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Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

URL: http://www.jcpa.org/

JCPA is an independent, non-profit institute for policy research and education serving Israel and the Jewish people since 1976. The Center is headed by Israel's former UN Ambassador Dr. Dore Gold. Some 300 researchers have participated in JCPA studies, including 70 Center Fellows and Associates, resulting in over 700 publications in English and Hebrew.

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Policy Briefs

Title: Protecting the Contiguity of Israel: The E-1 Area and the Link Between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim
Authors: Nadav Shragai
Date: May 2009

Title: Al Jazeera and Qatar: The Muslim Brothers' Dark Empire?
Authors: Zvi Mazel
Date: May 2009

Title: The Russian Handicap to U.S. Iran Policy
Date: April 2009

Title: The Obama Administration and Implications for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East
Authors: Scott Carpenter
Date: April 2009

Title: The Growing Threat of Radical Islamic Groups in Germany
Authors: David Perl
Date: April 2009

Title: The European Union Report on Jerusalem: Distortions and Omissions
Authors: Nadav Shragai
Date: April 2009

Title: The Role of Radical Islamic Groups in Israel: Implications for Israeli-Arab Coexistence
Authors: Mordechai Kedar
Date: March 2009

Title: The Obama Administration Reaches Out to Syria: Implications for Israel
Authors: David Schenker
Date: March 2009

Title: The Saudi Connection to the Mumbai Massacres: Strategic Implications for Israel
Authors: Jonathan Fighel
Date: February 2009

Title: The Future of the Two-State Solution
Authors: Giora Eiland
Date: February 2009

Title: What's Behind Western Condemnation of Israel's War Against Hamas?
Authors: Efraim Karsh
Date: January 2009

Title: The George Mitchell Appointment: The Tactics of "Symmetrical Negotiations" May Not Work in "Asymmetrical Conflicts"
Authors: Lenny Ben-David
Date: January 2009

Title: European Reactions to Israel's Gaza Operation
Authors: Tamas Berzi
Date: January 2009

Title: Averting Iranian Influence in Post-War Gaza: The Rehabilitation Issue
Authors: Shimon Shapira
Date: January 2009

Title: Saudi Arabia's Dubious Denials of Involvement in International Terrorism
Authors: Dore Gold
Date: October 2003

Title: Ten Years Since Oslo: The PLO's "People's War" Strategy and Israel's Inadequate Response
Authors: Joel Fishman
Date: September 2003

Title: Unilateral Separation as Roadmap Insurance
Authors: Gerald Steinberg
Date: August 2003

Title: The UN and the Assault on Israel's Legitimacy: Implications for the Roadmap
Authors: Anne Bayefsky
Date: July 2003

Title: Defensible Borders for Israel
Authors: Dore Gold
Date: June 2003

Title: The Global Epidemic of Illegal Building and Demolitions: Implications for Jerusalem
Authors: Justus Weiner
Date: May 2003

Title: Should Israel Now Send a Message to the Arab World?
Authors: Dan Diker
Date: May 2003

Title: The Psychological Framework of Suicide Terrorism
Authors: Irwin J. Mansdorf
Date: April 2003

Title: Does the International News Media Overlook Israel's Legal Rights in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict?
Authors: Dan Diker
Date: April 2003

Title: September 11: Its Implications for American Jewry
Authors: Steven Windmueller
Date: February 2003

Title: How to Help Palestinian Refugees Today
Authors: Scott B. Lasensky
Date: February 2003

Title: The Beleaguered Christians of the Palestinian-Controlled Areas
Authors: David Raab
Date: January 2003

Title: The Quartet, the Road Map, and the Future of Iraq: A Realistic Assessment
Authors: Gerald M. Steinberg
Date: December 2002

Title: Needed: Leadership for Growth
Authors: Yitzhak Klein
Date: November 2002

Title: Why are Israel's Public Relations so Poor?
Authors: Dan Diker
Date: October 2002

Title: Understanding the Breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
Authors: Lt. Col. Jonathan D.H.
Date: September 2002

Title: Legal Aspects of the Palestinian Refugee Question
Authors: Ruth Lapidoth
Date: September 2002

