Sharon's Strategic Legacy for Israel: Competing Perspectives Dan Diker  |  20/08/2008 Some Israeli opinion-makers, seeking to define Sharon's political legacy, are determined to transform him into a political dove due to his unilateral disengagement plan that pulled Israel out of Gaza. They claim that the "new" Sharon was willing to lead Israel in another major pullback - this time from at least 90 percent of the West Bank. This interpretation assumed the West Bank security fence would constitute Israel's eastern border. Read More >> Why Israel must now move from Concession-Based Diplomacy to Rights-Based Diplomacy Dan Diker  |  20/08/2008 Once Israel dropped its past reliance on a diplomacy based on its own rights and adopted a new concession-based diplomacy instead, its spokesmen essentially acquiesced to the Palestinian historical narrative. Read More >> America's Hamas Dilemma: Spreading Democracy or Combating Terrorism? Temp  |  20/08/2008 The Bush administration had not agreed for some time with the Israeli position that Hamas be excluded from the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections. At Princeton University on September 30, 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was absolutely clear that Palestinian violence could not co-exist with Palestinian politics in the future. She also reiterated that Hamas was a terrorist organization. Read More >>      Blogger in the Gulf takes a swing at Diker analysis         additional Details -