, Israel’s ties with Jordan stood on the brink of the abyss.
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24/06/2020 | En Profundidad
US - Opinion: Bolton's temper tantrum
John Bolton's conduct, both during his White House tenure and since his departure, shows that he has failed to accept the fact that he was an adviser, not a decision-maker.
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22/07/2018 | En Profundidad
Who is betraying America?
Did US President Donald Trump commit treason in Helsinki when he met Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Should he be impeached?.
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10/07/2018 | En Parrilla
US - Why Democrats are turning anti-Israel
Since President Donald Trump entered the White House, hardly a day has gone by without Israel receiving a warning from a Democratic politician or a liberal American Jewish leader that it had better curb its enthusiasm and be reticent in its support for Trump and his policies.
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27/05/2018 | Frente Externo
Heeding Democratic Warnings
“You will pay a price for your support of President Donald Trump,” we are told.
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30/03/2018 | Frente Externo
Egypt’s President Sisi is irreplacable
This week, Egyptian voters are going to the polls, either to vote to reelect President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi or to vote for the other guy.
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30/03/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hamas’s partners in its war against Israel
On Friday, the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, is inaugurating what it is calling “The March of Return.”
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26/12/2017 | Frente Externo
Israel’s learning disabled Right
It is an iron rule of Israeli politics regularly disregarded by the political Right that left-wing parties govern from the Left, not the Right; center-left parties govern from the Left, not from the Center.
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03/07/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The PLO’s IDF lobbyists
Should the United States pay Palestinian terrorists? For the overwhelming majority of Americans and Israelis this is a rhetorical question.
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02/07/2017 | Frente Externo
Who cares about Jewish unity?
There are four important aspects to the government’s decisions on Sunday relating to egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and the conversion bill. The first is that by and large, the headlines of the stories distort rather than explain what the government decided.
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18/02/2017 | Frente Externo
The Trump-Netanyahu alliance
When they met on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin were both walking wounded.
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14/01/2017 | Frente Externo
US - Obama’s transparent presidency
President Barack Obama promised that his would be the most transparent administration in US history. And the truth is, it was. At least in relation to his policies toward the Muslim world, Obama told us precisely what he intended to do and then he did it.
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04/01/2017 | Frente Externo
Our world: The PLO’s zero-sum game
The opportunity now upon us may be lost forever as the PLO comes back to win its zerosum game against Israel.
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03/12/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Castro’s greatest victory
The Palestinians are loudly mourning the passing of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. PLO Chief and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas ordered flags in the PA to be flown at half-mast on Sunday to honor Castro.
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02/12/2016 | Frente Externo
Israel’s constitutional identity crisis
Israel’s coalition crisis over the settlement’s regulation bill is not a normal power struggle between overweening politicians. It is not popularity contest between Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and his Kulanu Party and Education Minister Naftali Bennett and his Bayit Yehudi Party.
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01/10/2016 | Frente Externo
The New Middle East
A new Syria is emerging. And with it, a new Middle East and world are presenting themselves. Our new world is not a peaceful or stable one. It is a harsh place.
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29/08/2016 | En Profundidad
Soros's Campaign of Global Chaos
Major media outlets in the US have ignored the leak of thousands of emails from billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation by the activist hacker group DCLeaks. The OSF is the vehicle through which Soros has funneled billions of dollars over the past two decades to non-profit organizations in the US and throughout the world.
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11/06/2016 | Frente Externo
Israel rises in the East
There was something poetic about the events that bookended the past week of diplomacy. This week began with French President Francois Hollande’s “peace” conference and ended with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s state visit to Moscow.
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23/04/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Where UNESCO and ISIS converge
Palmyra “carries the memory of the Syrian people, and the values of cultural diversity, tolerance and openness that have made this region a cradle of civilization.”
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05/02/2016 | En Profundidad
A (much) better year
On Wednesday the US media interrupted its saturation coverage of the presidential primaries to report on President Barack Obama’s visit to a mosque in Maryland. The visit was Obama’s first public one to a mosque in the US since entering the White House seven years ago. The mosque Obama chose to visit demonstrated once again that his views of radical Islam are deeply problematic.
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18/10/2015 | Frente Externo
Kerry, Israeli Arabs and the Separation Delusion
Israel’s political leaders have rightly expressed anger at the US State Department’s hostile characterizations of the Palestinian terrorist onslaught. Secretary of State John Kerry’s claims, parroted by his spokesmen, that Israel is either entirely to blame for Palestinian terrorism or shares the blame equally with the Palestinians, are baseless lies.
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01/08/2015 | Frente Externo
Obama strikes again
Obama’s first hope was to reach a deal with his Iranian friends that would leave the Assad regime in place. But the Iranians blew him off.
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04/07/2015 | Economia y Finanzas
Israel’s populist energy crisis
The real cause of the plummet in investments in Israel lays elsewhere. And to understand it we need to understand recent developments in the natural gas industry.
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16/05/2015 | Frente Externo
Israel’s peace fantasists in action
The Saudis are in play, casting about for partners.In a clear vote of no-confidence in US President Barack Obama’s leadership, Saudi King Salman led several Arab leaders in blowing off Obama’s Camp David summit this week. The summit was meant to compensate the Sunni Arabs for Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
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16/03/2015 | Frente Externo
Israel’s next 22 months
The next 22 months until President Barack Obama leaves office promise to be the most challenging period in the history of US-Israel relations.
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29/11/2014 | Frente Externo
Iran’s No China
The Obama administration will never abandon its courtship of Iran. On the eve of the extended deadline in the US-led six-party talks with Iran regarding Teheran’s illicit nuclear weapons program, the one thing that is absolutely clear is that courting Iran is the centerpiece of US President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy. Come what may in Geneva, this will not change.
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22/10/2014 | Frente Externo
Obama the virtuoso manager
Since he assumed office nearly six years ago, US President Barack Obama has been dogged by allegations of managerial incompetence. Obama, his critics allege, had no managerial experience before he was elected. His lack of such experience, they claim, is reflected in what they see as his incompetent handling of the challenges of the presidency.
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20/10/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
There should be no Palestinian state
The New York Times online debating forum Room For Debate asked me to participate in an online forum regarding the rationale for recognizing the non-existent state of Palestine. Here’s what I wrote:
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14/10/2014 | Frente Externo
Israel Bashers’ Phony Contrition
Dr. Richard Horton, the editor of the English medical journal The Lancet, was not transformed by his visit to Israel last week.
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06/10/2014 | Frente Externo
Netanyahu’s statements and policies
Although media commentators overlooked it, the Obama administration did it again. They blindsided Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on the eve of his trip to Washington.
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19/09/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Obama’s self-defeating fight
The United States has a problem with Islamic State. Its problem is that it refuses to acknowledge why Islamic State is a problem.
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12/09/2014 | Frente Externo
Of politicians and moral courage
Leaders are not elected. Politicians are elected. Their election in turn provides politicians with the opportunity to become leaders.
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28/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why Israel is losing the information war
For most Israelis, the international discourse on Gaza is unintelligible.
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22/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Understanding the Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi alliance
Hamas’s war with Israel is not a stand-alone event. It is happening in the context of the vast changes that are casting asunder old patterns of behavior and strategic understandings as actors in the region begin to reassess the threats they face.
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10/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Israel, Hamas and Obama’s foreign policy
When US President Barack Obama phoned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night, in the middle of a security cabinet meeting, he ended any remaining doubt regarding his policy toward Israel and Hamas.
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18/07/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How to win in Gaza
Israel deployed ground forces in Gaza Thursday night both because Hamas’s terror tunnels into Israel have become an unacceptable threat, and because it had to break the deadlock that had developed between it and Hamas.
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22/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Threat Is Blowback
Watching the undoing, in a week, of victories that US forces won in Iraq at great cost over many years, Americans are asking themselves what, if anything, should be done.
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22/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ignoring the Elephant
Three Jewish boys were abducted by Palestinian terrorists while trying to catch a ride home from school Thursday night. And as far as the foreign press is concerned, it’s their own damned fault.
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09/05/2014 | Frente Externo
Rand Paul’s Support for Israel
Republican Senator Rand Paul is an isolationist. This ought to make him a natural ally for appeasers like Steve Walt and John Mearshimer and the whole blame Israel first crowd.
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30/04/2014 | Frente Externo
John Kerry’s Jewish best friends
Anti-Semitism is not a simple bigotry. It is a complex neurosis. It involves assigning malign intent to Jews where none exists on the one hand, and rejecting reason as a basis for understanding the world and operating within it on the other hand.
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21/04/2014 | Frente Externo
The disappearance of America’s will
The most terrifying aspect of the collapse of US power worldwide is the US’s indifferent response to it.
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13/01/2014 | Frente Externo
‘The New York Times’ destroys Obama
The New York Times just delivered a mortal blow to the Obama administration and its Middle East policy.
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17/12/2013 | Frente Externo
Kerry forces Israel’s moment of decision
There was a ghoulish creepiness to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Israel last week. Here we were, beset by the greatest winter storm in a hundred years. All roads to Jerusalem were sealed off. Tens of thousands of Jerusalemites and residents of surrounding areas were locked down in their houses, without power, heat, telephone service or water.
