Yasser Arafat

Hold Hamas Accountable for Human-Shields Use During the May 2021 Gaza War

America’s Foreign Policy ‘Experts’ Are Projecting Their Own Failures Onto Jared Kushner

For the past four years, there was no greater laughingstock in the American foreign policy cognoscenti than Jared Kushner. A full-on consensus reigned that cast the previous administration’s Middle...

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.

Palestinian Elections

Parties, Polling, and Implications for U.S. Policy

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...

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.

Sharansky’s journeys

From prison to politics to an exodus from Africa

A separate peace in the Middle East

How it was achieved and what the “Palestinian cause” now requires

Boykott

Germany’s Battle Against the Delegitimization of Israel

Why we must steer clear of the Lebanon aid trap

It’s time for Uncle Sam to draw the line

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...

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

War by Other Means

A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS

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...

The Congressman Who Hated Israel

Before Ilhan Omar, there was Paul Findley

Palestinians’ ‘opportunity of the century’

Why they — or at least those who lead them — are not interested.

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...

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?"

Ireland’s surprise attack

New Irish legislation threatens Israelis, Palestinians and the Irish economy.

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.