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| GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE FACE OF REVOLTS / KAROL CHWEDCZUK-SZULC September 2011 Political upheavals sweeping through the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Maghreb in the past few months have been reshaping geopolitical order in this region,
| | thus possibly complicating the situation of Israeli and regional security. From this perspective, the most important element of this “revolutionary domino” is Egypt. The provisional military council, which holds power, has declared that it would honor the peace agreement with Israel but no one can be sure how the situation evolves after elections scheduled for autumn.[english] | 
| THE POLICY OF POLAND TOWARDS A UNILATERAL ACT OF PROCLAMATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE / JERZY WÓJCIK The issue unilateral proclaimation of a Palestinian state is not a new idea. Yasser Arafat has already announced the proclamation of the state in a unilateral way by the failure of the conference in
| | Camp David in July 2000. Only Bill Clinton managed to persuade Arafat to postpone the decision of 13 September 2000., Two weeks later the Palestinian uprising - the Al-Aqsa Intifada braoke out. This problem will continue to grow and can divide European countries. So far, several South American countries officially recognize a Palestinian state. President Abbas leads, wide-ranging campaign to gain support for this idea. Poland must be prepared to generate a specific position on this matter.[polish] | 
| ARIEL SHARON DISENGAGEMENT PLAN - INTRODUCTION TO CONSIDERATION / JERZY WÓJCIK
February 2, 2004 Ariel Sharon shocked the world by announcing his peace plan known as an innovative Unilateral Withdrawal Plan (separation) from the Gaza Strip and West Bank (disengagement plan). In a press interview at the prestigious newspaper Haaretz, Sharon, I concluded that ...[polish] | |  | EUROPEAN UNION'S RESPONSE TO ISRAELI INTERVENTION IN THE GAZA / JOANNA DYDUCH Policy Papers no.5 - March 2009. In June 2008, after the another meeting of the Council of the European Union - Israel announced that the parties intend to deepen their mutual relations. The process would involve the intensification of diplomatic relations and to progressively increase the number of EU programs in which Israel would participate... [polish] | |  | BENYAMIN NETANYAHU - WHAT CAN WE EXPECT / JERZY WÓJCIK Policy Papers no.4 - March 2009. The Results of the elections in Israel is not a disappointment, but certainly not the most functional solution for any ruling party. Practically the same result (28% - 27%) of the two largest parties: Kadima and Likud makes if there is no coalition of the two major parties ... [polish]
| |  | GAZA STRIP - WHAT NEXT? / JERZY WÓJCIK Policy Papers no.3 - February 2009. Israeli intervention in Gaza ended. Of course, Hamas has been severely weakened, but the problem is by no means been resolved. First, effective elimination of the threat from Hamas requires a series of diplomatic efforts and international cooperation. [polish] |  | DETERMINANTS OF ISRAELI INTERVENTION IN GAZA / JERZY WÓJCIK Policy Papers no.2 - February 2009. Israeli intervention in Gaza in December 2008 definitely belong to a key moment in the Middle East. This event is of crucial importance within the meaning of both the peace process and the broader context of changes occurring in the region. [polish]
|  | SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE WAR IN THE GAZA / KAROL SZULC Policy Papers no.1 - February 2009. The turn of the 2008/2009 year brought us another installment of the Middle East conflict, this time in the form of bloody clashes in the Gaza Strip. The average observer of the situation was backfilled with abundant media relations "straight from the battlefield." Worldwide, active, group of supporters of both sides of the conflict, mainly in the form of public manifestation... [polish]
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| USUAL OR UNUSUAL? EUROPE RELATIONS ISRAEL / JOANNA DYDUCH Apparently Israel is for European countries, only one of meny countries of the Middle East. The small territorially, Israel, has no mineral resources, including the one, from the perspective of the world
