Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

Please take a look at this excellent post by Ehsani for Josh Landis's Syria Comment on the economic reforms in Syria. The process descr...

BY AMOS One day Lieberman "cannot see Syria as a real partner for any kind of settlement" (see previous post ), and the next he is...

Hamas  agrees  to allow Fatah forces to patrol Rafah crossing (Ha'aretz): The London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported Saturday that Hamas ...

The bizarre diplomatic spat sparked by Olmert's annoucement that he had intervened with Bush personally to overrule Rice should not be b...

According to reports in the Israeli media, Hamas is close to agreeing to a cease fire that might meet some of Israel's conditions. A sta...

Some very brief, related and unrelated thoughts on the news from today about peace talks with Syria. 1. Contrary to the claims of Shelly Yac...

As our commenters have observed, the Israelis have been surprisingly disciplined so far in maintaining silence on the air force raid in Syri...

I am fairly confident that the recent incident on the Turkish-Syrian border, where Syria alleges it repulsed an Israeli fighter jet from its...

Battle of the Golan Heights, 1967 (Map Source: Wikipedia ) Uri Bar-Yosef is concerned about the lack of interest in negotiations with the S...

Antidote to the post that follows below: Shlomi Saranga and Moshik Afia, "Sweet Dream" (2002) I have not seen a great deal of disc...

(Photo source: al-Jazeera ) I'm sure the special effort MK Muhammad Barakeh (Hadash) made to show his disgust for the democratic opposi...

Sunset in the north (January 2006) One of the obstacles to negotiations with Syria frequently cited by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is...

Golan Heights, January 2007 (Photo: N ) By now, the denunciations of the report in Ha'aretz that Israelis and Syrians engaged in sec...

There is a fascinating article in Ha'aretz by Danny Rubinstein, based primarily on reports from Martin Schellenberg, a young German his...

Barry Rubin has an interesting piece on "the new era" in the Middle East, which he sees, perhaps in line with Marx's famous ...

Just saw Lebanese PM Siniora on CSPAN. A lot of waffling. Obviously he couldn't really say anything substantive about questions like Ira...