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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher - May 14, 2012

May 14, 2012 12:10 PM | No Comments

Netanyahu's last-minute unity government

Alpher discusses why PM Netanyahu reversed himself last week at the last minute, canceled the September 4 general election, and brought Kadima into a broad unity government, and what do he and Mofaz stand to gain or lose.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher - May 7, 2012

May 7, 2012 2:56 PM | No Comments

Alpher discusses what the significance is of PM Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to hold elections in early September, and of the move to disband the outgoing Knesset immediately, what are the chances that the parties of the center-left could displace Netanyahu or force the Likud into a more moderate coalition, whether the prospect of elections rules out a preventive Israeli attack on Iran in the coming months and what are the ramifications for Egyptian-Israeli peace and for Israel's energy economy of Egypt cancelling its commercial contract to deliver natural gas to Israel.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher - April 30, 2012

April 30, 2012 10:15 AM | No Comments

Yossi Alpher 3.jpg Q. ...Is the government complying this time with the Court's ruling (to dismantle the Ulpana Illegal Outpost)?

Q. The Independence Day weekend in Israel seems to have invited rather outspoken assessments by prominent Israeli security figures regarding Iran's nuclear program and the Netanyahu-Barak policymaking duo. What does this tell us...?

Q. Why elections so soon? What is happening to trigger them?

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Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher - April 23, 2012

April 23, 2012 11:01 AM | No Comments

Alpher discusses Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner hitting a Danish pro-Palestinian demonstrator with his rifle; the significance of the delivery to PM Netanyahu a list of PLO preconditions for renewing negotiations; two "early warning signs" on the Palestinian issue; and the visit last week to the Temple Mount mosques by the grand mufti of Egypt.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher - April 16, 2012

April 16, 2012 11:26 AM | 1 Comment

Alpher discusses the ceasefire in Syria, the "fly-in" of Palestinian supporters to Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday and ensuing commotion, and why Israel and the US can't agree on freeing Jonathan Pollard.

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SPECIAL EDITION: Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher, Israeli Security Expert

April 4, 2012 2:01 PM | No Comments

Alpher 320x265.jpg Q. What do people mean when they say that time is running out on the two-state solution?

Q. How does the absence of a Palestinian state threaten Israel?

Q. Why is solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the U.S. interest?

Q. Is Fateh-Hamas reconciliation a threat to the two-state solution?

Q. The Arab world is currently in the throes of a revolutionary "Arab spring". Does this leave any room for an Israel-Arab peace process?

Q. Why are Israeli peace and human rights advocacy organizations being vilified, threatened with punitive legislative and even physically attacked by the right?

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Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher - April 2, 2012

April 2, 2012 1:33 PM | No Comments

Alpher discusses Mofaz's upset over Livni in the Kadima leadership primary, whether Marwan Barghouti's appeal for Palestinians to launch a third, "popular" intifada and to boycott all contact with Israel and all Israeli products resonates with Palestinians, and, a decade later, what is the legacy of the conflict of the launching of Israel's massive military response to the second intifada, following the worst Palestinian suicide bombing ever.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher - March 26, 2012

March 26, 2012 11:32 AM | No Comments

Alpher discusses the Israeli high court rejection of the Migron compromise, why Israelis seem oddly relaxed about the dangers of war with Iran, what the murder of Jews in Toulouse by an Islamic extremist tells us about tells us about Islam in Europe that we didn't already know, why the several important dates from this week are indeed so important, and why the Tuareg revolt in Northern Mali may have significance for the Arab revolutions.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher - March 19, 2012

March 19, 2012 1:04 PM | 3 Comments

Alpher discusses escalation between Israel and jihadist groups in the Gaza Strip, assesses the danger that a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government in Egypt would seek to cancel the peace treaty with Israel, and the trending course of Arab revolutions from Libya and beyond.

Threats on Israel's borders

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