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21/10/2013 | Frente Externo
Israel's blind watcmen
During his visit to Israel in March, US President Barack Obama compelled Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to apologize to his Turkish counterpart for the actions of IDF Naval Commandos aboard the Mavi Marmara terror ship in May 2010.
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06/10/2013 | En Parrilla
Syria, Iran and the North Korean Model
Did US President Barack Obama score a great victory for the United States by concluding a deal with Russia on Syria’s chemical weapons or has he caused irreparable harm to the US’s reputation and international position?
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01/09/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Obama’s bread and circuses
Over the past week, President Barack Obama and his senior advisers have told us that the US is poised to go to war against Syria. In the next few days, the US intends to use its airpower and guided missiles to attack Syria in response to the regime’s use of chemical weapons in the outskirts of Damascus last week.
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24/08/2013 | Frente Externo
Resetting US foreign policy
Aside from the carnage in Benghazi, the most enduring image from Hillary Clinton’s tenure as US secretary of state was the fake remote control she brought with her to Moscow in 2009 with the word “Reset” in misspelled Russian embossed on it.
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21/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
When failure carries no cost
This week, after a three-and-a-half-year delay, US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was finally placed on trial for massacring 13 and wounding 32 at Ft. Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009.
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03/08/2013 | Frente Externo
Bibi and the true believers
Standing next to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday morning, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni gushed that through his indefatigable efforts to bring Israeli and Palestinian officials to Washington, Kerry proved that “nothing can stop true believers.”
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08/07/2013 | Frente Externo
Obama’s war of ideas
US foreign policy is failing worldwide.
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27/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Thank you Hafez al-Assad
The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certain that Israeli population centers will be hit by Syrian ballistic missiles and that we have to be prepared for the worst-case scenarios, including Scud missile-launched chemical weapons attacks on Israel's metropolitan centers.
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20/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Moral relativism and jihad
Two events happened on Wednesday which should send a shiver down the spine of everyone concerned about the future of the American Jewish community. But to understand their importance it is important to consider the context in which they occurred.
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25/03/2013 | Frente Externo
Obama’s mysterious visit
Obama's itinerary will bypass Israel's elected representatives by spurning the invitation to speak before the Knesset.
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14/11/2012 | Frente Externo
The party of victory
Next to the American people themselves, Israel is no doubt the biggest immediate loser in the U.S. presidential election. President Obama's foreign policy is predicated on the false notion that the U.S. and Israel themselves are the principal causes of the Islamic world's antipathy toward them.
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22/10/2012 | Frente Externo
Libya, Jordan and Obama's guiding lights
The operational, intelligence and political fiascos that led to and followed the September 11 jihadist assault on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, all derive from the same problem. That problem is the failure of US President Barack Obama's conceptual framework for understanding the Middle East.
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22/10/2012 | Frente Externo
US Election 2012 - American Jewry's cherished values
Decades ago, the sociographer Milton Himmelfarb coined the aphorism that "American Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans." And his words ring as true today as ever. Surveys show that roughly 70 percent of American Jews intend to cast their ballots for President Barack Obama's reelection next month.
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03/09/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Migron and the threat to Israeli democracy
By Tuesday, 50 Israeli families will have been tossed out of their homes in their village of Migron, which is set for destruction.
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25/08/2012 | Frente Externo
Israel faces the cynical world
This week a German doctor in Bavaria filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg.
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19/08/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Who lost Egypt?
In 1949, the Communist takeover of China rattled the US foreign policy establishment to its core. China's fall to Communism was correctly perceived as a massive strategic defeat for the US. The triumphant Mao Zedong placed China firmly in the Soviet camp and implemented foreign policies antithetical to US interests.
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13/08/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The IDF's Egyptian fiasco
So Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt Mohamed Morsy just sacked the leaders of the military junta General Hussein Tantawi and the Egyptian Army's' Chief of Staff General Sami Enan.
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04/08/2012 | En Parrilla
US Election 2012 - Israel - Obama's wedge issue
Less than 100 days before the US presidential elections, the Obama administration is openly denying Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem. Can this be a vote-getter?
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11/06/2012 | Frente Externo
Defeating the Jewish Alinskyites
Saul Alinsky, the godfather of subversive radical political action, had a very clear strategy for undermining and destroying his enemies: Infiltrate, divide and destroy.
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11/06/2012 | Frente Externo
The reign of the fantasists
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has done it again. Speaking on Wednesday at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Barak warned that if Israel can't cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it should consider surrendering Judea and Samaria in exchange for nothing.
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22/04/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The elephant of Jew hatred
Hatred of Jews is the central animating feature of the political and strategic reality of the Middle East. It is hatred of Jews that dictates the legal regimes, foreign policies, military aspirations, cultural mores, educational themes and even public health policies of our neighbors from Ramallah to Tehran.
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10/10/2011 | En Parrilla
Justice for Jonathan Pollard
Next month, convicted Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard will begin his 27th year in prison, and the Obama administration is displaying stunning insensitivity to what this means for the American Jewish community.
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10/10/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Turkey's house of cards
To the naked eye, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be moving from strength to strength. Erdogan was welcomed as a hero on his recent trip to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. The Arabs embraced him as the new face of the war against Israel.
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25/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Israel's path to victory
There is something surreal about the coverage of developments this week at the UN. The general tenor is akin to the showdown at the OK Corral. Either the Palestinians win recognition of statehood, or they don't. If they do, they win. If they don't, Israel wins.
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25/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Israel at the U.N.: A Sucker’s Game
This week’s Palestinian-statehood extravaganza at the U.N. is being billed as something of a modern-day showdown at the O.K. Corral. If the Palestinians gain recognition of their state, then Israel is the big loser. And if the Palestinians fail to gain U.N. recognition of “Palestine” as a member state, then Israel is the big winner.
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21/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Funding the Enemy
Speaking Sunday at the UN's conference of donors to the Palestinian Authority, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon warned that while Israel supports economic assistance to the PA now, that is liable to change within the week.
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15/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Lessons from the embassy takeover
We are able to consider the lessons of the weekend's mob assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo because the six Israeli security officers who were on the brink of being slaughtered were rescued at the last moment and spirited out of the country. If the Egyptian commandos hadn't arrived on the scene at the last moment, the situation would have been too explosive for a sober-minded assessment of the rapidly deteriorating situation with our neighbor to the south.
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15/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The war America fights
Ten years ago, in the shadow of the crater at Ground Zero, the smoldering Pentagon and a field of honor in Pennsylvania, America found itself at war.
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19/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Blood in the Streets
Israeli military preparedness follows a depressing pattern. The IDF does not change its assessments of the strategic environment until Israeli blood runs in the streets.
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14/08/2011 | Frente Externo
The Jacksonian Foreign Policy Option
Over the past several months, a certain intolerance has crept into the rhetoric of leading neoconservative publications and writers.
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06/08/2011 | Frente Externo
Obama's Only Policy
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has explained repeatedly over the years that Israel has no Palestinian partner to negotiate with. So news reports this week that Netanyahu agreed that the 1949 armistice lines, (commonly misrepresented as the 1967 borders), will be mentioned in terms of reference for future negotiations with the Palestinian Authority seemed to come out of nowhere.
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02/08/2011 | Frente Externo
The Media Revolutionaries
Last Monday Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz gave an interview to Channel 2's news anchor Yonit Levy during the prime-time news broadcast. Levy began the interview with a revealing "question."
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28/07/2011 | En Parrilla
No Prizes for Erdogan
Shortly after Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recip Erdogan came to power in 2002, he began undermining Turkey's strategic alliance with Israel. Erdogan officially ended the alliance last May when he sent the IHH, an al Qaeda-aligned, Turkish NGO affiliated with his Islamist AKP Party to lead the pro-Hamas flotilla to Gaza.
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24/07/2011 | Frente Externo
Israel's premier opportunist
Saying that Israel faces daunting challenges today and that those challenges will multiply and grow in the near future should not be construed as a partisan or ideological statement. Rather, it is a statement of fact.
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02/07/2011 | Frente Externo
Unmasking the ‘international community’
While emptily mouthing slogans of tolerance, adherents to the rule of the “international community” embrace the agenda of the most violent, intolerant, totalitarian forces in the world.
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02/07/2011 | Frente Externo
Unmasking the ‘international community’
While emptily mouthing slogans of tolerance, adherents to the rule of the “international community” embrace the agenda of the most violent, intolerant, totalitarian forces in the world.
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29/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Invisible Palestinians
Sunday was the first day of Sgt. Gilad Schalit's sixth year in captivity. Schalit was kidnapped on June 26, 2006 and has been held hostage by Palestinian terrorists affiliated with Hamas in Gaza ever since.
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29/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Invisible Palestinians
Sunday was the first day of Sgt. Gilad Schalit's sixth year in captivity. Schalit was kidnapped on June 26, 2006 and has been held hostage by Palestinian terrorists affiliated with Hamas in Gaza ever since.
