West: Time to deal with Iran-backed Houthis
...the real threat to Western world is coming from the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. The Houthis are targeting world shipping...
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Mark Lavie
Sep 164 min
Redefining Israel's way out of Gaza
If Israel declares the current conflict a “battle,” ...Israel can withdraw its forces from Gaza, get as many hostages as it can.
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Mark Lavie
Aug 194 min
US-Israel? Nothing personal--it's interests
Israel has to make its alignment with the new coalition a key part of its overall diplomatic and military policy.
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Mark Lavie
Jul 304 min
Israel falls into two traps--Now what?
Cooler heads counsel signing a hostages-for-prisoners deal with Hamas and pulling Israeli forces out of Gaza, and then deal with Hezbollah.
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Mark Lavie
Jul 144 min
Israel's inquiry into Oct. 7--trauma reinforced
Israelis have to juggle personal joys with an overwhelming collection of negative feelings: Disillusion, anger, mistrust, and sadness.
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Mark Lavie
May 74 min
Dealing with antisemitism on US campuses
The Jewish community needs to mobilize like never before, enlist the best academic minds, and pull together to make this happen...
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Mark Lavie
Apr 174 min
A wise Israeli retaliatory strike against Iran
The brains method means a reliance on cyber-attacks, which could shut down Iran for weeks or months.
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Mark Lavie
Apr 141 min
Iran attacks, Israel defends with near perfection
(No one) believed either that Iran would fire hundreds of things at Israel, or that Israel and its friends would shoot them all down.
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Mark Lavie
Apr 14 min
How to end the Gaza war now
Qatar is a thumb extending into the Persian Gulf. A better description would be a middle finger extended to the world.
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Mark Lavie
Feb 224 min
Who’s afraid of a Palestinian state?
2. Israel would do itself a favor by taking part in the process of negotiating toward a Palestinian state...
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Mark Lavie
Feb 54 min
UNRWA—just a terrorism-tainted symptom
How is it that the Palestinians want a state, and at the same time, they want the majority of their people to live in someone else's state?
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Mark Lavie
Jan 264 min
Israel: Consider the options, then decide
What is not valid is the constant drumbeat of bombastic pronouncements about what Israel won’t accept.
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Mark Lavie
Mar 19, 20234 min
Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, and...Israel
Israel has an interest in good relations with China, because it’s a power in the Middle East and the world, not to mention a huge market.
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Mark Lavie
Dec 17, 20214 min
Iran: Look who's fighting the last war
The clear conclusion is—if Iran wants nuclear weapons, it will get them. But that doesn’t mean it will use them.
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Mark Lavie
Dec 18, 20204 min
A “new Middle East” you didn’t see coming
Frustrated by decades of Palestinian obstinacy, moderate Arab nations were finally moving to put the Israeli-Palestinian issue behind them.
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Mark Lavie
Jan 3, 20202 min
Soleimani assassination: Right, but wise?
Certainly he deserved to die. But there is a saying in Hebrew: "Better wise than right."
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Mark Lavie
Nov 26, 20191 min
Join my February book/lecture tour!
"Yet Israelis keep voting on security, the the real issues are domestic, including relations with Diaspora Jews."
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