Alon Ben-Meir
ARTICLES BY: Alon Ben-Meir
How the Ideological Siege Undermines the Peace Process
In my column two weeks ago, I addressed the question as to why past Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have failed, and last week I suggested that the...
Examining the Failure of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
No new format for peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians can succeed unless it carefully considers the reasons behind the failure of past negotiations,...
A Conducive Geopolitical Environment for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
The upheaval sweeping the Middle East might suggest that it will be extraordinarily difficult if not impossible to resume the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and reach a successful...
Ending the Occupation Will Help End Palestinian Terror
The Netanyahu government has conveniently and consistently separated the occupation of the West Bank from the repeated eruption of violence, insisting that the Palestinians’ unrest...
The Occupation Is at the Root of Current Israeli-Palestinian Violence
It was always a question of when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would violently erupt once again, which only proves that -- contrary to the prevailing views among a...
A Parallel Crescent to Stop Iran in Its Tracks
Anyone who has followed Iran’s behavior since the 1979 Revolution cannot escape the fact that Iran is bent on restoring some, if not much, of...
Netanyahu and Abbas Are Not Serious About Peace
Regardless of what Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Abbas stated in their speeches at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), neither is genuinely...
Inaction in Syria Has Cost the World Dearly, and Now We Must Fix It
What started as a civil war in Syria nearly five years ago has now evolved into an international crisis unmatched by any other since World...
Why Administrative Detention Weakens Israeli Democracy
Palestinian lawyer Mohammed Allan, who went on a hunger strike for 65 days to protest his indefinite detention in Israeli custody, was subsequently moved into...
Bibi and Abu Mazen Conduct Candid Conversation (PARODY)
The following conversation between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is fictitious. The setting: Bibi and Abu Mazen...
Israelis and Palestinians Cannot Make Peace on Their Own
The enduring impasse between Israel and the Palestinians in the peace negotiations, and their changing internal political dynamics, have made it impossible for them to...
The Israel-Hamas Truce Is an Opportunity in Disguise
Israel and Hamas are reportedly discussing a long-term truce. Although Israeli officials claim it is merely a rumor and that there are no direct or...
The World’s Deafening Silence on Syria is Appalling
The word tragic has often been used to describe the civil war in Syria, but it is a pale description of the raging madness on...
The Dismantling of Susiya is an Israeli Injustice
The pending order to demolish the small Palestinian village of Susiya in the southern Judean Mountains in the occupied West Bank represents the most blatant...