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28/06/2011 | Frente Externo
An Obama foreign policy
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In an interview with Newsweek over the weekend, Gates sounded the warning bells.
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28/06/2011 | Frente Externo
An Obama foreign policy
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In an interview with Newsweek over the weekend, Gates sounded the warning bells.
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18/06/2011 | Frente Externo
A do-or-die moment
As was the case in May 1967, when the combined Arab armies gathered with the express purpose of wiping the Jewish state off the map – today again, Israel is alone at its hour of greatest peril.
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18/06/2011 | Frente Externo
A do-or-die moment
As was the case in May 1967, when the combined Arab armies gathered with the express purpose of wiping the Jewish state off the map – today again, Israel is alone at its hour of greatest peril.
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14/06/2011 | Frente Externo
Confronting Our Subversive Institutions
Shimon Schiffer and Nahum Barnea are both senior political commentators for Yediot Aharonot, Israel's largest circulation newspaper. They are both also leftist extremists. In their articles in last Friday's weekend edition of Yediot they demonstrated how their politics dictate their reporting - to the detriment of their readers and to Israeli democracy. They also demonstrated the disastrous consequences of the Left's takeover of predominant institutions in democratic societies.
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14/06/2011 | Frente Externo
Confronting Our Subversive Institutions
Shimon Schiffer and Nahum Barnea are both senior political commentators for Yediot Aharonot, Israel's largest circulation newspaper. They are both also leftist extremists. In their articles in last Friday's weekend edition of Yediot they demonstrated how their politics dictate their reporting - to the detriment of their readers and to Israeli democracy. They also demonstrated the disastrous consequences of the Left's takeover of predominant institutions in democratic societies.
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10/06/2011 | En Parrilla
Yale, Jews and double standards
Last week Yale University announced its decision to close down its institute for the study of anti-Semitism. The move has been widely criticized as politically motivated. For its part, the university claims that the move was the result of purely academic considerations.
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10/06/2011 | En Parrilla
Yale, Jews and double standards
Last week Yale University announced its decision to close down its institute for the study of anti-Semitism. The move has been widely criticized as politically motivated. For its part, the university claims that the move was the result of purely academic considerations.
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31/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Where Obama is leading Israel
In the aftermath of US President Barack Obama's May 19 speech on the Middle East, his supporters argued that the policy toward Israel and the Palestinians that Obama outlined in that speech was not anti-Israel. As they presented it, Obama's assertion that peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must be based on the 1967 lines with agreed swaps does not mark a substantive departure from the positions adopted by his predecessors in the Oval Office.
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31/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Where Obama is leading Israel
In the aftermath of US President Barack Obama's May 19 speech on the Middle East, his supporters argued that the policy toward Israel and the Palestinians that Obama outlined in that speech was not anti-Israel. As they presented it, Obama's assertion that peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must be based on the 1967 lines with agreed swaps does not mark a substantive departure from the positions adopted by his predecessors in the Oval Office.
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26/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Obama's diversionary tactics
As the Washington Post pointed out on Friday, US President Barack Obama purposely provoked the current fight with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He knew full well that Netanyahu does not back the Palestinian formulation that negotiations with Israel must be based on the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, or what are wrongly referred to as the 1967 lines. In the days leading up to Obama's speech last Thursday, Israel registered explicit, repeated requests that he not adopt the Palestinian position that negotiations should be based on those lines.
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26/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Obama's diversionary tactics
As the Washington Post pointed out on Friday, US President Barack Obama purposely provoked the current fight with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He knew full well that Netanyahu does not back the Palestinian formulation that negotiations with Israel must be based on the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, or what are wrongly referred to as the 1967 lines. In the days leading up to Obama's speech last Thursday, Israel registered explicit, repeated requests that he not adopt the Palestinian position that negotiations should be based on those lines.
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04/05/2011 | Sociedad
Competing visions of ''Never Again''
In the end, the Holocaust raged until the Allied powers won the war. It didn't have to be that way. If the Jews had been permitted to leave Europe, the Holocaust could have been averted. But the only place that wanted us wasn't allowed to take us. The nations of the world closed their gates. Only the Jews in the Land of Israel wanted the Jews of Europe. But the British barred their arrival.
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04/05/2011 | Sociedad
Competing visions of ''Never Again''
In the end, the Holocaust raged until the Allied powers won the war. It didn't have to be that way. If the Jews had been permitted to leave Europe, the Holocaust could have been averted. But the only place that wanted us wasn't allowed to take us. The nations of the world closed their gates. Only the Jews in the Land of Israel wanted the Jews of Europe. But the British barred their arrival.
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02/05/2011 | En Parrilla
Netanyahu's time to choose
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority's peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren't tragic. Immediately after the news broke of the deal Netanyahu announced, "The PA must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both."
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02/05/2011 | En Parrilla
Netanyahu's time to choose
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority's peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren't tragic. Immediately after the news broke of the deal Netanyahu announced, "The PA must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both."
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08/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Richard Goldstone and Palestinian statehood
Richard Goldstone's repudiation of the eponymous blood libel he authored in 2009 provides a number of lessons about the nature of the political war against the Jewish state and how we must act if we are to defeat it. Learning these lessons is an urgent task as we approach the next phase of the war to delegitimize us.
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08/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
American Jewry's fight
Over the past year or so, American Jewish opponents of Israel like writer and activist Peter Beinart have sought to intimidate and demoralize Israelis by telling us that American Jews either no longer support us or will stop supporting us if we don't give in to all the Arabs' demands.
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22/03/2011 | Frente Externo
America's descent into strategic dementia
What the US foreign policy fights regarding Egypt and Libya indicate is that currently, a discussion about how events impact core US regional interests is completely absent from the discussion.
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10/03/2011 | Sociedad
Women's surprising defenders
Every few months, we are presented with media reports about Jewish women rescued from their Muslim husbands in the Palestinian Authority or within Israel.
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06/03/2011 | Frente Externo
The New Middle East
If the mullahs aren’t overthrown, the New Middle East will be a very dark and dangerous place.
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20/02/2011 | Frente Externo
Lara Logan and media rules
Identity politics are nothing more than socially acceptable bigotry.
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06/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Israel and Arab Democracy
Over the past week, Israel has been criticized for being insufficiently supportive of democratic change in Egypt. While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been careful to praise the cause of democracy while warning against the dangers of an Islamic takeover of the most populous Arab state, many Israelis have not been so diplomatic.
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22/01/2011 | Frente Externo
Israel as the banana republic
As long as Livni remains powerful and loyal to their agenda, forces in the US gov't that despise the Jewish state will be able to rest easy.
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12/01/2011 | Frente Externo
Africa - Sudanese crossroads
On Sunday, the southern Sudanese began voting on a referendum to secede from the Republic of Sudan and establish their own sovereign nation. By all accounts, they will soon secede from the Arab, Islamic country and form an independent African, Christian and animist state.The consequences of their actions will reverberate around the world.
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08/01/2011 | Frente Externo
Agents of influence
On Sunday December 19, the self-proclaimed "Israeli human rights" group B'Tselem disseminated a shocking story to the local and international media. B'Tselem claimed that the previous day Palestinian shepherd Samir Bani Fadel was peacefully herding his sheep when he was set upon by a mob of Israeli settlers. He alleged that these kippah-clad Israelis drove up in a car and chased him away. Then they torched the pasture and burned 12 pregnant ewes alive and badly burned five others. B'Tselem furnished reporters with graphic photos of the dead sheep.
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01/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hizbullah and the information war
On January 15 the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon is scheduled to issue indictments against a number of Hizbullah operatives for the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. All of Lebanon and much of the region is waiting in suspense that grows with each passing day.
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29/12/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The wars of 2011
On Sunday thousands of Israel haters gathered in Istanbul to welcome the Turkish-Hamas terror ship Mavi Marmara to the harbor. Festooned with Palestinian flags, the crowd chanted "Death to Israel," "Down with Israel" and "Allah akbar" with Hizbullah-like enthusiasm.
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25/12/2010 | Frente Externo
Slouching towards Teheran
Two weeks ago, Iran scored a massive victory. Jordan, the West's most stable and loyal ally in the Arab world began slouching towards the Iranian Gomorrah.
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23/12/2010 | Frente Externo
A time to shout
The new campaign calling for the release of Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard from prison in the US is in many ways a curious development. Pollard was arrested in 1985 and convicted on one count of transferring classified information to Israel during his service in US Naval Intelligence. He pleaded guilty to the charge in the framework of a plea bargain in which the US attorney pledged not to request a life sentence.
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19/12/2010 | Frente Externo
The feminist deception
Making the rounds on YouTube these days is a film of a group of manly looking women preparing for and conducting a "flash dance" in a Philadelphia food store. The crew of ladies, dressed in tight black clothes and sequined accessories, arrives at The Fresh Grocer supermarket, breaks into a preplanned chant ordering shoppers not to buy Sabra and Tribe hummus and telling them to oppose Israeli "apartheid" and support "Palestine."