Title: Understanding American Christian Attitudes Regarding Jerusalem
Authors: David Raab
Date: August 2002

Title: The Destruction of the Temple Mount Antiquities
Authors: Mark Ami-El
Date: August 2002

Title: Who Killed Muhammad Al-Dura? Blook Libel — Model 2000
Authors: Amnon Lord
Date: July 2002

Title: Saudi Arabia, Stability, and International Islamic Terror
Authors: Mordechai Abir
Date: July 2002

Title: The Perverse Logic of French Politics
Authors: Shmuel Trigano
Date: June 2002

Title: The Islamic Arab Minority in the Jewish State
Authors: Zeidan Atashi
Date: June 2002

Title: The Broken Promise of the Democratic Peace: Israel and the Palestinian Authority
Authors:
Date: May 2002

Title: Israeli Arabs: Expectations and Realities
Authors: Gerald B. Bubis
Date: May 2002

Title: Poison: The Use of Blood Libel in the War Against Israel
Authors: Raphael Israeli
Date: April 2002

Title: Europe's Moral Attitudes Toward the Holocaust in Light of the Current Defamation of Israel
Authors: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Date: April 2002

Title: Whose Fault was the Failure of Camp David?
Authors: Saul Singer
Date: March 2002

Title: The Phalcon Sale to China: The Lessons for Israel
Authors: Jonathan Adelman
Date: March 2002

Title: The Way to Peace Emerged at Madrid: A Decade Since the 1991 Madrid Conference
Authors: Eytan Bentsur
Date: February 2002

Title: Israel's Political Map: After Cancellation of Direct Election of the Prime Minister
Authors: Haim Ramon
Date: February 2002

Title: From "Occupied Territories" to "Disputed Territories"
Authors: Dore Gold
Date: January 2002

Title: Armistice in Jerusalem Once Again?
Authors: Raphael Israeli
Date: January 2002

Title: Terrorism and Racism: The Aftermath of Durban
Authors: Anne F. Bayefsky
Date: December 2001

Title: Rediscovering Deterrence After September 11, 2001
Authors: Gerald M. Steinberg
Date: December 2001

Title: What Can Israel Do in the Global Disorder?
Authors: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Date: November 2001

Title: Beyond Political Terrorism: The New Challenge of Transcendent Terror
Authors: Jeffrey S. Helmreich
Date: November 2001

Title: The Druze in Israel and the Question of Compulsory Military Service
Authors: Zeidan Atashi
Date: October 2001

Title: Israel is not the Issue: Militant Islam and America
Authors: Dore Gold
Date: October 2001

Title: Russian Policy Toward the Middle East Under Yeltsin and Putin
Authors: Robert O. Freedman
Date: September 2001

Title: American Jewish Public Activity - Identity, Demography, and the Institutional Challenge
Authors: Sherry Israel
Date: September 2001

Title: Why Israel Rejects "Observers"
Authors: Saul Singer
Date: August 2001

Title: Journalistic License: Professional Standards in the Print Media's Coverage Media's Coverage of Israel
Authors: Jeff Helmreich
Date: August 2001

Title: Srebrenica: The Dutch Dabra and Shatilla
Authors: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Date: July 2001

Title: Israel Looks Over the Horizon: Responding to the Threats of Weapons Proliferation
Authors: Gerald M. Steinberg
Date: July 2001

Title: Anti-Semitism Revived: The Impact of the Intifada on Muslim Immigrant Groups in Western Democracies
Authors: Raphael Israeli
Date: June 2001

Title: "Aid for Peace" — An Exhausted Paradigm?
Authors: Saul Singer
Date: June 2001

Title: Untenable Linkages: Tying a Cessation of Palestinian Violence to an Israeli Settlement Freeze
Authors: Dore Gold
Date: May 2001

Title: The Sovereign Self: Jewish Identity in Post-Modern America
Authors: Steven M. Cohen, Arnold M. Eisen
Date: May 2001

Title: Jewish Life in Ukraine at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Part Two
Authors: Betsy Gidwitz
Date: April 2001

Title: Jewish Life in Ukraine at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Part One
Authors: Betsy Gidwitz
Date: April 2001

