Shlomo Avineri

Shlomo Avineri is a professor on Political Sciences at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem. He was the General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Relations. Being a member of a satellite institute of the CIA in charge of assisting leftist parties, he has been involved in the democratization processes of many countries in Eastern Europe.

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"Hamas in power"

by Shlomo Avineri

7 February 2006

The victory of Hamas fundamentalists will have unprecedented consequences for the region, but since now, two elements are discerned. Hamas’s victory is an evidence of the incapacity of the traditional Palestinian leadership to form a political body. The Palestinian Authority, which has enjoyed (…)

“Israel could live with a broken up and weakened Iraq”

by Shlomo Avineri

12 January 2006

Most Israelis supported the overthrow of Sadaam Hussein. The debate about the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction has not affected them much even when they were forced by Sadaam Hussein to use gas masks twice in the 90s. For Israelis, Sadaam Hussein was like the Hitler of the 30s and the French (…)

“Long litany of contradictions”

by Shlomo Avineri

6 September 2005

The draft constitution agreed upon by the Shiites and the Kurdish will probably be the text presented to a popular referendum in Iraq but, even if ratified, it is unlikely that it will keep Iraq together. The reason is that the Arab Sunni minority will do everything to sabotage any document that (…)

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