| | economy's most important, namely oil. However, various factors, the team that makes the relationship of the Euro - Israel has a special character. Among those most strongly affect the mutual relations, replace the historical conditions and specific binding of on-the Jewish state with selected European countries. [PDF: 198 kb] [polish] »» | | 
| BLOOD RIVER. / KONSTANTY GEBERT Zionists and Hitler at first neglected, and Kassama. Although the Jewish press in Palestine with growing horror the Nazis march reported, soon after the election of Hitler as chancellor began to appear reassuring comments. | | This chapter comes from a new book of Konstanty Gebert "A Place in the sun. Israel's Wars" which will be published in spring 2008 by the publishing Prószyński i S-ka. [PDF: 245 kb] [polish] »» | 
| ISRAEL CAUSES OF INTERVENTION IN LEBANON IN JULY OF 2006: WHETHER HAD THIS HAPPEN? / JERZY WÓJCIK August 27, 2006 in a television interview Hassan Nasrallah - Hezbollah leader spoke the following words: "We did not think even one percent, that is | | kidnapping [2 Israeli soldiers] would lead to war at this time and of such a scale. If you ask me if I knew before 11 July, that this operation will lead us to war, or decide to leave it? Definitely answer: no, absolutely not "[PDF: 455 kb] [polish] »» | 
| ISLAMIZATION OF PALESTINIAN NATIONAL. / JAROSŁAW JARZĄBEK. A special place for the analysis of compounds of religion with politics, is certainly the Middle East region, with its incredible mix of both religions, as well as various political doctrines. | | Few in the world now find places where religious and political issues would be linked together so closely and exert on each other so overwhelming influence. [PDF: 249 kb] [polish] »» | 
| POLISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS. SAMPLE ANALYSIS OF FACTORS. / JOANNA DYDUCH Polish - Israeli relations are often treated as part of a broader problem, namely the Polish - Jewish relations. Subject of this article, however, requires to focus on Poland and Israel, and what connects these countries and what differentiate. | | Not forgetting that Israel's Declaration of Independence of May 14, 1948 is known as the Jewish state and refers to long Jewish tradition and history of the Diaspora, of its darkest cards such as the Holocaust. [PDF: 349 kb] [polish] »» | 
| POLISH AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE POLES BY THE ISRAELIS. / JOANNA DYDUCH The perception of one nation by another is an issue which lies in the area of interest not only politicians formulate the foreign policy of the state, intellectuals and researchers analyzing | | social phenomena, it is important for a particular national group, but also is an important factor in creating an individual identity. [PDF: 370 kb] [polish] »» | 
| MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THE SHAPING OF JEWISH IDENTITY IN ISRAEL / TOMASZ CEBULSKI This paper examines the general trends and turning points in construction of Jewish memory and identity in Israel as influenced by and based on the events of the Holocaust. | | Particular importance will be placedon slow and gradual evolution from the often rejected traumatic post-Holocaust memory, through the slow proc-ess of this memory’s social internalization and integration, to the present institu-tionalized memory, as a factor of growing identity. [pdf: 202 kb] [english] »» | 
| AGREEMENT IN MECCA - A CHANCE FOR REOPENING OF THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE? / RACHELA TONTA Palestinians with anxiety and tension waiting for the results of the talks the representatives of two warring political factions - Fatah and Hamas. Negotiations | | conducted with the participation of the King of Saudi Arabia, Abd Allah, in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, was yet another attempt to reach an agreement and end prolonged bloodshed. [PDF: 171 kb] [polish] »» | 
| SIGNIFICANCE OF THE JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN THE WEST BANK IN ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. / ARTUR BUJAK West Bank, which came under Israeli occupation as a result of the June war, soon became the arena of Israeli | | settlement policy. Both the proximity to the border with Jordan as well as the importance of the sites for religious Jews (the area of the West Bank is also an area called Judea and Samaria), has ensured that shortly after the war minister in the government Levi Eshkol, Allon Ygal announced the first plan to consolidate the Jewish presence in this area. [PDF: 167 kb] [polish] »» | SEE ALL... | | |
