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...
Ehud Barak
The Flexible-Fuel Solution
Co-authored by Anne Korin Negotiators in Geneva appear to be sleepwalking into a Sunni–Shia nuclear arms race, so a bad neighborhood — as former Israeli prime...
Op-eds
Forget the Knesset. I’ll See You at The Hague.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds no illusions regarding next week’s general election in Israel. He knows that in an election cycle preoccupied wi...
Op-eds
A Baleful Peace Process
To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...
Op-eds
The Secret History of Hezbollah
Thirty years ago last month, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of the U.S Marines and French paratroopers stationed at the Beirut airport, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 Frenchmen. It wasn&rsquo...
Op-eds
One-Year After ‘Pillar of Defense,’ Hamas is on its Heels
By David Barnett One year ago Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Pillar of Defense (PoD) in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The largely aerial assault began...
Policy Briefs
Is Turkey Abetting Iran?
David Ignatius of the Washington Post...
Op-eds
Israel Reportedly Strikes Multiple Targets in Syria in Recent Days
By David Barnett The Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck at least one target inside Syria between Thursday evening and Friday morning....
Op-eds
Iran and Israel Fight, Lebanon Loses
It’s been more than two weeks since the Israeli airstrike in Syria against the arms convoy headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Bits of information, coupled with ominous ...
Op-eds
Exhuming Yasser Arafat
Khaled Mashal is known to the world as the leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. What is less well known is that Israel once saved the man’s life — after trying to kill him...
Op-eds
Hamas Won?
A week after the ceasefire concluding Israel’s eight day campaign against Hamas, Operation Pillar of Defense, there is some debate as to who came out on top. The way one judges the outcome...
Op-eds
Winners And Losers
A ceasefire was announced between Isra...
Op-eds
How Gaza Changes the Game
A ceasefire may be imminent, but the fallout is just beginning. What’s next for Iran, Egypt, and the U.S.
Op-eds
Revealed: Why Israel Delayed D-Day on Iran
When Benjamin Netanyahu stood up at the United Nations General Assembly last September with a cartoonish drawing of a bomb designed to show how close Iran was getting nuclear weapons, close obser...
Op-eds
Israel’s Not So Empty Threats
In September 2010, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote a brilliant feature in the Atlantic in which he forecast Israel's "point of no return" on Iran — the article's ti...
Op-eds
‘UK, France, Germany Urge EU to Up Iran Sanctions’
Britain, France and Germany called on the European Union to impose fresh sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, AFP reported late Sunday, citing diplomatic sources. An EU dipl...
Op-eds
A Palestinian Spring
Here's what you need to know about the protests in the West Bank.
Op-eds
Why Crunch Time is Coming for Israel and Iran
In recent months, expectations of a coming Israeli pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear installations have become increasingly hyped in the media and the public domain. There is now a w...
Op-eds
Is Israel Really Preparing for an Attack on Iran?
The question of whether Israel is on the brink of a strike against Iran periodically resurfaces as the Persian country’s march to a nuclear weapon continues unabated and Israeli leaders ind...
Op-eds
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ali Khamenei