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March 2006

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Editorial Board

Prof. Edward Alexander, USA
Christopher Barder, UK
Prof. Louis René Beres, USA
Yossef Bodansky, USA
Dr. David Bukay, Israel
Dr. Netta Kohn Dor-Shav, Israel
Prof. Paul Eidelberg, Israel
Prof. Talia Einhorn, Israel
Dr. Raya Epstein, Israel
Yoram Ettinger, Israel
Dr. Joel Fishman, Israel
Howard Grief, Israel
Elyakim Ha'etzni, Israel
Prof. Raphael Israeli, Israel
Dr. Yitzhak Klein, Israel
Dr. Azriel Lorber, Israel

Yisrael Medad, Israel
Dr. Irving Moskowitz, USA
Dr. Mordechai Nisan, Israel
Dr. Reuven Pedatzur, Israel
Shawn Pine, USA
Dr. Steven Plaut, Israel
David Pryce-Jones, UK
Dr. Charles Selengut, USA
Prof. Shlomo Sharan, Israel
Dr. Shaul Shay, Israel
Dr. Martin Sherman, Israel
Prof. Eliav Shochetman, Israel
Dr. Dany Shoham, Israel
Prof. Ezra Sohar, Israel
Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto, Israel
Laurence Weinbaum, Israel

Editorial Staff

Arieh Stav, Editor-in-Chief 

Leah Kochanowitz, Executive Editor

Christopher Barder, Associate Editor 

Janet Berkley, Copy Editor 

Josh Schreier, Translations

Itta Horol, Managing Editor

Issue

Author

Title

No. 8

Oct. 2005

David Bukay

The Image of Evil: On the Hideous Slander of Arab Students, Anti-Zionist Jews and the Scoop-Chasing Media

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Howard Grief

The Origin of the Occupation Myth

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Shlomo Sharan

Assimilation, Normalcy and Jewish Self-Hatred

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Yonatan Silverman

On The New York Times and Jews in Danger

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Mark Silverberg

Captives of a Concept: The Sharon Plan

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Ze`ev Wolfson

The Moscow-Teheran-Damascus Axis Under Construction: Nuclear, Terror and Anti-Terror Interests

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Moshe Sharon

Europe Beware! Muslim Europe in the Making

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Manfred Gerstenfeld

Jews Against Israel

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Christopher Barder

Book Review of David Bukay's

Yasser Arafat and the Politics of Paranoia: A Painful Legacy

No. 8

Oct. 2005

Shalom Freedman

Book Review of Manfred Gerstenfeld's

American Jewry's Challenge

Special Edition

Arieh Stav

The Planned Ethnic Cleansing and Some of Its Consequences

No. 7

Mar. 2005

Louis René Beres and Paul Eidelberg

Preserving the Land and People of Israel in the Face of "Disengagement": Obligations of Higher Law, International Law and Torah Law

No. 7

Mar. 2005

Howard Grief

The Transfer of Jews Under Prime Minister Sharon's Unilateral Disengagement Plan

No. 7

Mar. 2005

P. David Hornik

Israel’s Tenured Radicals

No. 7

Mar. 2005

Raphael Israeli

The Status of the United States in the Arab World after the Third Gulf War

No. 7

Mar. 2005

Note from the Editor

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Raphael Israeli

The Arab Crisis in Israel:

What Can Be Done?

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Paul Eidelberg

Democratizing Islam

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Yisrael Medad

Jerusalem's Temple Mount:

A Jewish-Muslim Flashpoint

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Atalia Ben-Meir

The War Against Israel: Exploiting Democracy to Disenfranchise the Jewish Nation

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Amnon Lord

MAPAM's "Officers' Circle" - The Politicization of the IDF and Ideological Delinquency in the State of Israel

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Elyakim Ha'Etzni

There is Life Without a Solution

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Eliav Shochetman

"He Who is Compassionate to the Cruel Will Ultimately Become Cruel to the Compassionate": Contemporary Lessons from an Ancient Midrash

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Yitzhak Klein

Israel's War with the Palestinians: Sources, Political Objectives and Operational Means

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Charles Selengut

Religious Visions and Sacred Terror:

The Case of Islam

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

David Bukay

Total Terrorism in the Name of Allah: The Emergence of the New Islamic Fundamentalists (Part II)

No. 6 /

Oct. 2004

Steven Plaut

Peace at Last

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

Shalom Freedman

The Iranian Nuclear Threat

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

David Bukay

Total Terrorism in the Name of Allah: The Emergence of the New Islamic Fundamentalists (Part I)

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

Jay Shapiro

A Regional Perspective on the Arab-Israel Conflict

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

Talia Einhorn

The Arab-Israeli Peace Mirage: Legal Perspectives

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

Paul Giniewski

The Jews of France Tormented by the "Intifada of the Suburbs"

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

John Fonte

The Future of the Ideological Civil War Within the West

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

Paul Eidelberg and Will Morrisey

Islam and Nazism: What are the Connections?