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26/11/2010 | Frente Externo
Rocking Obama's world
Crises are exploding throughout the world. And the leader of the free world is making things worse. On the Korean peninsula, North Korea just upended eight years of State Department obfuscation by showing a team of US nuclear scientists its collection of thousands of state-of-the-art centrifuges installed in its Yongbyon nuclear reactor.
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22/11/2010 | Frente Externo
Facing our fears
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must have given Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu quite a reception. Otherwise it is hard to understand what possessed him to accept the deal he accepted when he met with her last week.
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16/11/2010 | Frente Externo
What the Palestinians buy with American money
Two weeks ago, a Palestinian from Bethlehem was arrested by the US-financed and trained Palestinian Authority security forces. He was charged with "carrying out commercial transactions with residents of a hostile state."
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06/11/2010 | Frente Externo
We are not for sale
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is playing with fire. And Israel is getting burned.
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03/11/2010 | Frente Externo
The Age of Dissimulation
Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to it as the Age of Dissimulation. Today our leading minds devote their energies and cognitive powers to figuring out new ways to hide reality from themselves and the general public.
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13/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Rise of the suicide protests
David Be'eri is either much admired or much hated, depending on how you feel about Israel and Jewish heritage. Be'eri is the founder and head of the Ir David Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to excavating, preserving and developing biblical Jerusalem, the City of David.
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10/10/2010 | Frente Externo
Do Jews have civil rights?
A striking aspect of the so-called building freeze in Judea and Samaria that expired last week is that an enormous amount of construction went on throughout the last 10 months. The Arabs of Judea and Samaria were not only building without restrictions, the US, Europe and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf bankrolled much of their construction.
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04/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The strategic lessons of Stuxnet
There's a new cyber-weapon on the block. And it's a doozy. Stuxnet, a malicious software, or malware, program was apparently first discovered in June. Although it has appeared in India, Pakistan and Indonesia, Iran's industrial complexes - including its nuclear installations - are its main victims.
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22/09/2010 | Frente Externo
Who lost Turkey?
You have to hand it to Turkey's Islamist leaders. They sure know how to get their way. In the seven years since they first took power, the Islamist AKP party has successfully transformed Turkey from a staunch ally of the US and Israel and a member of NATO into a staunch ally of Iran and a member of NATO.
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15/09/2010 | Frente Externo
Saad Hariri's cautionary tale
Lebanon is a sad and desperate place. And its disastrous fate is personified today by its prime minister.
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04/09/2010 | Frente Externo
The new Netanyahu?
Despite a multi-million dollar media blitz, Israelis are not buying the US-financed Geneva Initiative's attempt to convince us that we have a Palestinian partner. A week after the pro-Palestinian group launched its massive online promotion urging people to join its Facebook page, a mere 634 people had answered the call.
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04/09/2010 | Frente Externo
The new Netanyahu?
Despite a multi-million dollar media blitz, Israelis are not buying the US-financed Geneva Initiative's attempt to convince us that we have a Palestinian partner. A week after the pro-Palestinian group launched its massive online promotion urging people to join its Facebook page, a mere 634 people had answered the call.
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28/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Accepting the unacceptable
Last weekend the mullahs took a big step towards becoming a nuclear power as they powered the Bushehr nuclear reactor.
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28/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Accepting the unacceptable
Last weekend the mullahs took a big step towards becoming a nuclear power as they powered the Bushehr nuclear reactor.
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22/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Dusk in Iraq
A troubling milestone arrived on Thursday when the US withdrew its final combat brigade from Iraq. The remaining 50,000 US forces are charged with advising and training the Iraqi military. President Barack Obama has pledged to withdraw them as well by the end of next year.
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22/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Dusk in Iraq
A troubling milestone arrived on Thursday when the US withdrew its final combat brigade from Iraq. The remaining 50,000 US forces are charged with advising and training the Iraqi military. President Barack Obama has pledged to withdraw them as well by the end of next year.
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18/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Standing on a landmine
US President Barack Obama's warm endorsement of the plan to build a mosque by the ruins of the World Trade Center tells Israel - and its enemies - everything we need to know about the Pesident of the United States of America.
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18/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Standing on a landmine
US President Barack Obama's warm endorsement of the plan to build a mosque by the ruins of the World Trade Center tells Israel - and its enemies - everything we need to know about the Pesident of the United States of America.
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13/08/2010 | Frente Externo
Guide to the perplexed
Israel's leaders are reportedly concerning themselves with one question today. Are there any circumstances in which US President Barack Obama will order the US military to strike Iran's nuclear installations before Iran develops a nuclear arsenal?
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07/08/2010 | En Profundidad
Israel's made-in-America enemies
It wasn't a US Army sniper who killed IDF Lt.- Col. Dov Harari and seriously wounded Capt. Ezra Lakia on Tuesday. But the Lebanese Armed Forces sniper who shot them owes a great deal to the generous support the LAF has received from America.
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31/07/2010 | Frente Externo
Israel's ruling class
In a much discussed article in the current issue of the American Spectator titled "America's Ruling Class," Prof. Angelo Codevilla describes the divide between those who run the US - the politicians, bureaucrats and policy establishment - and the rest of the country.
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31/07/2010 | Frente Externo
See no evil
"Oliver stone joins Thomas, Gibson in ranks of out-of-closet Jew-haters."
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27/07/2010 | Frente Externo
The new, improved Obama
You have to hand it to US President Barack Obama. He is relentless. Just when you thought he was shifting gears - easing up on Israel and turning his attention to Iran's nuclear weapons program - he pulls out a zinger.
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24/07/2010 | En Parrilla
Change we must believe in
Change has come to the Middle East. Over the past several weeks, multiple press reports indicate that Turkey is collaborating militarily with Syria in a campaign against the Kurds of Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
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14/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A war on whose terms?
We are entering troubling times. The conviction that war is upon us grows with each passing day. What remains to be determined is who will dictate the terms of that war – Iran or Israel.
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10/07/2010 | Frente Externo
Trash reporting scribes whose poisoned pens conveniently go dry
What the media refuses to inform you of, is often more important than what it reports. This is especially so if you are a believing Christian or religious Jew
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10/07/2010 | En Parrilla
Fit for the New York Times
Two important statements this week shed a light on the nature of the Palestinian conflict with Israel. Both were barely noted by the media.
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06/07/2010 | En Parrilla
Standing down the hanging jury
In Britain today, hating Israel has become a valid criminal defense. This week five criminal defendants charged with destroying property valued at some $285,000 at the EDO MBM arms factory in Brighton during a January 2009 break-in were found innocent of all charges. They were found innocent despite the fact that all five admitted to having committed the crime.
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02/07/2010 | En Parrilla
Netanyahu must play for time
Just ahead of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's trip next week to Washington, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas went on a charm offensive towards the Israeli media. On Tuesday Abbas invited representatives of the Hebrew-language press to his office in Ramallah and assured them of his good intentions towards Israel.
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01/07/2010 | Frente Externo
Alternatives to surrender
To the roaring cheers of the local media, on Sunday the Schalit family embarked on a cross-country march to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's residence. They set out two days after the fourth anniversary of IDF Sgt. Gilad Schalit's captivity.
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27/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The western way of war
General Stanley McChrystal has paid a huge price for his decision to give Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings free access to himself and his staff. But he performed a great service for the rest of us. US President Barack Obama fired McChrystal -- his hand-picked choice to command NATO forces in Afghanistan -- for the things that he and his aides told Hastings about the problematic nature of the US-led war effort in Afghanistan. But by acting as he did, McChrystal forced the rest of us to contend with the unpleasant truth not only about the US-led campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He told us the unpleasant truth about the problematic nature of the Western way of war at the outset of the 21st century.
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19/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Weathering the approaching storm
Israel is endangered today as it has never been before. The Turkish-Hamas flotilla two weeks ago precipitated a number of dangerous developments. Rather than attend to all of them, Israel's leadership is devoting itself almost exclusively to contending with the least dangerous among them while ignoring the emerging threats with the potential to lead us to great calamities.
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12/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The first rule of strategy
The first rule of strategy is to keep your opponent busy attending to your agenda so he has no time to advance his own. Unfortunately, Israel's leaders seem unaware of this rule, while Iran's rulers triumph in its application.
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08/06/2010 | Frente Externo
The plain truth about Israel
In other times, Hearst Newspapers White House Correspondent Helen Thomas's demand that the Jews "get the hell out of Palestine," and go back to Poland, Germany and America would have been front page news in every newspaper in the US the day after the story broke.
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01/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ending Israel's losing streak
These words are being written before the dust has had a chance to settle on Monday night's naval commando raid of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla of terror supporters. The raid's full range of operational failures still cannot be known. Obviously the fact that the mission ended with at least six soldiers wounded and at least ten Hamas supporters dead makes clear that there were significant failures in both the IDF's training for and execution of the mission.
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29/05/2010 | Frente Externo
Netanyahu, Obama's newest prop
The Democratic Party is feeling the heat for US President Barack Obama's hostility towards Israel. In an interview with Channel 10 earlier this month, Democratic Party mega-donor Haim Saban characterized the Obama administration as ideologically aligned with the radical Left and harshly criticized its treatment of Israel.
