Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Yossi Alpher is a former Mossad official and former director of the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Until recently he co-edited bitterlemons.net. He is the author of No End of Conflict: Rethinking Israel-Palestine (forthcoming April 2016, Rowman & Littlefield, USA).
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia"Economic peace" for Palestine?By all means, give the Palestinians development aid. But let us not delude ourselves that this will facilitate a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Israeli public and the Gaza war: supporting the armed effort, doubting the strategic outcomeAnti-Semitic acts in Europe reinforced the perception that the issue was extremist hatred of Jews per se. At the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Ukraine/Crimea crisis: ramifications for the Middle EastIn the short term the Ukraine/Crimea crisis adds momentum to Russia’s drive to reassert its superpower presence and...
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Published in: openSecurityThe return of the Arab Peace InitiativeIt would be comforting to believe that a revitalised API could provide sufficient incentive for a successful peace...
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Published in: HomeBitterlemons, the next stage
An innovative Israeli-Palestinian collaboration offering regular analysis of middle-east affairs is ending regular...
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Published in: HomeIsrael's new government: a blank peace page
The surprise formation of a new governing coalition is bad news for Israeli-Palestinian peace - unless another...