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

Arieh Eldad

Two States for Two Nations on Two Sides of the Jordan River

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

Editor's Question and

a Selection of Answers

Who is a Jew and Primarily - Why?

Will You Sign?

No. 5 /

Aug. 2004

In Honor of the 100th Issue of Nativ, Some Friends Share Their Thoughts

No. 4 /

June 2004

Rand H. Fishbein

Tank Tops and Heavy Metal: Armor's Enduring Appeal on the Modern Middle Eastern Battlefield

No. 4 /

June 2004

Arieh Stav

The Israeli Aspect of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD): Strategy by Defense

No. 4 /

June 2004

Gal Luft

From Clandestine Army to Guardians of Terror: The Palestinian Security Forces and the Second Intifada

No. 4 /

June 2004

Atalia Ben-Meir

Re-Evaluating "Oslo" in Light of the Roadmap

No. 4 /

June 2004

Dany Shoham

The New Map of Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Middle East

No. 4 /

June 2004

Ilan Berman

New Horizons for the American Israeli Partnership

No. 4 /

June 2004

Christopher Barder

The Disengagement Plan: Is it Good for Israel?

No. 4 /

June 2004

Paul Bogdanor

Chomsky's War Against Israel

No. 4 /

June 2004

Joel Fishman

Lev Grinberg and the Meaning of "Symbolic Genocide"

No. 4 /

June 2004

Martin Sobier

France, The First Islamic State in Western Europe?

No. 4 /

June 2004

Editorial

Thy Destroyers and They that Made Thee Waste Shall Go Forth of Thee (Isaiah 49:17)

No. 3/

April 2004

The "Project Daniel" Group, Louis René Beres, Chair

Israel's Strategic Future: "Project Daniel"

No. 3/

April 2004

Yuval Brandstetter

The Truth - Always in Reverse

No. 3/

April 2004

David Bukay

Islamic Fundamentalism and the Arab Political Culture

No. 3/

April 2004

Paul Eidelberg

The David Ha'Ivri Case: Expert Opinion Presented to the Magistrate Court in Jerusalem

No. 3/

April 2004

Susanne Urban

Friend or Foe? Jewish Self-Degradation and Its Misuse by Anti-Semites in Contemporary Germany

No. 3/

April 2004

Mordechai Nisan

Religious, Cultural, and Rhetorical Aspects in Palestinian Strategy

No. 3/

April 2004

Shlomo Sharan

Assimilation, Normalcy and Jewish Self-Hatred

No. 3/

April 2004

Edward Alexander

Tom Paulin: Poetaster of Murder

No. 3/

April 2004

Yosef Oren

An Unconventional Attitude Toward Israeli Literature

No. 3/

April 2004

Shaul Shay

Mahatir Muhammad, Osama Bin Laden and the Jewish Problem

No. 3/

April 2004

Steven Plaut

Israel at 56 / So, What's So Bad About the Sharon-Bush "Disengagement" Plan?

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Christopher Barder

"Peace", the Politicians, the Press and the Public: Israel's Portrayal "Always in the Wrong" and How to Reverse It

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Anthony Dennis

A New and More Dangerous Era

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Editorial

Ariel Sharon: "Any Concessions Whatever in 'the Territories' is a Certain Recipe for National Suicide"

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Raya Epstein

Post-Zionism and Democracy

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Joel Fishman

Book Review: The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy by Neal Kozodoy

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Howard Grief

Legal Rights and Title of Sovereignty of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel and Palestine Under International Law

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Elyakim Ha'etzni

Expel Arafat - and Then What?

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Aharon Levran

A Disaster Foretold: The Strategic Dangers of a Palestinian State

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Mordechai Nisan

The Challenge of Islam

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

David Pryce-Jones

The Closed Circle: Postscript 1990-2003

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Moshe Sharon

Palestinian Ideology and Practice Ten Years After Oslo

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Eliav Shochetman

Endangering IDF Soldiers in Order to Avoid Harming Enemy Civilians in the Wake of Operation "Defensive Shield"

No. 2/

Feb. 2004

Robert Wistrich

Islamic Judeophobia: An Existential Threat

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Meir Abelson

Palestine: The Original Sin

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Edward Alexander

Academics Against Israel

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Louis René Beres

The Bomb in the Basement

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

David Bukay

The First Cultural Flaw in Thinking: The Arab Personality

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Editorial

From Begin to Sharon – A Few Comments on the History of Defeatism

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Paul Eidelberg

Ariel Sharon: Labor's Surrogate Minister

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Talia Einhorn

The Status of Palestine / Land of Israel and its Settlement Under Public International Law

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Raphael Israeli

Educating Palestinian Children in the Post-Oslo Era

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Shawn Pine

Egypt's True Defense Expenditures: $2.7 or 14 Billion

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Steven Plaut

Dear Professor "S": A Letter to an Academic Critic of Israel

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Steven Plaut

The Brat with No Hat - or -

The Tail of the Geneva "Accord"

No. 1/

Dec. 2003

Arieh Stav

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