Today’s newspapers are all buzzing with one news: Russia has stated that sanctions against Iran are unlikely. Newspapers, like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov on Thursday as saying Moscow wouldn’t back any new rounds of tough sanctions against Iran in the United Nations Security […]
Dubai’s metro rail opened (grandly – how else) today. Construction on the system will continue, but as of today residents and tourists can take the train along Sheikh Zayed road. Yale graduate student Tabitha Decker points out, rightly, that the metro’s significance as evidence of investment in public goods represents a slightly different Dubai than […]
Visit http://www.brookings.edu/lang/arabic.aspx to read Brookings’ content in translation. Very exciting.
Former Israeli Diplomat Alon Pinkas supported the idea of Palestinian state-building from the “ground up” but rejected as unfeasible a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood, he said in an interview with Middle East Progress. Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad recently expressed the need for Palestinians to develop preliminary institutions needed for a future independent state, including […]
A new INSS report outlines recent changes in the motives of Israeli Arabs who assist terrorist organizations. In the past, many of these Israeli-Arab spies were motivated by promises of money and/or drugs. However, the recent arrest of Rawi Sultani indicates a shift from monetary to nationalistic motives. While attending a camp run in Morocco […]
The Arctic Sea, officially carrying a cargo of timber worth $2m, disappeared en route from Finland to Algeria on July 24. The vessel vanished into thin air after sailing through the English Channel, a curious case that engaged the attention of Finnish police, Swedish investigators, Interpol, and the Russian Navy. Before people could really jump […]
A while ago I wrote a blog on how Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, one of the world’s most prominent game theorists, applied game theory to predict that Iran will never acquire nuclear weapons. Here is a presentation he made about his findings: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ts5MKtXNpMQ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
He didn’t go to the Gulf or any other Arab nation…. maybe. Reports surfaced yesterday of an alleged secret trip by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to an Arab country without direct ties to Israel. The reports indicated that Netanyahu attempted to forge a strategic partnership with an Arab country in order to thwart Iranian […]
The opposition government has rejected the cabinet lineup proposed by Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri. Hariri presented his selections to President Suleiman, but it is probable that the president will not endorse it on the grounds that it does not have bipartisan support. The crux of the dispute (between the Hariri-led March 14 coalition and the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu generally spends his time in Jerusalem running the government. He occasionally takes trips abroad to discuss the peace process or the Iranian threat with allied governments, such as the recent visit to the United States. Today, the Prime Minister’s Office’s official schedule placed on him on a tour of a […]
As school starts in the United States, American schools are faced with the dilemma of whether they should force kids to listen to Obama’s liberal elitist agenda, which encourages kids to “show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to (…) parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work […]
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