Neri Zilber

Posts and Dispatches from Neri Zilber:

  • Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson checks in with Neri Zilber
    Past Fellow Neri Zilber (@NeriZilber), a journalist and adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Tel Aviv, talks about how Israelis and Palestinians are reacting to Trump’s first 10 days in office. Listen now....

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  • Israel Plays its Trump Card
    FOREIGN POLICY (Jan 20, 2017) –Past Fellow Neri Zilber explains how the Israeli government is anticipating the Trump Presidency....

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  • “ISIS” Attack in Jerusalem Uses a Truck, the New/Old Weapon of Choice
    Aside from the tragic loss of life, there are perhaps larger security and political implications to this latest event in Jersalem. Read Past Fellow Neri Zilber‘s  latest dispatch in the Daily Beast. ...

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  • Neri Zilber: will scandal bring down Netanyahu?
    Police Grill Benjamin Netanyahu on Corruption Charges THE DAILY BEAST, Jan. 2, 2017 – Past Fellow and Trustee Neri Zilber explains the seriousness of the investigations facing Israel’s formidable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Will scandal bring down the combative yet durable Netanyahu?...

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  • Fatah’s Civil War
    Past Fellow Neri Zilber’s latest article in Foreign Affairs, on the incipient civil war inside Fatah.  The piece delves into the possible reasons for why the Palestinian Authority security forces recently killed one of their own — a policeman and former chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in Nablus....

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  • How Israel Plays Syria’s Civil War
    THE DAILY BEAST – Former Fellow Neri Zilber’s latest article on Israel and the Syrian civil war focuses on the Golan Heights and how Israel’s force posture, including its relationship with the rebels on the other side of the border, has evolved over the past several years. After half a decade sitting out the civil war, is...

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  • Israel and Hezbollah – A Fragile Peace
    Tablet – Past Fellow Neri Zilber delves into the complex reality of life along Israel’s border with Lebanon in his recent article. Along the so-called Blue Line that divides the two countries, the threat of conflict between the Israel Defense Forces and the Shi’a militia group Hezbollah is ever-present. Neri describes how 10 years on...

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  • Netanyahu’s Coalition Games
    Foreign Affairs – Former Fellow Neri Zilber has written a new article on the recent upheaval in Israeli politics, when Labor party chairman Isaac Herzog entered into talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about joining the current government only to have the deal fall apart. According to Zilber, “Herzog has become a laughingstock, both within his...

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  • Israel’s Secret Weapon Against Terror
    The Daily Beast – In his latest article, past ICWA Fellow Neri Zilber examines an important and often overlooked factor that is contributing to the decline in violence in the West Bank, the work of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces.  The PASF cooperates with the Israel Defense Forces to contain Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been and continues to...

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  • Hezbollah Claims a ‘Nuclear Option’ in Tense Standoff with Israel
    The Daily Beast – In a new article, past ICWA Fellow Neri Zilber delves into the topic of the Israeli-Hezbollah cold war and what the next escalation in Lebanon might look like. Zilber writes, “Like the historic global battle between East and West, this more localized Middle Eastern version sees both Israel and Hezbollah preparing...

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