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June 2011

THE UNIQUE AND MUTUALLY BENFICIAL US/ISRAEL RELATIONS: YORAM ETTINGER

THE BOTTOM-UP US-ISRAEL RELATIONS http://www.theettingerreport.com/OpEd/General/The-Mutually-Beneficial-Bottom -Up-US-Israel-Relati.aspx The enthusiastic reception – by Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, doves and hawks – to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s May 24, 2011 speech before a joint session of the US Congress reflected the unique relationship between the United States and Israel. The ties between the US and Israel resemble […]

ALAN BAKER: GAZA FLOTILLAS TO COME…THE GROUND RULES

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=7368&TTL=The_Gaza_Flotillas_to_Come:_Some_Ground_Rules_before_Setting_Out Amb. Alan Baker, Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is former Legal Adviser to Israel’s Foreign Ministry and former Ambassador of Israel to Canada. An ostensibly civilian, humanitarian flotilla was employed in May 2010 to demonstratively breach the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza coast. This […]