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Barry Rubin

Barry Rubin is the director of the Global Research in International Affairs Centre (GLORIA) of the interdisciplinary University of Israel. He is editor-in-chief of the Middle East Review of International Affairs and author of The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East.

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“Ariel Sharon’s triumph”

by Barry Rubin

18 January 2006

The brain haemorrhage that affected Ariel Sharon plunged Israel’s politics into agitation. The outgoing Prime Minister was being presented as the winner of the coming elections leading his new party, Kadima. It was Sharon who made the party popular by seducing the right for his nationalism and (...)

“Sharon’s centrism the likely winner in Israel’s shake-up”

by Barry Rubin

1 December 2005

Due to the realignment of Israeli politicians and parties, Israel’s political life will suffer the most extraordinary change in the last 30 years. To understand what the consequences for the future of Israel, the region and the Israeli-Arab relations will be, is important. The Israeli (...)