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Hard Questions, Tough Answers: March 2011 Archives

Yossi Alpher 186x140.jpgIs the growing unrest in Syria more significant for Israel than similar developments elsewhere in the Arab world?

Why is the September 2011 deadline for declaring a Palestinian state seemingly so "sacred" to the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank?


Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa is generally understood to be the leading candidate to be elected the next president of Egypt. How significant is this for Israel?

Yossi Alpher 186x140.jpgWhat are the ramifications...of the past week's turn of events in the Arab revolutionary wave, with Saudi troops entering Bahrain and the western powers attacking Libya on the basis of a UN mandate for international intervention? The "solution" for Libya seems radically different. Why?

Connection between new wave of Palestinian unity efforts and escalated mortar attacks from Gaza?

Yossi Alpher 3.jpgYossi Alpher writes about the effect the murders at the Itamar settlement will have on the peace process, and on the new peace initiative Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed to be preparing prior to the attack. 

Yossi Alpher 186x140.jpgAlpher discusses the reported new Israeli peace initiative from Netanyahu, and what is behind it. Also, what explains the small amount of 'revolutionary actions' on the Palestinian and Syrian street.


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