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27/05/2010 | Frente Externo
Reclaiming our language from the Left
Courtesy of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Thursday Israel will again be the target of a jihadist-leftist propaganda assault. A flotilla of nine ships which set sail for Gaza from Cyprus earlier this week is scheduled to arrive at our doorstep.
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25/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
South Korea, North Korea, Israel & Iran
On Thursday the South Korean government did something important. It told the truth about North Korean aggression. On March 26, a North Korean submarine attacked a South Korean naval corvette with a torpedo. Forty-six South Korean sailors were killed in the unprovoked attack. And on May 20, the South Koreans ended all ambiguity about the nature of the attack and placed the blame where it belongs.
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19/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hizbullah on the homefront
Last week Lebanese commentator Tony Badran published an article on the Now Lebanon Web site discussing the Iranian way of war. In "The shape of things to come," he discussed the significance of the breakup of a Hizbullah cell in Kuwait and the deportation of Hizbullah agents from Bahrain. Badran explained that like the Hizbullah ring arrested last year in Egypt, the Hizbullah cells in Persian Gulf states demonstrate how Iran uses Hizbullah to extend its regional power.
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16/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Making Israel's case
Forty-three years after the Jewish people liberated Jerusalem, our capital has never been under greater assault. But it has also never been more energetically defended by an indignant Jewish people - in Israel and throughout the world.
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08/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Time to plan for war
So much for US President Barack Obama's famed powers of persuasion. At the UN's Nuclear Non-Poliferation Treaty review conference which opened this week, the Obama administration managed to lose control over the agenda before the conference even started.
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04/05/2010 | Frente Externo
Convenient moral blindness
Moral blindness in the face of evil is depravity. But in the upside-down moral universe of our world today, moral blindness has become a badge of honor. If you refuse to call evil by its name, then you are a moderate. And if you stand up to evil, you are yourself an extremist.
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30/04/2010 | Frente Externo
Barreling on, regardless
If safeguarding international security is the chief aim of US President Barack Obama's foreign policy, then at some point he can be expected to change course in the Middle East. For today, Obama faces the wreckage of every aspect of his Middle East policies. And largely as a consequence of his policies, the region moves ever closer to war.
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26/04/2010 | Frente Externo
Strategic foundations of the US-Israel alliance
Israel’s status as the US’s most vital ally in the Middle East has been so widely recognized for so long that over the years, Israeli and American leaders alike have felt it unnecessary to explain what it is about the alliance that makes it so important for the US.
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17/04/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Haaretz Spy Scandal
Over the past two weeks Israel has been rocked by a major espionage scandal in which the Haaretz newspaper plays a central role. To understand the significance of the scandal, it is worthwhile to preface a discussion of it with a look at a smaller story Haaretz developed this week.
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11/04/2010 | Frente Externo
Israel the strong horse
What does Jordan's King Abdullah want from Israel? This week Abdullah gave a long and much cited interview to the Wall Street Journal. There he appeared to be begging US President Barack Obama to turn up the heat still further on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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01/04/2010 | Frente Externo
Obama's Jewish defenders
Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama opened a diplomatic war on Israel. The proximate cause of his offensive was the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Board's decision to approve the future construction of 1,600 housing units in northern Jerusalem.
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14/03/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
March of the red/green brigades
The Red-Green alliance is on the march. On Wednesday, the leftist-controlled European Parliament in Strasbourg passed a resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. That report, it will be recalled, denies Israel's right to self-defense by alleging that Israel's actions to defend itself from illegal Palestinian aggression during the course of Operation Cast Lead were war crimes.
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28/02/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
When rhetoric rules the roost
There is something pathetic about what passes as European foreign policy these days. Quite simply, more often than not, the concerted positions of the EU member nations have nothing to do with any of their national interests.
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15/02/2010 | Frente Externo
Sarah Palin's friendship
US President Barack Obama is an inept, incompetent leader. More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health care and global warming despite his Democratic Party's control over both houses of Congress, Iran's announcement on Thursday that it is a nuclear power and has the capacity to produce weapons-grade uranium is a testament to Obama's feckless incompetence. Even his most ardent supporters are admitting this.
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13/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Lebanon's legacy in Afghanistan
The day after US President Barack Obama announced that he was deploying additional US forces to Afghanistan, an event occurred in Beirut that brought home the stakes in that battle.
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13/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Lebanon's legacy in Afghanistan
The day after US President Barack Obama announced that he was deploying additional US forces to Afghanistan, an event occurred in Beirut that brought home the stakes in that battle.
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15/11/2009 | Frente Externo
Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity
Once again, US President Barack Obama has demonstrated his intention of "putting light" between America and Israel. His hostility toward Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during the latter's visit to Washington this week was breathtaking.
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15/11/2009 | Frente Externo
Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity
Once again, US President Barack Obama has demonstrated his intention of "putting light" between America and Israel. His hostility toward Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during the latter's visit to Washington this week was breathtaking.
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05/11/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Silencing dissent in America
Former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold should probably buy himself a flak jacket. Gold is scheduled to debate Richard Goldstone at Brandeis University next Thursday and the anti-Israel forces are organizing quite a reception for him.
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27/10/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Waging diplomatic war
If, to paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, diplomacy is war by other means, then just as armies are called upon to concentrate their efforts and resources where they can do the most good for their cause, so governments must utilize their diplomatic resources - whether plentiful or scarce - to advance their most important national interests.
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20/09/2009 | En Parrilla
Our iredeemable international system
Our international institutions are irredeemably corrupted. From the United Nations to the International Criminal Court and their affiliate and subordinate bodies, these institutions are rotten at their core.
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16/09/2009 | Frente Externo
America's exceptional ally
There has been much talk in recent months about the prospect of Syria bolting the Iranian axis and becoming magically transformed into an ally of the West. Although Syria's President-for-life Bashar Assad's daily demonstrations of fealty to his murderous friends has exposed this talk as nothing more than fantasy, it continues to dominate the international discourse on Syria.
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06/09/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Time's up on Iran
Over the past few weeks evidence has piled up that Iran is not years away from being capable of building nuclear bombs at will. It is months away. As the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency on Teheran's nuclear program makes clear, at its present rate of uranium enrichment, Iran will have sufficient quantities of enriched uranium to build two atomic bombs by February.
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22/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Netanyahu's perilous statecraft
This week we discovered that we have been deceived. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's principled rejection of US President Barack Obama's bigoted demand that Israel bar Jews from building new homes and expanding existing ones in Judea and Samaria does not reflect his actual policy.
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22/08/2009 | Frente Externo
Netanyahu's perilous statecraft
This week we discovered that we have been deceived. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's principled rejection of US President Barack Obama's bigoted demand that Israel bar Jews from building new homes and expanding existing ones in Judea and Samaria does not reflect his actual policy.
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19/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Fatah's message
A central pillar of the Obama administration's Middle East policy paradigm was shattered at the Fatah conference in Bethlehem - but don't expect the White House to notice.
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11/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Israel and the 'realists'
Voices in America calling for downgrading US relations with Israel seem to multiply by the day. One of the new voices in the growing anti-Israel chorus is the Atlantic's well-respected military affairs commentator, Robert Kaplan. This week Kaplan authored a column for the magazine's online edition titled "Losing patience with Israel."
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11/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Israel and the 'realists'
Voices in America calling for downgrading US relations with Israel seem to multiply by the day. One of the new voices in the growing anti-Israel chorus is the Atlantic's well-respected military affairs commentator, Robert Kaplan. This week Kaplan authored a column for the magazine's online edition titled "Losing patience with Israel."
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02/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Terror training grounds
From 1970 to 1980, Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Now she's a law professor at Northwestern University Law School where she teaches a course on law and the Palestinian conflict with Israel.
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02/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Terror training grounds
From 1970 to 1980, Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Now she's a law professor at Northwestern University Law School where she teaches a course on law and the Palestinian conflict with Israel.
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14/07/2009 | Frente Externo
Numbering the days of dictators
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had reason to feel good about himself this week. Less than a month after he secured his hold on power for another four years by rigging the presidential elections, Ahmadinejad felt comfortable addressing his subjugated nation as its rightful dictator. So in a chilling televised performance on Tuesday, he triumphantly declared the stolen June 12 poll the "freest" and the "healthiest" elections in the world and promised they would act as a harbinger for Islamic revolution worldwide.
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14/07/2009 | Frente Externo
Numbering the days of dictators
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had reason to feel good about himself this week. Less than a month after he secured his hold on power for another four years by rigging the presidential elections, Ahmadinejad felt comfortable addressing his subjugated nation as its rightful dictator. So in a chilling televised performance on Tuesday, he triumphantly declared the stolen June 12 poll the "freest" and the "healthiest" elections in the world and promised they would act as a harbinger for Islamic revolution worldwide.
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08/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Soldiers of peace
Compare and contrast the following three events: At the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, George Schulte, the US ambassador to the IAEA, pointed an accusatory finger at Syria. Damascus, Schulte said, has not come clean on its nuclear program. That program, of course, was exposed in September 2007 when Israel reportedly destroyed Syria's North Korean-built, Iranian-financed al-Kibar nuclear reactor.
