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Hard Questions, Tough Answers: August 2012 Archives
Alpher discusses Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's motives for apparently declaring war on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and his view regarding if and when Israel should take the military initiative on Iran revisiting his set of criteria for determining whether it was wise for Israel to attack Iran's nuclear project.
Q. ...how can Netanyahu
emerge from this showdown with the United States and his own security
establishment (on his approach to Iran) without losing face?
Q. Does last week's appointment of ex-Shin Bet head Avi Dichter to
civil defense minister help Netanyahu's cause with the Israeli public
regarding Iran?
Q. What do you make of the announcement...that Egypt is
considering introducing changes in the military annex of the
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...?
Alpher discusses the controversy within Israel and between it and the Obama administration regarding the wisdom and timing of an attack on Iran: what would Israel gain? What would be the downside? Why are Netanyahu and Barak having so much difficulty in persuading the Israeli public that Israel should do the job, and soon, Why the Israeli civilian rear is such an important factor in Israeli calculations when it wasn't in the past, the odds of an early Israeli attack, and the strategic implications of Morsi's dramatic subordination of the Egyptian military to his authority.
Alpher discusses whether the terrorist incident in the Sinai on Sunday with the Egyptian soldiers is an internationally significant event, comments on Dani Dayan's opinion piece in the New York Times, and the dissonance between Netanyahu's government's policies and his quiet agreement with the Palestinian Authority to improve the PA's economic situation through more efficient cooperation.
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