Posts Tagged: Israel Peace Process
You Can’t Make Peace With Bad Leaders
JNS.org - On one of my first assignments abroad as a rookie journalist in the early 1990s, I found myself in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, just...
Where the Trump Administration Should Start on Israeli-Palestinian Peace
President-elect Donald J. Trump said during the campaign that he would “love” to broker a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Although he has been...
Top Netanyahu Aides: Israel Will Not Attend Paris Peace Conference
JNS.org - Israeli officials on Monday told France that the Jewish state would not participate in a French-led international conference aimed at restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace...
For Israelis and Palestinians, ‘Hell Is Truth Seen Too Late’
Senator Bernie Sanders’ call during the primaries for a new approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was on-point and necessary. However, his plea for the...
Peace Incentives for Israel and the Palestinians (PART TWO)
Note: For part one of this article, please click here. The international conference that was convened by France on June 3 in Paris to advance the...
Peace Incentives for Israel and the Palestinians
Unless distrust, insecurity and illusions are first addressed, no incentives -- however sweeping and compelling -- will motivate Israel and the Palestinians to make the critical concessions needed to...
A Movement to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been steadily deteriorating, making the prospect of reaching an agreement on the basis of a two-state solution ever more intractable. What...
The EU Flouts the Oslo Accords and Lobbies for the Palestinians
From Haaretz: The European Union sent a very harsh message to Israel a few days ago regarding the demolition of Palestinian structures in Area C of the...
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Breaking the Deadlock
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has rarely been so far from finding a resolution. Since the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas during the summer of...
13 Facts About the Israeli-Arab Conflict
1. Erroneous assumptions produce erroneous policies, as has been the case with all US initiatives towards the Palestinian issue, which the US foreign policy establishment erroneously...
Israel’s Democracy Is Not in Danger
Last weekend, the headquarters of a left-wing Israeli political organization caught fire. The hand-wringing started right away. Other leftist organizations put out emergency fundraising appeals...
Delusions of Israelis and Palestinians Are Destroying the Peace Process
The deadlock in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process appears to be illogical and unsettling, as a majority of Israelis and Palestinians realize that coexistence, whether under...
It’s Time to Drop the Quartet and Embrace the Arab Peace Initiative
During several meetings I recently had with EU officials in Brussels, they argued that it is time to revive the Middle East Quartet, which consists...
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...
