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H1 INSS The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007-2008
Ten essays on Israel's current strategic environment (single page linking to each essay or Complete Text)

What Obama Should Say on Iraq - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

New York Times Inside a 9/11 Mastermind’s Interrogation The story of an analyst who interrogated Khalid Shaikh Mohammed without harsh tactics offers the closest look to date at the C.I.A.’s interrogation program.

Editorial Europe Fears Obama Might Undercut Progress With Iran

Agreements Are Elusive at Oil Talks in Saudi Arabia The Saudis pledged to make only a slight increase in oil production, and the summit made plain how few options are available to push prices down from record levels

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Mr. Bush, Lead or Leave It is hard to find the words to express what a fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy President Bush’s new plan is.

The State of Iraq: An Update By JASON CAMPBELL, MICHAEL O’HANLON and AMY UNIKEWICZ There is reason to hope that the major improvement in security resulting from the surge of American forces may endure even as the surge itself ends this July.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF The Two Israels Even if the Jewish settlement in Hebron, in the West Bank, were not illegal in the eyes of much of the world, the financial and diplomatic costs are mind-boggling.

The New Pariahs? By NOAH FELDMAN Sixty years after the Holocaust, Europe still may not have learned to accept outsiders.

Israel in the Season of Dread Outsiders see a truce and feel hope. But a skeptical country senses failure and is angry.

FRANK RICHNow That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home

Battle Shapes Up Over Future of US Role in Iraq

Independent on Sunday Special report: Is Al Qa'ida in pieces?

CFR Dealing with

Damascus - Seeking a Greater Return on U.S.-Syria Relations

Gulf nations to earn $1.3 trillion from oil in two years: report

INSS New INSS Policy Brief: Arbitration on the Syrian Border Aluf Benn (June 19, 2008) argues that the border dispute between Syria and Israel, which has long plagued any negotiations between the two states, is an excellent candidate for international arbitration

Los Angeles Times What's behind the dollar's decline in value? Some say it's epochal, others merely cyclical. But part of it boils down to supply and demand: The world is awash in dollars these days

Iran accuses U.S. of backing Sunni Muslim rebels

Iran accused the United States on today of supporting a Sunni Muslim rebel group which said on Friday it had killed two of 16 Iranian policemen kidnapped last week in a volatile area near the border with Pakistan

The float vote The bloc that will ultimately decide who will win the White House wants one thing — results.

Ha’aretz – Yossi Melman: Israel is a long way from attacking Iran

Editorial Parisian option To assume the complex role that it has sought for itself in the Middle East, France will be required to stake out a position rooted in principle, moral legitimacy and strategic clarity

Bar’el Peace crept up as Israel was looking the other way Six years after the signing of the Arab initiative in Beirut, Israel still believes in cease-fires more than in better relations

WINEP How to Think about Preventative Military Action against Iran Listen online as Patrick Clawson and Michael Eisenstadt correct common misperceptions about potential military action against Iran's nuclear program, from metrics of success and Tehran's retaliatory track record to the nonmilitary steps required to to make a strategy of prevention truly sustainable

Bolton: Israel Will Attack Iran After U.S. Election But Before Inauguration, Arab States Will Be ‘Delighted’

Kristol: Bush Might Bomb Iran If He 'Thinks Senator Obama's Going To Win'

The Lessons Obama Should Learn from Kennedy Before Talking to Iran by Michael Oren

Washington Post Toehold in Tehran? By Fred Hiatt, The Bush administration considers a bold step.

Life in Putin's Russia By Julia Latynina, The right to commit crimes has become part of official privilege

THE SCREW-UP FACTOR Cool Crisis Management? It's a Myth. Ask JFK. By Michael Dobbs The Cuban missile crisis is an illustration of the ever-present screw-up factor in world affairs.

3 in 10 Americans Admit to Race Bias Survey Shows Age, Too, May Affect Election Views

Europe Fears Obama Might Undercut Progress With Iran

Editorial The Saudi Spigot Riyadh is about to open the oil tap wider, but what happens when it's tapped out?

Sunday Telegraph History's verdict on George W Bush

Once the decades have put the events of the war in Iraq into their proper context, four great facts will emerge that will place Bush in a far better light than he currently enjoys, predicts Andrew Roberts

OPEC talks: Saudis to boost oil output Saudi Arabia has responded to appeals from Gordon Brown and other western leaders to bring down soaring oil prices by promising to extend a production increase

Wall Street Journal Israel on the Iran Brink The West's failed diplomacy has brought us to this point.

Anti-Americanism Is Mostly Hype By Fouad Ajami Don't believe everything that foreigners tell pollsters.

The Observer Brits 'doubt' cause of climate change A majority of the public is still not convinced climate change is caused by humans, says new survey

Pakistan troops 'aid Taliban' New US documents reveal that mass infiltration by Afghan insurgents is helping latest offensive

IHT Three strikes and we're out

By ANATOL LIEVEN AND ALEXIS ROWELL The present oil shock provides the answer to the problem posed to our civilization by climate change - if our leaders have the courage to use it.

