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State of Israel Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, pictured during a defense meeting held at the Pentagon in Washington, District of Columbia (DC).

Is Sharon Following in the Steps of Nixon and de Klerk?

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the arch-conservative … apparent transformation. Sharon is working toward complete Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, including the removal of Israeli settlers. For most observers of the crisis in the …
tanks and soldier fighting in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The World’s Longest War

… Everybody recognizes by now that the Arab-Israeli conflict is a singularly intractable one. The current struggle between Israel and Hezbollah is the sixth episode in a 58-year-long war between Israel and its Arab neighbors that commenced in 1948 when …
Alfonso García Robles at the Public Hearing on Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament in 1981.

A Model for a Nuclear-Free Middle East

… dangers of nuclear weaponry still exist in the Middle East. Israel has nuclear weapons, and its rival Iran is suspected … nations may resort to nuclear weapons as a response to Israel's and Iran's possession of them. The Middle East can … nations, the volatile Middle East is a ticking time bomb. Israel's nuclear weapons add incentive for other nations in …
Israeli troops during the battle for the Sinai

The Suez Crisis (1956)

… by the intersection of European decolonization , the Arab-Israeli conflict , the Cold War, and the growth of U.S. … fruitless, and Anglo-French preparations for war continued. Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir, right, meets with Israeli Ambassadors Y. Avidar (Moscow), Y, Tsur (Paris), …
Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder: the pope depicted as the Antichrist, using his temporal power to grant authority to a generously contributing ruler.

The Bible as a Political Tool

… in America who felt a keen affinity with the Children of Israel. Puritans called their new land “Canaan” and built … Massachusetts Bay colony, “we shall find that the God of Israel is among us.”   The Puritans firmly set their stamp … and the other revolutionary leaders called themselves “Israelites” who were throwing off the yoke of the “Pharaoh” …
John F. Kennedy and Dr. Alvin Weinburg at the Graphite Reactor Oak Ridge National Lab in 1959.

The Dangers – Then and Now – of a Pre-Emptive Strike

… form another “coalition of the willing” by teaming up with Israel in a joint attack on Iran. Kennedy’s failure to grasp … in Washington or Tel Aviv, about a joint strike, but Israel today, unlike Russia in 1963, seems a willing partner. Israel, which bombed an Iraqi nuclear plant in 1981 to …
Cover of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe by Jeff Sheehan.

How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen

Review of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe, by Jeff Sheehan (Illustrated. 284 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company)
… this difference in thinking about terrorism also applies to Israel and its differences with the European community. If anything Israel, particularly the Israeli right, is even more entrenched in the language of …

The Question of Refugees: Past and Present

… refugees in 1948 following the creation of the state of Israel. In the Far East as many as 90 million were … Palestinian refugees forced to flee after the creation of Israel in 1948 and the ensuing war ( bottom ). We will never … such as Jordan and Lebanon that bordered the new state of Israel. Other refugees—the numerous refugees in Pakistan and …
American nuclear missile from the early Cold War in its original launch silo.

A Basis for Hope in the Middle East

… today, the growing missile capability of Iran, Syria, and Israel is causing alarm. As it was during the Cold War, arms … the 1990s, a group of Middle Eastern nations, including Israel, agreed to notify each other in advance of military … because talks broke down owing to the controversy over Israel’s own nuclear capability. These talks should resume …
Chinese nuclear bomb on display in China.

A Danger Shared by All

… India and Pakistan. North Korea. Possibly Israel. And now Iran. There is no doubt the Bush … Pakistan are border rivals armed with nuclear weapons and Israel is believed to possess its own nuclear stockpile. …
Photo of the World Trade Towers after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

The End of a “Safe America”

… of the antagonism toward America today grows out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We would not be giving in to … broker,” as we often describe ourselves. We guarantee that Israel will not be overpowered; we help arm it; we send it … acts will not change American policy toward Palestine and Israel. That can only be done in the United States, …
Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

… of the region are now Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. And starting with Turkey, I would say Turkey's power … played a buffer zone between the Middle East and Europe and Israel has been accepted and promoted not only by West, but … to understand Egypt's location. And lastly, of course, Israel is an unusual, I will say regional power, because of …
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.

Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

… one mentioned in the Biblical account of the wall that the Israelites destroyed using the Ark of the Covenant (Book of … was put to the sword save for the family who harbored Israeli spies during the siege. 2. Athenian “Long Walls” … Armistice Agreement Line (or the Green Line) that separates Israel from the territories of the West Bank. This barrier …

Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea

… United Nations Security Council, and India , Pakistan , and Israel —is denied the DPRK; nor about why the United States, … not be far behind, followed by Pakistan, Indonesia, Taiwan, Israel, and Egypt. In time, even European states like West … Cartoon, © The Herb Block Foundation  ( right ). While Israel had surreptitiously acquired a basic nuclear …
A Jewish menorah, which is used during Hanukkah.

How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas

… Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second century B.C. against their … observance of Hanukkah follows in the tradition of the Israelites who spurned the pressures to adopt the ways of …
Judas kissing Jesus

The Gospel of Judas: The Rediscovery of the Earliest Gnostic Gospel

… In other words, the God of the Old Testament, the God of Israel, the God worshiped by Jews and most Christians is not … the New Testament identify Jesus as the Son of the God of Israel, the Creator God of the Old Testament. The Gospel of … fact, an error, a laughable mistake, to worship the God of Israel as the Father of Jesus. This brings us to the …
October 23, 1983, a massive explosion ripped through the barracks of the battalion landing team (BLT) of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit at the Beirut International Airport.

Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks on Peacekeepers in Lebanon

… Lebanon in 1976, ostensibly to stabilize the civil war; Israeli invaded in June 1982, in order to finally dislodge … amongst the Palestinian refugee population. Following the Israeli incursion, the multinational peacekeepers were … of Maronite Amin Gemayel, largely because Gemayel won Israel’s support by opposing the Palestinians. Rather than …

Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping

… from 1956 to 1967. Trial in the Sinai On October 29, 1956, Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt and quickly … the pretense of protecting the Suez shipping lane from Israeli-Egyptian fighting, British and French paratroopers … landed in the canal zone within a few days of the Israeli invasion. With three foreign forces deployed on its …
a couple on their wedding day

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… to a wide range of audiences across the US, Canada, Israel and Europe. She lives in Bexley, Ohio, with her … of 1948. And so they eventually will leave the state of Israel and go to Canada, which is where they settle. For … And then which, after the creation of the State of Israel, they come to Canada, they do settle in a first …