Copyright 2012 Jewish Policy Center Wed, 16 May 2012 16:56:57 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jewish Policy Center :: Writings http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org mbrodsky@sitedomain (Jewish Policy Center) webmaster@sitedomain en-us http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/us-commits-to-increased-iron-dome-funding Wed, 16 May 2012 16:12:00 EST Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is in Washington this week to accept a package of nearly $1 billion in aid from the United States for the development and building of missile defense systems in Israel. Included in the package is $680 million for develo http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/syria-fighting-spills-over-into-lebanon Tue, 15 May 2012 13:57:58 EST Hundreds of Lebanese soldiers supported by armored vehicles deployed Tuesday inside Tripoli to end three days of deadly fighting between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen -- the former's residents are mostly Sunni and oppose Syri http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/replacing-the-tal-law-israel-democracy-at-work Mon, 14 May 2012 16:53:00 EST Israeli Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz on Monday defended his choice to bring Kadima into the new governing coalition, which will concentrate on passing a new budget, changing the political system, and advancing the peace process. As part of the agenda, Mofaz a http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3039/flunking-the-syria-test Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 EST With the Syrian uprising now past its one-year anniversary, it's long past time to take stock of the carnage. This article explains why Syria matters to the U.S. and exposes the failure of U.S. policy to deal with the "Syrian Spring." Finally, it proposes foreign policy options that can be taken independently or in conjunction with others. http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/moussa-fotouh-face-off-in-egypt-first-presidential-debate Fri, 11 May 2012 15:34:00 EST Egypt's two presidential front-runners, out of 12 contenders, faced-off in an unprecedented debate Thursday night. Less than two weeks before the first presidential elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the televised debate between Amr Moussa and Abdel http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3013/will-the-young-eat-the-revolution Fri, 11 May 2012 09:00:00 EST Revolutions, it is often said, eat their young; the Palestinian revolutionary movement, in all its splinters, certainly has swallowed generations of Palestinian children. A poll by the Arab World for Research & Development (AWRAD) shows signs, however, th http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3010/the-rights-of-indigenous-people-and-the-rest-of-us Fri, 11 May 2012 09:00:00 EST In early 2011, President Obama announced that the United States would sign the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Now the U.N. wants us to give Mt. Rushmore to the Indians. James Anaya, U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenou http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/congress-mulls-new-restrictions-to-egypt-pa-aid Thu, 10 May 2012 15:14:00 EST The House of Representatives' Foreign Operations Appropriations subcommittee passed a $40.1 billion budget for 2013 with new stipulations for U.S. funds that go to Egypt and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in an effort to protect U.S. interests in the mids http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/russia-terminates-s-300-contract-with-iran Wed, 9 May 2012 16:09:00 EST An Iranian official announced Tuesday that Russia, in a breach of contract, returned Iran's advanced payment and accrued interest fees after refusing to deliver a minimum of five S-300 missile systems to Tehran. Manufactured and exported by Russia, the S- http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/underwear-bomber-2-thwarted Tue, 8 May 2012 14:24:00 EST News of a thwarted bomb plot broke Monday afternoon, around the same time as the anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year. The plot was discovered before it was put into action, and a nonmetallic explosive device resembling the one us http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3004/the-new-israeli-coalition-and-the-elephant-in-the-cabinet-room Tue, 8 May 2012 09:00:00 EST Rarely do politics in a democratic country wrap up as neatly as they did for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week.  Having scheduled new parliamentary elections that he was assuredly going to win, today he announced that the coalition was e http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/bin-laden-from-beyond-the-grave Mon, 7 May 2012 13:40:00 EST One year after Osama bin Laden's death, the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point has published 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid -- a small sample of the documents found at the compound. The released documents, total http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/with-plans-like-annans Fri, 4 May 2012 12:28:00 EST According to Ahmad Fawzi, spokesman for UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, the peace plan for Syria brokered by Annan "is on track" despite recent reports of violations. "A crisis that has been going on for over a year is not going to be resolved in a day o http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/freedom-of-press-remains-blocked-in-the-middle-east Thu, 3 May 2012 16:22:00 EST Global media freedom did not decline last year for the first time in eight years, according to an annual report released by Freedom House Tuesday. But even with that positive news, the report expressed that the Middle East and North Africa experienced "dr http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2012/05/taliban-respond-to-obama-afghan-visit Wed, 2 May 2012 11:46:00 EST The Taliban answered President Obama's unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, during which he declared that Western forces could leave on schedule in 2014 because of recent security gains. "We broke the Taliban's momentum. We've built strong Afghan