Abdullah in the middle
Why Jordan has not joined the Abraham Accords
Old City
Palestinian Terror Attack in Jerusalem Wounds Eight, Including Five Americans
A Palestinian terrorist on Sunday opened fire on a civilian bus near the Old City of Jerusalem, wounding eight bystanders, including five U.S. citizens. One of the wounded U.S. citizens was a pregnant woman from New York. Following an hours-long manhunt, the perpetrator turned himself in.
Flash Briefs
Andy Levin’s ‘Two-State Bill’ Won’t Support Middle East Peace
Levin’s bill, were it enacted, would never achieve its ostensible goal.
Op-eds
Why Hamas fights
A new book sheds light on Israel’s wars with Gaza’s rulers
Op-eds
Why Israel erupted
Distorted narratives about Arab evictions have become a proxy for the entire conflict
Op-eds
The forgotten refugees of the Middle East
Jews who were forced to flee from their homes in Arab lands
Op-eds
Germany stays mum over anti-Israel UN resolution
The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Germany “to declare its opposition to a draft UN Security Council resolution that would demand Israel’s return to its pre-June 1967 borders."
Op-eds
Two Palestinian dreams
The Trump plan is meant to foreclose one and facilitate the other
Op-eds
Palestinians’ ‘opportunity of the century’
Why they — or at least those who lead them — are not interested.
Op-eds
A brief history of Jew-hatred
It’s as old as the Judean Hills and remarkably diverse.
Op-eds
Ireland’s surprise attack
New Irish legislation threatens Israelis, Palestinians and the Irish economy.
Op-eds
Peace processing 2.0
Trump’s progress on the Palestinian-Israeli file
Op-eds
Why peace can’t be processed now
Decade after decade, one administration after another has set in motion what has been called a “peace process.” None has come close to ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict....
Op-eds
Reimagining a more realistic “peace process”
“The peace process” is the name we’ve given to decades of attempts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The reality: These diplomatic efforts have never made meaningful...
Op-eds
Germany Charges Palestinian With Murder of Christians Over Temple Mount Tensions
Germany’s federal prosecution charged a Palestinian man on Friday with murder and six counts of attempted murder. Ahmad A., 26, wanted “to kill as many German nationals...
Op-eds
The End of the Abbas Era
The closest the Israeli-Palestinian conflict got to an actual third intifada, or uprising, happened late this past month when Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ...
Op-eds
Throwing Israel to the U.N.’s wolves
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is, as its name suggests, an organization committed to jihad — against Isra...
Op-eds
Kerry’s Address: More Posturing Than Policy
Secretary of State John Kerry, in a speech...
Policy Briefs
The war against history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...
Op-eds
Words Have Consequences: Palestinian Authority Incitement to Violence
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