Gaza Briefings
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Shalem Scholars Provide Analysis and Commentary on War in Gaza
In January 2009, as Israel faced the multifaceted and painful challenge of confronting the Hamas regime in Gaza, it sought to clarify its message to itself, to foreign governments and to the rest of the world. Shalem scholars delivered daily, in-depth and up to date analysis on Israel's situation and what was truly at stake for the Jewish state.
Natan Sharansky is an internationally renowned human rights activist, political leader, and author. He is currently chairman of the Jewish Agency, a position he assumed on June 25, 2009. In January 2009, he was the chairman of the Shalem Center's Institute for Strategic Studies as well as a distinguished fellow. Sharansky's award-winning books, Fear No Evil (1988) and The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) are critically acclaimed best sellers in Israel and around the world.
Bloomberg: Save Gaza by destroying the heart of terror By Natan Sharansky Seattle Public Intelligencer, January 14, 2009
How the U.N. Perpetuates the 'Refugee' Problem By Natan Sharansky The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2008
Daniel Polisar is the president of the Shalem Center. He is among the founders of the Center, a Jerusalem-based research and educational institute, and has served during the past decade as research director, academic director, editor-in-chief of the Center’s journal, Azure, and, since 2002, as president.
We Jews Love Life: A Tribute to Dvir Emanuelof Powerline blog January 12, 2009
Michael Oren is currently Israeli Ambassador to the United States. In January 2009, he was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center. Oren is a best selling historian, author of the New York Times best sellers Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, and Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. In addition to his regular columns in major US and Israeli media, he has served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, and was an army spokesman in the second Lebanon War.
Interview with Michael Oren January 6, 2009
CNN, Fareed Zakaria GPS [Video] Interview with Michael Oren January 4, 2009
Does Obama Have the Political Capital to Help Broker Peace? by Michael Oren The Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2009
Israel Moves To Stifle Hamas Rocket Attacks Interview with Michael Oren NPR Morning Edition, January 5, 2009
By Michael Oren The New Republic, January 4, 2009
January 4, 2009
by Michael Oren The New Republic, January 1, 2009
Palestinians Need Israel to Win by Michael B. Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi The Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2008
Analysis and Insight via Conference Call OnTuesday December 30, 2008, Michael Oren offered unprecedented insight and analysis to Shalem friends and supporters via a telephone conference call. We are pleased to make a recording of the call available. Click here to listen:
In January 2009, Yossi Klein Halevi was a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center. He is the Israel correspondent of the New Republic, author of two books, and has been a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and a frequent guest on CNN and other national and international broadcast media. Halevi is currently writing a book about the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem in 1967.
Click here to listen to a discussion by Yossi Klein Halevi and Daniel Gordis with leaders of the UJA Federation in Toronto. This took place on January 13, 2008.
Much Unresolved After Fragile Hamas-Israel Truce Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi NPR, January 21, 2009
Israel Declares Cease-Fire; Hamas Says It Will Fight On By Steven Erlanger [Yossi Klein Halevi quoted at length] New York Times, January 18, 2009
By Yossi Klein Halevi The New Republic, January 16, 2008
by Yossi Klein Halevi January 14, 2009
The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi January 11, 2008
by Yossi Klein Halevi Globeandmail.com, January 10, 2009 [A "A Must Read" says the National Post, Canada]
Third Stage of the Assault will be War's Hardest Test for Israel By Yossi Klein Halevi New York Daily News, January 6, 2009
KRLA 870 AM The Dennis Prager Show Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi [audio] January 5, 2009
As My Son Goes to War, I am Fully Israeli at Last by Yossi Klein Halevi Washington Post, January 4, 2009 Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2009 (cover of Comment & Features section)
The Age (Australia) January 5, 2009
WA Today (Australia), January 4, 2009
In Gaza the real enemy is Iran by Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael Oren Los Angeles Time, January 4, 2009 [Blogged here by Andrew Sullivan on his "The Daily Dish" blog]
by Yossi Klein Halevi The New Republic, December 29, 2008
In January, 2009, Martin Kramer was a Senior Fellow at Shalem's Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies. He is currently the president-designate for Shalem College. He is also the Wexler-Fromer Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Olin Institute Senior Fellow at Harvard University. His books include Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival; The Jewish Discovery of Islam; and Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America.
Civilians should be protected, unless... By Martin Kramer Sandbox.com, January 19, 2009
By Martin Kramer The Jerusalem Post, January 18, 2009
How to prevent Hamas from claiming victory By Martin Kramer The History News Network, January 14, 2009
by Martin Kramer January 14, 2009
Interview with Martin Kramer January 6, 2009
Battling Toward the Collapse of the Hamas Regime by Martin Kramer The Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2009
by Martin Kramer JPost.com, January 4, 2009 [Blogged here by Andrew Sullivan on his "The Daily Dish" blog]
by Martin Kramer The Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2008
On Tuesday, January 6, 2009, Martin Kramer offered unprecedented insight and analysis to Shalem friends and supporters via a telephone conference call. We are pleased to make a recording of the call available. Click here to listen:
Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center, where he is also a senior fellow. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and currents in Israel, Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler Rabbinical School at the University of Judaism. His writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, Moment, Tikkun, and Conservative Judaism.
Click here to listen to a discussion by Yossi Klein Halevi and Daniel Gordis with leaders of the UJA Federation in Toronto. This took place on January 13, 2009.
In Perspective: A Modest Proposal by Daniel Gordis The Jerusalem Post, January 15, 2009
Taking Risks After the Gaza War by Daniel Gordis The New York Times, January 12, 2009
by Daniel Gordis Danielgordis.org, January 4, 2009
Michael Widlanski, who in January 2009 was a research fellow at the Shalem Center, is a specialist in Arab politics and communication whose doctorate dealt with the Palestinian broadcast media. He is a former reporter, correspondent and editor, at The New York Times ,The Cox Newspapers-Atlanta Constitution, and The Jerusalem Post.
Interview with Michael Widlanski FrontPage Magazine, January 5, 2009
Middle East : Gaza attacks central to Israeli elections Interview with Michael Widlanski European Wire Service, January 4, 2009
David Keyes was the coordinator of the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies' programs in democracy. Prior to joining the Institute in 2008, Keyes assisted former ambassador to the U.N Dore Gold, served in the Strategic Division of the Israeli army and conducted research on terrorism at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He has written for The New Republic, National Review and the Jerusalem Post.
by David Keyes Commentary, January 1, 2009
"Turmoil in Gaza: Implications" In June 2007, following Hamas' takeover of the Gaza strip, Shalem's Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies hosted an event to discuss its future. Moderated by Natan Sharansky, speakers included Lieutenant General (Res.) Moshe Ya'alon, Major-General (Res.) Giora Eiland, Professor Rafi Israeli, Palestinian Rights Monitoring Group Director Bassem Eid, and others. Click here for video highlights of the conference:
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