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08/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Soldiers of peace
Compare and contrast the following three events: At the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, George Schulte, the US ambassador to the IAEA, pointed an accusatory finger at Syria. Damascus, Schulte said, has not come clean on its nuclear program. That program, of course, was exposed in September 2007 when Israel reportedly destroyed Syria's North Korean-built, Iranian-financed al-Kibar nuclear reactor.
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07/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Soldiers of peace
Compare and contrast the following three events: At the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, George Schulte, the US ambassador to the IAEA, pointed an accusatory finger at Syria. Damascus, Schulte said, has not come clean on its nuclear program. That program, of course, was exposed in September 2007 when Israel reportedly destroyed Syria's North Korean-built, Iranian-financed al-Kibar nuclear reactor.
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07/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Soldiers of peace
Compare and contrast the following three events: At the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, George Schulte, the US ambassador to the IAEA, pointed an accusatory finger at Syria. Damascus, Schulte said, has not come clean on its nuclear program. That program, of course, was exposed in September 2007 when Israel reportedly destroyed Syria's North Korean-built, Iranian-financed al-Kibar nuclear reactor.
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03/03/2009 | Frente Externo
Kadima's strategy for success
Provoked by the Palestinians' escalating missile campaign, on Sunday evening the Ashkelon Parents Association voted not to send their children to school on Monday.
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03/03/2009 | Frente Externo
Kadima's strategy for success
Provoked by the Palestinians' escalating missile campaign, on Sunday evening the Ashkelon Parents Association voted not to send their children to school on Monday.
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01/03/2009 | Frente Externo
Entrapping Netanyahu
Negotiations between Likud and its coalition partners toward the formation of Israel's next government have only just begun. But the campaign to undermine the government-in-formation's ability to determine Israel's future course is already well underway.
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01/03/2009 | Frente Externo
Entrapping Netanyahu
Negotiations between Likud and its coalition partners toward the formation of Israel's next government have only just begun. But the campaign to undermine the government-in-formation's ability to determine Israel's future course is already well underway.
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22/02/2009 | En Profundidad
The First Word: Next year - in Des Moines?
On September 15, 1825, Buffalo, New York was the site of a grand ceremony that might have changed the course of Jewish history. On that day in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, journalist and Democratic Party activist Mordecai Manuel Noah announced to a large crowd the creation of "the Jewish State of Ararat" on Grand Island in the Niagara River, near the US border with Canada.
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10/01/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Netzarim-Tel Aviv Express
Today's war between Israel and Hamas is a remarkable case study in how leaders in democracies learn. In a nutshell, it shows that leaders only learn when we, the people, force them.
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02/01/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Patriots and false patriots
Two years ago, the North was a war zone. Fields and forests, homes and hospitals were set ablaze by Hizbullah missiles. But on Sunday afternoon, as a tireless patriot was laid to rest in the Jezreel Valley, the ground was not burning with missile fire, it was exploding with fecundity. It filled the air with the aroma of its promise of spring harvests.
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19/11/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Perils ahead
US President-elect Barack Obama has properly sought to maintain a low profile in foreign affairs in this transition period ahead of his January inauguration. But while Obama has stipulated that the US can have only one president at a time, his aides and advisers are signaling that he intends to move US foreign policy in a sharply different direction from its current trajectory once he assumes office.
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19/11/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Perils ahead
US President-elect Barack Obama has properly sought to maintain a low profile in foreign affairs in this transition period ahead of his January inauguration. But while Obama has stipulated that the US can have only one president at a time, his aides and advisers are signaling that he intends to move US foreign policy in a sharply different direction from its current trajectory once he assumes office.
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28/10/2008 | Frente Externo
All roads lead to Jerusalem
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's failure to form a government proved that all roads do in fact lead to Jerusalem. It was the issue of Jerusalem that deadlocked and ultimately scuttled Livni's coalition negotiations with Shas, which demanded that she pledge not to negotiate the partition of the city with the Palestinians. Livni refused to make such a pledge. And so the negotiations failed and new elections will soon be called.
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28/10/2008 | Frente Externo
All roads lead to Jerusalem
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's failure to form a government proved that all roads do in fact lead to Jerusalem. It was the issue of Jerusalem that deadlocked and ultimately scuttled Livni's coalition negotiations with Shas, which demanded that she pledge not to negotiate the partition of the city with the Palestinians. Livni refused to make such a pledge. And so the negotiations failed and new elections will soon be called.
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06/10/2008 | Frente Externo
Doña Limpia es un fraude
La Ministra de Exteriores Tzipi Livni puede no ser una ladrona, pero sigue siendo un fraude. Y si de confiar en las encuestas se trata, Livni el fraude está a solamente unas elecciones de convertirse en nuestro primer ministro.
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06/10/2008 | Frente Externo
Doña Limpia es un fraude
La Ministra de Exteriores Tzipi Livni puede no ser una ladrona, pero sigue siendo un fraude. Y si de confiar en las encuestas se trata, Livni el fraude está a solamente unas elecciones de convertirse en nuestro primer ministro.
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25/09/2008 | Frente Externo
La impresentable herencia de Olmert
En la medida en que supera los peligros de las desastrosas conversaciones de Olmert con Assad, sus conversaciones con los palestinos ponen en peligro al país.
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25/09/2008 | Frente Externo
La impresentable herencia de Olmert
En la medida en que supera los peligros de las desastrosas conversaciones de Olmert con Assad, sus conversaciones con los palestinos ponen en peligro al país.
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23/04/2008 | Frente Externo
Obama the Savior
Speaking in February of the man she knows better than anyone else does, Michelle Obama said that her husband, Illinois Senator and candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination Barack Obama, is the only candidate for president who understands that before America can solve its problems, Americans have to fix their "broken souls."
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16/04/2008 | En Profundidad
Miedo a la democracia
Occidente permanece ocioso mientras sus cimientos son hechos pedazos. El pasado viernes, el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas asestaba un golpe mortal a la libertad de expresión. En una votación 32 a 0, el Consejo ordenaba a su "experto en libertad de expresión" que informase al Consejo de todos los casos en los que los individuos "abusan" de su derecho a la libertad de expresión realizando expresiones de prejuicios religiosos o raciales.
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04/04/2008 | Transparencia
El problema de transparencia de Israel
El 10 de abril está dispuesto que dos hermanos comiencen a cumplir penas de cárcel por un crimen que nunca cometieron. Yitzhak y Daniel Halamish fueron procesados por asalto con agravantes y fueron condenados, respectivamente, a 7 y 8 meses de cárcel.
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12/03/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El gran juego de estrategia de Irán
Occidente hace un lectura errónea de la situación en Medio Oriente; existe una relación evidente entre la política regional de Irán y su programa nuclear.
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18/01/2008 | Frente Externo
Los paralelos históricos de Bush
Durante su mandato como secretario de defensa del Presidente Bush, Rumsfeld comparada con frecuencia las decisiones en materia de política exterior de la administración con la de la administración Truman durante los primeros de la Guerra Fría.
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12/01/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
George in Jihadland
US President George W. Bush arrived in Israel at the start of an eight-day tour of the Middle East at an interesting moment. In the lead-up to his trip, enemy forces, of both the terrorist and state variety, clarified their strategic outlook and the scope of their ambitions. Unfortunately, the president seems not to have noticed.
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23/11/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
De la AMIA al armagedón
Según informaciones extranjeras, Israel destruyó una instalación de armamento nuclear en Siria en septiembre. Nunca una historia mayor ha sido escondida bajo la alfombra por tanta gente con tanta rapidez. ¿Qué debemos deducir de esto?
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27/10/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Trying to Prevent World War III
It goes without saying that if and when a decision is made in Jerusalem or Washington to carry out an attack against Iran's nuclear installations the public will only learn of the decision in retrospect.
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10/10/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pakistani nightmare
As expected, after bending the Pakistani constitution like a pretzel, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf won his bid for reelection on Saturday. But Musharraf has not been strengthened by the race, to the contrary.
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25/09/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How not to help ''moderates''
According to the commander of Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, Israel's raid in Syria on September 6 against what was reportedly a North Korean-supplied nuclear installation in eastern Syria restored Israel's deterrent posture which was so weakened in last summer's war in Lebanon.
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20/09/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Recognizing the Axis of Evil
If media reports of last week's IAF raid in Syria pan out, the attack against a North-Korean-supplied Syrian nuclear facility in eastern Syria should serve as a pivotal event in the free world's understanding of the enemy it faces in the current global war.
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28/08/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Baradei's nuclear policy
The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency Director Muhammad ElBaradei is a man of dubious integrity. In 2005 he was vaunted to the heights of the international stratosphere when he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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16/07/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Don't worry, be happy!?
En la mayor victoria de Inteligencia lograda nunca por una organización jihadista, Hamas (e Irán) ahora poseen los archivos de todos los aparatos palestinos de seguridad.
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14/07/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
No heroes in Act Three
Will the US and Israeli belief that a hero will suddenly appear to save the day for the Palestinians never die? Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George W. Bush are in for a big disappointment.