Title: Failure of Perception and Self-Deception: Israel's Quest for Peace in the Context of Related Historical Cases
Authors: Joel S. Fishman
Date: March 2001

Title: Apocalyptic Fears Now; Unforeseen Risks Tomorrow: Israel's Poorly Predicted Future
Authors: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Date: March 2001

Title: The Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians: A Rational Analysis
Authors: Yakir Plessner
Date: February 2001

Title: Jerusalem in International Diplomacy: The 2000 Camp David Summit, the Clinton Plan, and Their Aftermath
Authors: Dore Gold
Date: February 2001

Title: The Israel Swing Factor: How the American Jewish Vote Influences U.S. Elections
Authors: Jeffrey S. Helmreich
Date: January 2001

Title: "The Poor in Your Own City Shall Have Precedence": A Neo-Zionist Critique of the Katzir-Qaadan Decision
Authors: Gerald M. Steinberg
Date: January 2001

Title: Israel's Major Economic Challenge: Closing the Gap in the Field of Business Economics
Authors: Manfred Gerstenfeld
Date: December 2000

Title: American Evenhandedness in the Mideast Peace Process: Lessons From Camp David II and the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Authors: Saul Singer
Date: December 2000

Title: Factors Impeding the Implementation of Privatization
Authors: Yaakov Ne'eman
Date: November 2000

Title: The "Post-Secular" Era
Authors: Eliezer Schweid
Date: October 2000

Title: Interpretations of Jewish Tradition on Democracy, Land, and Peace
Authors: Gerald M. Steinberg
Date: October 2000

Title: The Emerging Threat of Iraq and the Crisis of Global Security
Authors: Richard Butler
Date: September 2000

Title: A New Paradigm For Arab-Israeli Peacemaking: A Comprehensive Regional System For Security and Cooperation
Authors: Abraham Tamir
Date: September 2000

Title: The Role of Islam in Contemporary South East Asian Politics
Authors: Colin Rubenstein
Date: August 2000

Title: Religion and the Public Square: Attitudes of American Jews in Comparative Perspective - Part Two
Authors: Steven M. Cohen
Date: August 2000

Title: Prime Minister Barak's First Year: Diplomacy and Politics
Authors: Zalman Shoval
Date: July 2000

Title: The Pope's Millennium Visit to Israel
Authors: Dan V. Segre
Date: June 2000

Title: Setting the Terms of Reference: Daniel J. Elazar's Impact on American Jewish Organizational Life
Authors: Gerald B. Bubis
Date: June 2000

Title: Middle East Missile Proliferation, Israeli Missile Defense, and the ABM Treaty Debate
Authors: Dore Gold
Date: May 2000

Title: The Reform of the Israeli Financial System and What Remains to Be Done
Authors: Asher Blass
Date: April 2000

Title: The End of the Post-Gulf War Era
Authors: Dore Gold
Date: March 2000

Title: Overthrowing Saddam Hussein: The Policy Debate
Authors: Max Singer
Date: March 2000

Title: The European Union and the Middle East Peace Process
Authors: Gerald M. Steinberg
Date: November 1999

Title: The Role of Politics in Contemporary Russian Antisemitism
Authors: Betsy Gidwitz
Date: September 1999

Title: Barak's Complex Foreign Policy Agenda
Authors: Gerald M. Steinberg
Date: July 1999

Title: Netanyahu's Economic Record
Authors: Eliyahu Kanovsky
Date: May 1999

Title: Israel's Relations with the Vatican
Authors: Aharon Lopez
Date: March 1999

Title: American Policy Toward Iraq and Iran in Clinton's Second Term
Authors: Robert O. Freedman
Date: March 1999

Title: Defining Limits on Religious Expression in Public Institutions: The Turkish Crisis Over Headscarves
Authors: George E. Gruen
Date: February 1999

Title: Saudi Arabia in the 1990s: Stability and Foreign Policy
Authors: Mordechai Abir
Date: September 1997

Title: Demarcating an Israeli-Palestinian Border: Geographic Considerations
Authors: David Newman
Date: July 1997

Title: After Hebron: Prospects for the Peace Process
Authors: Zalman Shoval
Date: March 1997

Title: Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism
Authors: Jacob M. Landau
Date: February 1997