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Yossi Alpher

Yossi Alpher is co-editor of the bitterlemons family of internet publications. He is former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and a former senior adviser to Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak.

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Kosovo and Palestine

Kosovo’s unfinished business has lessons for the Palestinians’ national struggle too, says Yossi Alpher.

Gaza’s agency, Israel’s choice

Palestinian popular power on the Gaza-Egypt border faces Israel with strategic problems that may end in a new invasion, says Yossi Alpher.

Israel-West Bank-Gaza: the future

Hamas’s victory in Gaza has drawn new political lines of division across the region. What now? Yossi Alpher considers two options.

Israel: you can’t reverse time

It has taken forty years for Israelis to realise that the damage to them of occupation far outweighs any benefits, says Yossi Alpher.