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03/07/2007 | Frente Externo
Our World: Olmert's international coalitions
Today Hamas consolidates its power in Gaza and plans its next moves in Judea and Samaria. Fatah - its main competitor - has collapsed.Fatah was plunged into a state of organizational shock last month after its US-trained militias surrendered control of Gaza to Hamas and its US-benighted commanders fled the area.
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01/06/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Israel y la propaganda del enemigo
Israel tiene que ser fuerte para defenderse e impedir que nuestros enemigos adquieran la capacidad de llevar a cabo sus perversos designios. Pero como señala Ya´alón, durante los últimos 13 años, este mensaje obvio raramente ha sido mencionado. Ciertamente no ha constituido las políticas de los gobiernos de Israel.
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01/06/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Israel y la propaganda del enemigo
Israel tiene que ser fuerte para defenderse e impedir que nuestros enemigos adquieran la capacidad de llevar a cabo sus perversos designios. Pero como señala Ya´alón, durante los últimos 13 años, este mensaje obvio raramente ha sido mencionado. Ciertamente no ha constituido las políticas de los gobiernos de Israel.
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30/04/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bishara y la vieja guardia
La decisión misma por parte del brazo policial de Israel de abrir una investigación contra Bishara por sus actos de traición es un avance a celebrar.
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30/04/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bishara y la vieja guardia
La decisión misma por parte del brazo policial de Israel de abrir una investigación contra Bishara por sus actos de traición es un avance a celebrar.
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17/04/2007 | En Parrilla
¿Tenemos que perder esta guerra?
Aún más preocupante que la confusión política de América es el colapso político de Israel. Israel, el país amenazado más directamente por las presentes tendencias regionales e internacionales, se encuentra en esta encrucijada peligrosa sin ninguna política, bien hacia nuestros enemigos, bien hacia los países del mundo libre.
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17/04/2007 | En Parrilla
¿Tenemos que perder esta guerra?
Aún más preocupante que la confusión política de América es el colapso político de Israel. Israel, el país amenazado más directamente por las presentes tendencias regionales e internacionales, se encuentra en esta encrucijada peligrosa sin ninguna política, bien hacia nuestros enemigos, bien hacia los países del mundo libre.
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13/04/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The long road to victory
The common wisdom in Washington these days is that the Americans will leave Iraq by the end of President George W. Bush's presidency regardless of the situation on the ground. This view is based on the proposition that Iraq is unwinnable. It has had a devastating impact on the administration's confidence that it can handle Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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13/04/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The long road to victory
The common wisdom in Washington these days is that the Americans will leave Iraq by the end of President George W. Bush's presidency regardless of the situation on the ground. This view is based on the proposition that Iraq is unwinnable. It has had a devastating impact on the administration's confidence that it can handle Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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03/04/2007 | Sociedad
Cómo colapsa una civilización
Una línea clara conecta a los estudiantes de Cambridge, los americanos en Irak, y la situación en Israel. El frente islamista-izquierdista está erosionando la idea de justicia del mundo libre. En lugar de defender nuestros valores liberales y democráticos y defender nuestras libertades, temiendo la condena de la izquierda, políticos y líderes de opinión se han permitido hacerse fieles de ideologías que niegan todo aquello que defiende el mundo libre.
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22/03/2007 | Frente Externo
Your money and your life
Anxiety and anticipation swirled through the air in the days preceding Saturday's swearing-in ceremony for the new Hamas-Fatah terror government in the Palestinian Authority.
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17/03/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
As Syria prepares for war
This has been a banner week for Syrian diplomacy. First, together with their big Iranian brothers, the Syrians were given a place at the table alongside US officials at the conference on Iraqi security in Baghdad last weekend.
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28/02/2007 | Frente Externo
La administración ha elegido simular que ha tenido éxito fracasando
Es imposible aventurar las consecuencias del inminente enfrentamiento entre Estados Unidos e Irán. Pero si los sucesos de la semana pasada son de alguna utilidad, el futuro no parece prometedor.
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25/01/2007 | Frente Externo
Our World: The Rule of Lawyers
Israel prides itself on being the only democracy in the Middle East. But if we are not careful, we will lose that distinction. Today Israel finds itself increasingly under the rule not of law, but of lawyers.
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25/01/2007 | Frente Externo
Our World: The Rule of Lawyers
Israel prides itself on being the only democracy in the Middle East. But if we are not careful, we will lose that distinction. Today Israel finds itself increasingly under the rule not of law, but of lawyers.
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10/01/2007 | Transparencia
The bitter fruits of corruption
With the Israeli media scope-locked on bigger stories, the fact that Thursday Prime Minister Ehud Olmert paid an obsequious and shameful visit to a country which propagates Holocaust denial and sponsors the Palestinian jihad went largely unnoticed.
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10/01/2007 | Transparencia
The bitter fruits of corruption
With the Israeli media scope-locked on bigger stories, the fact that Thursday Prime Minister Ehud Olmert paid an obsequious and shameful visit to a country which propagates Holocaust denial and sponsors the Palestinian jihad went largely unnoticed.
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30/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The new Zionist occupiers
The diplomatic campaign against Iran has failed. After three years of sterile diplomacy, last Saturday the UN Security Council passed impotent sanctions against Iran. Iran greeted the sanctions by announcing its intention to expand its uranium enrichment activities by running an additional 3,000 centrifuges at its nuclear installation in Natanz.
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30/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The new Zionist occupiers
The diplomatic campaign against Iran has failed. After three years of sterile diplomacy, last Saturday the UN Security Council passed impotent sanctions against Iran. Iran greeted the sanctions by announcing its intention to expand its uranium enrichment activities by running an additional 3,000 centrifuges at its nuclear installation in Natanz.
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22/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Privatizing the war of ideas
The domestic and international debate about the Palestinians has become thoroughly detached from reality. On the one hand there are the friendlies. These include the Olmert government, the Israeli media, the Bush administration and some European governments.
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22/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Privatizing the war of ideas
The domestic and international debate about the Palestinians has become thoroughly detached from reality. On the one hand there are the friendlies. These include the Olmert government, the Israeli media, the Bush administration and some European governments.
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17/12/2006 | Frente Externo
Why deny the Holocaust?
There is something terribly confusing about Iran's penchant for denying the Holocaust. Given Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stated desire to see Israel wiped off the map, it would seem more reasonable for Iran to be celebrating the Holocaust than denying it.
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17/12/2006 | Frente Externo
Why deny the Holocaust?
There is something terribly confusing about Iran's penchant for denying the Holocaust. Given Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stated desire to see Israel wiped off the map, it would seem more reasonable for Iran to be celebrating the Holocaust than denying it.
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06/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Olmert's Saudi friends
The world has gone mad. As Lebanon teeters on the brink of Iranian and Syrian instigated collapse, senior American and British political officials urge President George W. Bush to hand Iraq over to Iran and Syria.
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06/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Olmert's Saudi friends
The world has gone mad. As Lebanon teeters on the brink of Iranian and Syrian instigated collapse, senior American and British political officials urge President George W. Bush to hand Iraq over to Iran and Syria.
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07/11/2006 | Frente Externo
Truth in advertising
Israel is trying to reinvent itself. Last week Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni hosted a conference where she launched a new multimillion dollar project to "rebrand" Israel. As Livni put it, since coming into office, she has been struck by the disparity between the vibrant, liberal, free Israel she knows and Israel's image abroad.
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24/10/2006 | En Parrilla
La peligrosa repetición de la historia
Como consecuencia de la prueba de la bomba atómica de Corea del Norte, Estados Unidos puede apoyar acciones militares por parte de Japón y Corea del Sur contra Corea del Norte; levantar su escudo de misiles; y quizá poner fin a su moratoria autoimpuesta de 14 años de duración sobre las pruebas nucleares, y así remodelar su arsenal nuclear.
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18/10/2006 | En Profundidad
Our World: The debasement of law
In Acre this past weekend, what was supposed to be a joyous celebration of Simchat Torah degenerated into a near pogrom when for two nights an Arab mob physically attacked Jewish worshipers with crowbars, rocks and firecrackers, and verbally assaulted them with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slurs.
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29/08/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Terrorist theater tricks
What are we seeing when we watch events from the Middle East on our television screens? Is it news or is it terrorist theater?
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02/08/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ver la guerra tal como se revela
LA PRESENTE campaña en el norte de Israel y el Líbano ha expuesto a la atención pública las principales patologías y fuerzas de Occidente a la hora de luchar contra el eje jihadista liderado por Irán.
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07/07/2006 | Frente Externo
Olmert no se da cuenta
Desde que reemplazara a Ariel Sharon en el cargo el pasado diciembre, el Primer Ministro Ehud Olmert ha rechazado autorizar una incursión a gran escala de ejército en la franja de Gaza.
