Leon Hadar

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Leon Hadar in a Washington-based journalist, analyst and author, focusing on global affairs. A former research fellow with the Cato Institute, he is the author of, Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (2005, Palgrave Macmillan). He graduated from the schools of journalism and international affairs at Columbia University and holds a PhD in international relations from American University.


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It’s Sunny in Nicosia—Why Not in Jerusalem?

It’s Sunny in Nicosia—Why Not in Jerusalem?

So you feel worn-out by the never-ending “peace process” involving two

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Morality Tales

Morality Tales

Suggesting that movie director Woody Allen, who has abandoned the Big Apple and is

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What if We Leave the Middle East? (We Won’t Be Missed)

We’re all familiar with this cliché-ridden story line. A successful husband dumps

The Past Is Another Country—Counter-factual History and the Buchanan Controversy

The Past Is Another Country—Counter-factual History and the Buchanan Controversy

counter-factual scenarios are very intriguing, history doesn’t flow in some linear

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Israel’s Big Dick

Israel’s Big Dick

I’m not a great fan of Adam Sandler who always seems to be doing an impersonation of

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The Evil of Banality

I love politics and movies. So it’s probably not surprising that I enjoy political

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Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Cold War

Indiana Jones was born in 1899 which would make him 102-year old on September 11, 2001

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Real Men Don’t Get Tenure

Real Men Don’t Get Tenure

As someone who wasted a few years of his life teaching in undistinguished academic

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Global Hybrids Go Home

During the height of the globalization age in the late 1990s, many leading Zeitgeist