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Hard Questions, Tough Answers: April 2012 Archives

Yossi Alpher 3.jpgQ. ...Is the government complying this time with the Court's ruling (to dismantle the Ulpana Illegal Outpost)?

Q. The Independence Day weekend in Israel seems to have invited rather outspoken assessments by prominent Israeli security figures regarding Iran's nuclear program and the Netanyahu-Barak policymaking duo. What does this tell us...?

Q. Why elections so soon? What is happening to trigger them?

Alpher186x140.jpgAlpher discusses Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner hitting a Danish pro-Palestinian demonstrator with his rifle; the significance of the delivery to PM Netanyahu a list of PLO preconditions for renewing negotiations; two "early warning signs" on the Palestinian issue; and the visit last week to the Temple Mount mosques by the grand mufti of Egypt.

Alpher186x140.jpgAlpher discusses the ceasefire in Syria, the "fly-in" of Palestinian supporters to Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday and ensuing commotion, and why Israel and the US can't agree on freeing Jonathan Pollard.
Alpher186x140.jpgAlpher discusses Mofaz's upset over Livni in the Kadima leadership primary, whether Marwan Barghouti's appeal for Palestinians to launch a third, "popular" intifada and to boycott all contact with Israel and all Israeli products resonates with Palestinians, and, a decade later, what is the legacy of the conflict of the launching of Israel's massive military response to the second intifada, following the worst Palestinian suicide bombing ever.
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