Auf ihre Versammlung im vergangenen Mai hat die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO eine Resolution verabschiedet, die die „Verschlechterung der Gesundheitsbedingungen der syrischen Bevölkerung auf dem besetzten Golan als Ergebnis der unterdrückerischen Praktiken der israelischen Besatzung“ verurteilt. Die Resolution, Geistes Kind der syrischen und palästinensischen Delegierten, tat es anderen Versuchen gleich, Israel in...
In helping Syrian refugees in Jordan, Israelis are hoping to create new bonds Mafraq is a single-story city in the desert flats of northern Jordan, built in beige and white, spiked with mosques and dotted with chalky vacant lots that suffice as soccer courts. The pores and meridians of...
Nir Boms JERUSALÉN — En su encuentro de este pasado mayo, la Organización Mundial de la Salud adoptó una resolución de condena del "deterioro de las condiciones sanitarias de la población siria en el Golán ocupado, producto de las prácticas autoritarias de la ocupación israelí”. La resolución, iniciativa de los...
The Journal of International Security Affairs JERUSALEM— In its meeting this past May, the World Health Organization adopted a resolution condemning the “deterioration of the health conditions of the Syrian population in the occupied Golan as a result of the suppressive practices of the Israeli occupation.” The resolution, a brainchild of...
International news outlets bolstered the recent round of 5+1 negotiations in Geneva, with the BBC reporting an “upbeat mood” and CNN and Reuters speaking of “cautions optimism”, calling the talks “serious.” President Barack Obama has just urged Congress to halt new sanctions on Iran and an Iranian official pledged a...
Last week was a long, Syria-focused one in the Capitol, and it seems that just about everyone feels that they have come out victorious. Everyone, that is, excepting for a senior delegation of the Syrian opposition. They left frustrated that, amid all the hype about Syria, hardly anyone in...
The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy: Understanding the 2006 Hezbollah–Israeli War by Henrietta Wilkins(London: Routledge, 2013), 180 pages Reviewed by Nir Boms for the Israeli Journal of Foreign Affairs In August 2013, seven years after the end of the Second Lebanon War, air raid sirens were again sounded in northern Israel....
by Nir Boms and Shayan Arya July 30, 2013 at 3:00 am The Gatestone Institute Rouhani's campaign symbol was a giant golden key, which he waved at rallies to symbolize his ability to open locked doors. To an Iranian electorate all too familiar with locked doors in every aspect...
גל המחאה שהחל כנגד הריסת הפארק הציבורי גזי באיסטנבול צבר תאוצה הן בגלל התגובה הכוחנית של המשטרה ברחבי טורקיה הן בגלל הצטברות של כעס על השיטות הכוחניות של הממשלה בכלל ועל האסלום הזוחל של המרחב הציבורי (בגרפיטי קולע ליד שכונת טקסים נכתב: "אסרתם על מכירת אלכוהול אז האנשים התפכחו!"). בזמן שהתקשורת הישראלית התמקדה...
Nir Boms & Ehud Eilam Academic Views, May 2013 Some parallels exist between the rebels’ situation in Syria and Libya – but also a difference that create two models for an uprising. Can Iran follow one of them too? The effect of the Arab earthquake It began in the squares:...