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21/06/2006 | Frente Externo
Afrontar a nuestros líderes derrotistas
El domingo, el Ministro de Exteriores palestino de Hamas, Mahmoud Zahar, se encontraba en una reunión en Teherán con su jefe, el Presidente iraní Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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21/06/2006 | Frente Externo
Afrontar a nuestros líderes derrotistas
El domingo, el Ministro de Exteriores palestino de Hamas, Mahmoud Zahar, se encontraba en una reunión en Teherán con su jefe, el Presidente iraní Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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15/05/2006 | En Parrilla
Cuando Olmert vaya a Washington
La retirada planeada de Olmert supone un dilema para Washington. Por una parte, Estados Unidos ha apoyado tradicionalmente las retiradas israelíes de los territorios que Israel capturó durante la Guerra de los Seis Días, y el plan de Olmert se alinea con esta preferencia costumbrista.
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28/03/2006 | Frente Externo
El desinformado electorado de Israel
El espectro político de Israel se divide entre la izquierda, representada por el Kadima, y la derecha, representada por el Likud. El Kadima quiere tratar la amenaza de Hamas montando un numerito público de censurar a Hamas al tiempo que rinde Judea y Samaria a la organización terrorista.
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24/01/2006 | En Parrilla
Abuso de la ley para perseguir a los colonos
La decisión de galardonar el filme palestino Paradise Now con el Premio Golden Globe como mejor película extranjera nos dice que el terrorismo palestino contra los israelíes se ha vuelto tan aceptable que es ahora un kitsch de Hollywood
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21/01/2006 | Frente Externo
A question for President Bush
As Israel's election season moves into high gear, one key question now emerging is how much is the Bush administration planning to impose itself and its preferences on the Israeli electorate? There are three sides to the question's increasing centrality.
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09/01/2006 | Frente Externo
Israel after Sharon
Last Wednesday night ushered in a new era in Israel's political history. As Israelis watch and worry as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dangles between life and death, one thing is absolutely clear. Sharon's massive cerebral hemorrhage on Wednesday night spelled the end of his political career.
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19/12/2005 | En Parrilla
Privatizar la política exterior
John Bolton, el embajador de América ante Naciones Unidas, muy bien podría ser el mayor amigo de Israel en el gobierno americano. El domingo pasado, en una brillante estancia de un hotel de Nueva York, Bolton daba el discurso central de la cena anual de la Organización Sionista de América.
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11/12/2005 | Frente Externo
El precio de la incompetencia
El presidente iraní Mahmoud Ahmadinejad es un santo varón autoproclamado. En un vídeo difundido en una página web iraní vinculada a la Guardia Revolucionaria (y del que se informa en la web Regime change in Iran), Ahmadinejad relataba que durante su discurso en la Asamblea General este otoño, “sintió una luz” que le rodeaba y le protegía.
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21/11/2005 | Frente Externo
Un mundo que se ha vuelto loco
Se diría que el mundo se ha vuelto loco. La seguridad de Israel está siendo minada sistemáticamente por su propio gobierno y por la comunidad internacional liderada por Estados Unidos. En el presente, parece que el gobierno Sharon-Peres está metido en una perversa competición con la administración Bush por determinar quién puede presentar la política contraterrorista más alocada.
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13/11/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
La caída de París
Los franceses están en problemas serios. Tienen una insurrección de cosecha propia en sus manos. En cierto modo - en la intensidad de la violencia principalmente - la presente insurrección recuerda a la insurrección estudiantil de 1968.
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27/09/2005 | En Profundidad
Our World: The death of memory
There is not a single political leader in Israel who will not uphold the country's identity as the Jewish state. But what does that mean? Does the fact that Israel is the Jewish state mean that it has a unique mission in the world that distinguishes it from every other state?
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27/09/2005 | En Parrilla
Hamas, Fatah y la Yihad se refuerzan en Oriente Medio
"Los partidarios de la retirada de Israel también argumentaban que al abandonar Gaza, Israel reduciría sus líneas defensivas. Esto también ha terminado siendo incorrecto. Ahora, el lugar de asegurar la frontera de 240 kilómetros, con Egipto controlando Gaza, Israel tiene que controlar toda la frontera directamente mientras al mismo tiempo su propia frontera con Gaza continúa abierta".
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11/09/2005 | Frente Externo
Israel debe acercarse a Pakistán pero con reservas
"Pakistán no ejerce ningún control soberano efectivo sobre grandes espacios de su territorio. Los arrestos de alto nivel y las rendiciones de terroristas del mando de al-Qaida, como el cerebro de los atentados del 11 de Septiembre Khalid Sheikh Mohammed y los asaltos contra provincias recorridas por el terror, parecen tener lugar, como observa Timothy Hoyt, en momentos muy convenientes para las relaciones Estados Unidos-Pakistán".
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23/08/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Balance del accionar israelí en Gaza
"Durante las últimas semanas, hemos sido testigos de un fenómeno notable. De pronto, inmediatamente después de los atentados suicida del mes pasado en Londres, escuchamos informativos de noticias desde París a Londres pasando por Nueva York en los que los analistas del terrorismo anuncian ferozmente que sus países tienen que seguir los pasos de Israel al hacer todo lo que puedan para hacer frente a los terroristas suicida".
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31/07/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Egipto: Otra lectura de los atentados de Sharm e-Sheikh
"Después de los atentados del pasado octubre, el gobierno egipcio, cuya precaria economía es dependiente en gran medida del turismo, no tomó acción ninguna contra la célula del terror de al-Qaida responsable de esos ataques. Tampoco tomó ninguna medida eficaz para proteger sus fácilmente defendibles enclaves turísticos. En su lugar, sitió a alrededor de 100 beduinos, cuyos vínculos con los atentados nunca llegaron a estar claros".
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25/07/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Los terroristas democráticos de América
El Primer Ministro iraquí, Ibrahim Jaafari, acompañado por una docena de ministros del gabinete iraquí, coronó ayer una visita oficial de tres días de duración a la República Islámica de Irán. Mientras estuvo allí, Jaafari se reunió con el archi-dictador iraní, el ayatolá Alí Jamenei, el presidente saliente Mohammed Jatami y con el presidente electo, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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18/07/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Our World: America's democratic terrorists
Yesterday Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, accompanied by a dozen Iraqi cabinet ministers, rounded off a three-day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. While there, Jaafari met with Iranian arch-dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, outgoing president Mohammad Khatami and president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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26/06/2005 | Frente Externo
El irreemplazable aliado de América
En un artículo exhaustivo titulado “Cómo lucharíamos contra China” publicado en el número de junio del Atlantic Monthly, el corresponsal militar Robert D. Kaplan analiza el inquietante espectro de una guerra fría entre Estados Unidos y China.
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08/06/2005 | Frente Externo
¿Abandona América la lucha?
Se informa de que Bush dijo a Abbás que si capturan a los terroristas, Estados Unidos forzará a Israel a arrancar todas las comunidades israelíes de Judea y Samaria inmediatamente después de que Israel expulse a 10.000 de sus ciudadanos de sus casas de Gaza y el norte de Samaria este verano.
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24/05/2005 | Frente Externo
El problema palestino
¿Cómo será capaz el presidente de continuar ignorando la permeabilidad del terror en la OLP ahora que Hamas y la Jihad Islámica son miembros de la organización abierta y oficialmente?. ¿Cómo será capaz el presidente de reunirse con Abbás o hacer que sus representantes se reúnan con funcionarios de la AP, cuando la propia AP, después de las elecciones legislativas de julio, estará completamente ocupada por terroristas de Hamas y la Jihad Islámica haciéndose pasar por legisladores y burócratas?.
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15/05/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Despierta Washington!
Mientras que Bush y sus partidarios fueron rápidos en ver el ruinoso impacto del apaciguamiento español de los terroristas en los esfuerzos de la guerra, al respaldar el plan de Sharon e inundar a los palestinos de dinero y apoyo, el Presidente está mostrando que en lo que respecta a Israel, la política que él ha adoptado es la misma por la que optaron los votantes españoles: el apaciguamiento
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19/04/2005 | Dossier Juan Pablo II
La mitología de Oriente Medio
Que el rechazo a Israel forma aún una base sólida de la unidad árabe e islámica quedó claro una vez más en una conferencia de Malasia de la semana pasada, dedicada a “la paz en Palestina”. La conferencia se dio un impulso psicológico invitando a cinco israelíes antiisraelíes y a cinco activistas judíos a participar en los prolegómenos
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19/04/2005 | Dossier Juan Pablo II
La mitología de Oriente Medio
Que el rechazo a Israel forma aún una base sólida de la unidad árabe e islámica quedó claro una vez más en una conferencia de Malasia de la semana pasada, dedicada a “la paz en Palestina”. La conferencia se dio un impulso psicológico invitando a cinco israelíes antiisraelíes y a cinco activistas judíos a participar en los prolegómenos
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06/04/2005 | Frente Externo
Sharon y la doctrina Bush
Hoy la administración Bush, junto con el gobierno Sharon-Peres, impulsa la visión de que la retirada de Sharon y el plan de expulsión de Gaza y el norte de Samaria se alinean con la doctrina Bush.
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06/04/2005 | Frente Externo
Sharon y la doctrina Bush
Hoy la administración Bush, junto con el gobierno Sharon-Peres, impulsa la visión de que la retirada de Sharon y el plan de expulsión de Gaza y el norte de Samaria se alinean con la doctrina Bush.
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