by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. On 1 May 2004, ten new countries were admitted into the European Union. Eight of these were Central and East European: the four Visegrad countries, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia; … [Read More]
Category Archives: 2005
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. “When Prime Minister Ehud Barak told me that I was going to be appointed Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, I felt he had given me a very challenging job. I have … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. Andrei Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is currently writing a book on anti-Americanism. Markovits … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. “In the past decades Europe has tried hard to impact Arab-Israeli peace negotiations and diplomatic processes in the Middle East. One has to ask oneself why it has been unable to make a … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld . From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. The first Israeli ambassador to Mauritania, Freddy Eytan, was stationed in Paris in the 1970’s as an Israeli diplomat and in the 1980’s as a journalist. He has observed French Middle … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. Retired Israeli diplomat Avi Pazner says that the best way to gain clear insight into European-Israeli relations is by looking at watershed events over the past six decades. Pazner, a former ambassador … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. Jeffrey Gedmin, an American, is director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin. In his view, four factors play a role in Europe’s increasingly anti-Israeli sentiment: Europe’s attempt to assuage guilt over … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. “The growth of the European Union and the extension of a democratic consensus based on antifascism and antiracism should have created the best of all possible worlds for Jews. Europe has accepted … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. Shmuel Trigano, professor of sociology at the University of Paris-Nanterre, considers that the development of the European Union has created major problems for the Jewish people. “It has gradually become clear that … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld (2005). Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss. “Europe’s voting record at the United Nations shows a longstanding anti-Israeli bias,” says Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. Many … [Read More]