The Political Education of Mahmoud Abbas
Co-written by Amir Tibon. When Israeli tanks besieged Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah in 2002, the Palestinian leader famously declared, “Oh God, grant...
Ariel Sharon
The Six-Day War and the 50-year occupation
Fifty years ago this week, the young state of Israel faced the threat of extermination – a second Jewish Holocaust in a single century. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stated candidly...
Op-eds
Analysis: German FM Fishes for Antisemitic Vote in Row with Israel
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s ongoing assaults on the legitimacy of the Israeli government may actually be about winning the federal election in September. In the latest...
Op-eds
Trump, Netanyahu to Reset US-Israeli Relations After Strained 8 Years
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Wednesday will mark a chance for the United States and Israel to renew a relationship that had turned tumultuous in t...
Op-eds
How to Worsen the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
The “peace process” between Israelis and Palestinians has ground to a halt. What should American and European leaders do? Try not to make the situation worse. That will be a...
Op-eds
The Death and Life of the Two-State Solution
On March 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won reelection, thanks in part to a desperate last-minute pledge to his right-wing base that the Palestinians would never get a state so lon...
Op-eds
Fait Pas Accompli
How bad is the nuclear deal the Obama administration is negotiating with Iran? The American public would not know the answer, had it not been for the speech tha...
Op-eds
Obama and the U.S. Interfere in Israeli Politics Far More Than the Other Way Around
The commentariat is buzzing over whether House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s to address a joint meeting of Congress in March represe...
Op-eds
The Long, Bloody Trail That Led to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
For years, Europe has failed to reckon honestly with radical Islam and anti-Semitism
Op-eds
Jerusalem, on a Knife’s Edge
Stabbing attacks and random acts of Palestinian terror have brought the violence in Gaza and the West Bank into the heart of Israel. This is not the Third Intifada. At l...
Op-eds
Ariel Sharon: Soldier, Strategist, Prickly Pear
Ariel Sharon was an intrepid soldier and a brilliant military strategist. He was a sabra, a word used to describe those born in the land of Israel but which literally means a “prickly pear&...
Op-eds
Unlikely Peacemakers
Sharon disengaged from Gaza because he wanted to disentangle the people he had spent a lifetime protecting from their nemesis.
Op-eds
A Far-Right Israeli Electorate?
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Israelis haven’t become radicals. They’ve just abandoned a delusion.
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Newest Threat
Lebanon’s Party of God is feeling heat from certain Shiites, who aren’t eager to serve as human shields again
Op-eds
Beinart’s Argument Was Already Debunked
As a further thought to Michael Rubin’s response to Joe Klein’s defense of Peter Beinart,...
Op-eds
The Historian, the Diplomat, and the Spy
How the experts see the threat posed by Iran’s rulers.
Op-eds
Is Germany a True Friend?
Next month, New York will host an event marking the 10th anniversary of another dark hour, the notorious UN-sponsored Durban world conference on racism, which became a platform for some of the wo...
Op-eds
The Virtue of Scandal
Israel's Neighbors Should Be So Lucky
Op-eds
Feeding the Hand that Bites You
Two years ago, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon led his country in a fateful decision to "disengage" from Gaza, uprooting 8,500 Jewish residents, many born in Gaza and some domiciled ther...
Op-eds
Israel and Egypt Have More in Common Than Ever
The modern nation of Israel is only 63 years old. But the relationship between Israelites and Egyptians goes back more than three millennia — surely one of the most venerable bilateral rela...