Israel Resource Review

By: David Bedein 

When you undergo a traumatic experience, especially at a young age, you remember details of that experience for the rest of your life. And so it was for so many on the day of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on that fateful Friday – November 22, 1963. I was an eighth grader at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania. The day before, we had discussed in our current events club about how JFK and David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s recently resigned prime minister, had a…

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Satellite photography of the site near Latakia reveals that advanced S-125 antiaircraft missile batteries were objective of the strike that occurred 10 days ago, attributed by foreign publications to Israel
By: Ronen Solomon and Amir Rapaport 

Satellite photography taken of the site near Latakia in Syria, which foreign publications claim was the site of an Israeli attack nearly 10 days ago, prove that the targets of the attack were advanced S-125 antiaircraft missile launchers. The launchers were in the process of undergoing upgrades, which made them a substantial threat as far as the Israeli Air Force was concerned. The satellite photos were taken on the actual day of the attack merely several hours before the missile…

Israel and the United States share the strategic goal of preventing Iran’s attainment of nuclear weapons. Both countries agree that only two forms of leverage can block Iran’s dash to the bomb: economic sanctions and a credible military threat. Howev
By: Amos Yadlin 

The dispute between Israel and the United States on the Iranian nuclear challenge emerged this week from behind closed doors and became an open conflict waged on television. Israel and the United States share the strategic goal of preventing Iran’s attainment of nuclear weapons. Both countries agree that only two forms of leverage can block Iran’s dash to the bomb:economic sanctions and a credible military threat. However, Israel and the US diverge in their assessments as to…

Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel, Members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, thank you for inviting me to testify today on this important topic. – See more at: defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/examining-nucle
By: Mark Dubowitz

After Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s first 100 days in office, the Islamic Republic is still repressing its own citizens, and contributing to the slaughter of Syrian civilians. While Rouhani has achieved only one of his 46 explicit campaign promises, the reopening of Iran’s House of Cinema (Khaneh Cinema), he may yet deliver on his most important promise: Economic relief from sanctions without offering the West meaningful nuclear concessions. But for the 11th hour French…

By: Alan Baker

Dear Secretary of State Kerry, After listening to you declare repeatedly over the past weeks that „Israel’s settlements are illegitimate,” I respectfully wish to state, unequivocally, that you are mistaken and ill-advised, both in law and in fact. Pursuant to the Oslo Accords, and specifically the Israel-Palestinian Interim Agreement (1995), the „issue of settlements” is one of subjects to be negotiated in the permanent-status negotiations. President Bill Clinton on…

By: Dore Gold

Vol. 13, No. 30 12 November 2013Eliminating Iran’s 20-percent-enriched uranium, but allowing the Iranians to continue to produce 3.5-percent-enriched uranium is an unacceptable option if the goal of the West is to prevent Iran from advancing a nuclear weapon. Allowing Iran to enrich to the 3.5-percent level will not address the threat emanating from Iran’s latest generation of faster centrifuges and the scenario of a fast dash by Iran to weapons-grade uranium, known as…

The administration of President Barack Obama has rejected Israel’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear capabilities and readiness to reduce its program. Officials said the U.S. intelligence community has dismissed Israel’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear program amid P5+1 negotiations with Teheran. They said the Israeli assessment of an imminent weapons-capable Iran was exaggerated and alarmist. „Some of the reporting on this has been frankly misleading,” National Security Adviser Susan…