Italy struggles with immigration and aging Italy is worried about the role of immigrants in crime, and the far right has proposed a law that would make it a felony to come to Italy illegally. But many Italian families rely on immigrants, often illegal ones, to care for their elderly loved ones

A 'very difficult' time for the Social Democrats in Germany With the Social Democrats' poll numbers continuing to plummet, the party's leader, Kurt Beck, is coming under increasing pressure to quit his post and pass it on to Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

McClatchy Haditha victims' kin outraged as Marines go free

Khadija Hassan still shrouds her body in black, nearly three years after the deaths of her four sons. They were killed on Nov. 19, 2005, along with 20 other people in the deadliest documented case of U.S. troops killing civilians since the Vietnam War. Eight Marines were charged in the case, but in the intervening years, criminal charges have been dismissed against six. A seventh Marine was acquitted. The residents of Haditha, after being told they could depend on U.S. justice, feel betrayed

Sunday Times Stop killing the Taliban What is sure is that Al-Qaeda will not be suppressed without Taliban cooperation Simon Jenkins

Prepare for change as world tilts to the east - e Richer Chinese and Indians competing for resources will mean a gradual decline in western living standards

Christian Science Monitor

U.S., Iraqi forces meet no Sadr resistance in Amara Iraqi troops took the southern city without a shot being fired from Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army

Saudi Arabia to boost oil output. Will gas prices fall? At a rare meeting Sunday, some oil-producing nations tried to stabilize prices – and Western concerns over a recession.

A legal case against the OPEC cartel Decades of putting up with OPEC have not reduced oil prices

Obama as a grass-roots president?

It's far from clear that he could run the country the way he's running his campaign

Guardian A nation as yet unbuilt Peter Preston: Afghanistan has never been a successful state. Our involvement there is based on a delusion

Occupations abroad always lead to the erosion of liberties at home

Gary Younge: Guantánamo has exposed the Bush regime's disdain for human rights. But there's nothing uniquely American about this

Moving beyond Afghanistan in NATO burden-sharing By Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

RFERL In Hot Pursuit The Afghan president has said his country has the legal right to chase Taliban militants who flee into Pakistan after carrying out attacks on Afghan territory. But is he right? RFE/RL asks the experts

RFE/RL Armenia 'Shall Overcome' In an exclusive commentary, President Serzh Sarkisian acknowledges that Armenia is a country in transition, but says Yerevan is working hard to deepen reforms and strengthen democratic institutions

Tom Barnett Scripps Howard. Europe's take on America's next president

WINEP Domestic and Regional Politics Delay U.S.-Iraqi Security Agreement

“Let them have a good dose where it will hurt them most,” said Churchill. “The Germans should be made to suffer in their own homelands and cities”... more»

Stopping Google With one company now the world's chief gateway to information, some critics are hatching ways to fight its influence. (By Drake Bennett, Boston Globe)

'The Political Mind' By GEORGE LAKOFF Reviewed by WILLIAM SALETAN In his latest book, George Lakoff uses neuroscience to explain how the political right wins and keeps power.

If globalization and democracy can’t be reconciled, says Benjamin Barber, the entire world will start looking look more and more like Darfur or Gaza on a bad day... more»

The Gov't Can Nudge Without Requiring - George Will, Newsweek

H 2 NYT In Turkey, Bitter Feud Has Roots in History The country’s secular establishment is fighting what may be its last stand against Turkey’s softening attitude towards public signs of religiosity

ROGER COHEN The Fight for Turkey It’s easier to don a veil than take it off. Reversibility is not Islam’s forte.

Ali H Aslan Obama'ya izah edilmesi gereken

Guardian Islamic scholar is world's No 1 thinker Magazine which organised survey says Fethullah Gulen's supporters 'made a mockery' of the poll

Video: Turkey's most powerful man

Video (5min 17sec) Does the movement inspired by Fethullah Gülen represent a modern brand of Islam, or a subtle attempt to infiltrate religion into secular Turkey? The Guardian's religious affairs correspondent, Riazat Butt, reports from Istanbul

NPQ Kenzaburo Oe, Orhan Pamuk: IS JAPAN CLOSER TO WESTERN SOCIETY THAN TURKEY?

Turkish Intelligence Activities under Increased Public Scrutiny in Turkey and Greece. By Christopher Deliso

CIA ajanları Türkiye aşığıymış!

‘Türkiye AB’ye girmezse bedel öderiz’

Watch Condoleezza Rice Reflect On Lessons Of the Past Eight Years View Transcript

Rice: Laik demokrasi kadar, dindarların ülkenin parçası olması da önemli

New York Times: Türkiye'de sınıf ayrılığı var

AKP yoksula dindara ulaştı

Sesimizi yükseltelim

"Niyet Kerkük'ü Kürt bölgesine bağlamaktı"

Legality Of Hot Pursuit Into Pakistan Debated

Kirsty Hughes Turkey's judicial-political crisis