votes: one for a party list and one for a directly elected Prime Minister. This would be a personal test, an opportunity for Shimon to build on the still-tenuous achievement of Oslo and finally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even ha...
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an effort to avoid civil conflict. Disregarding their advice, President Saleh remains convinced that he will be able to stem the uprising and maintain his control of the government. On Sunday night, President Saleh ordered units of the Republican Guard and Central Security—comma...
every aspect of the killings — including any failings by the army, the Shin Bet, the police or other authorities that might have allowed the tragedy to happen. The commission interviewed dozens of witnesses, Israeli and Palestinian, in 31 separate sessions. I knew early on that t...
result immediately as a warning to possibly affected victims, but the exploit hummed at such a basic level of the system that it proved impossible to fully patch. It was like trying to patch physics. Connection changes the nature of an object. This has a particular impact on the...
Moroccan security forces have accused the 20" February movement—which is demanding constitutional reforms—of violating the law, claiming that the movement has become an umbrella cover for extremists, from the left and right, who are calling for the downfall of the regime. Officia...
The NSA‘s Back Door | 213 including the hacking culture. Ex-hackers who lacked (or shunned) employment opportunities in the corporate sector were suitable candidates for the system administrator jobs that these firms had contracted to supply the NSA. In the rush to expand, littl...
My job was to ensure the security not just of the Gush Emunim march but of the counter-demonstrators, and, of course, the local Palestinian population. As the rival marches by the Israelis proceeded, I personally delivered warnings against any violence, both to the settlement lea...
Freedom House Authoritarians on Color Revolutions “In my opinion, everything that happened in Ukraine shook Russia... Young people began to discuss and think about Russias direc- tion.” —lvan Mostovich, press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi, April 2005 “...
Saudi Arabia. When Saudi Arabia wanted American forces removed from the kingdom, for example, Qatar was eager to compensate by hosting a more robust American command presence in the region. The Arab uprisings and subsequent GCC intervention in Bahrain have turned the tables, mak...
Click here to read more... Donate Today Trump’s Saudi Arms Sale Is About Politics and Economics, Not Security by Mitchell Bard President Trump wants to use his emergency powers to sell billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia on national security grounds. Congress...
Secret Agent | 27 later say that the NSA experts who examined the documents that he had stolen were “totally incapable.” In any case, in February 2009, Snowden not only had a career- damaging “derog” in his file but faced an internal investigation of his suspicious computer act...
Debt Level: Why Will It Continue to Rise? Answer Part 1: Notional Social Security “Trust Fund” Surpluses Likely Turning Into Deficits Owing to Aging Population Social Security Cumulative Real Operating Surpluses / Deficits, 1982-2037E Cumulative Surpluses Projected Cumulative...
from the massacre was that the mix of Jewish settlers, some of whom felt they were on a messianic mission to resettle all of Biblical Israel, and restive Palestinians who wanted sovereignty and control over their own lives was potentially toxic, for both sides. Ideally, the proce...
given Egypt’s much-savored relationship with other Gulf countries (not to mention the United States). It does represent a re-balancing of relationships in a changing Middle East nonetheless. A new round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 (five permanent members of the Security C...
Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...