Sheikh Jarrah is the latest ‘single point of failure’ fiction
This is certainly not the first time that the “single point of failure” narrative has been wielded to explain a campaign of organized Palestinian or Arab-Israeli violence.
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian Elections
Parties, Polling, and Implications for U.S. Policy
Memos
Securing Peace in the Middle East After Trump
Dennis Ross Shany and I both agree that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was existential insofar as it embodied two national movements competing for the same space. Oslo was supposed to turn an existential...
Op-eds
It’s time to stop the Palestinian sports boycott of Israel
Jibril Rajoub's strategy to boycott and isolate Israel in sports had worked until this summer. But the reactions by FIFA and other bodies shows how weak his claims have always been.
Op-eds
Sharansky’s journeys
From prison to politics to an exodus from Africa
Op-eds
A separate peace in the Middle East
How it was achieved and what the “Palestinian cause” now requires
Op-eds
Boykott
Germany’s Battle Against the Delegitimization of Israel
Monographs
Why we must steer clear of the Lebanon aid trap
It’s time for Uncle Sam to draw the line
Op-eds
Book Review: “Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed”
Bar-Ilan University professor Klein had a front row seat for the collapse of the Oslo process, having advised the Israeli government when talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) imploded...
Op-eds
Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East
Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration
Op-eds
War by Other Means
A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS
Monographs
The Israeli–Palestinian Struggle, Continued.
Whenever the Israeli–Palestinian question arises in Washington, an assumption inevitably precedes it: the United States has an important and unique role to play in advancing peace between these two...
Op-eds
The Congressman Who Hated Israel
Before Ilhan Omar, there was Paul Findley
Op-eds
Palestinians’ ‘opportunity of the century’
Why they — or at least those who lead them — are not interested.
Op-eds
Abbas Appoints a New Prime Minister
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday appointed his long-time advisor, Mohammad Shtayyeh, to serve as the next Palestinian prime minister. Selecting Shtayyeh, a pragmatic Palestinian...
Policy Briefs
German Jews Slam German President for Praising Antisemitic Iranian Regime
“Why... after the Ayatollah Khamenei released a Holocaust denying video... did the president of Germany sent warm greetings to a regime that seeks Israel's destruction?"
Op-eds
Ireland’s surprise attack
New Irish legislation threatens Israelis, Palestinians and the Irish economy.
Op-eds
Arafat and the Ayatollahs
The PLO’s greatest single contribution to the Iranian Revolution was the formation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but the Palestinian leader’s involvement with Iran didn’t end there.
Op-eds
A modest Middle East detente
Arab states take a friendlier approach toward the enemy of their enemy.
Op-eds
Palestinians have mail
For years, smart and well-meaning “peace processors” have worked hard to find a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They’ve never come close. Commentators keen on being perceived as...