Posts Tagged: Israel Peace
Will Trump’s Peace Plan Lead to Major Violence? Unlikely.
As the region absorbs the details of the Trump administration’s peace plan to tackle the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the IDF took the preemptive step of...
The Palestinians’ Bluff Has Been Called
JNS.org - Donald Trump’s Middle East “deal of the century” offers the Palestinians a state. They have rejected it and threatened instead to ramp up...
Jordan: A Realistic Two-State Solution
A Palestinian state already exists. It’s called Jordan. There is no need for another one. The Oslo Accords removed the “Jordanian option” from the range of...
The US Peace Plan Is a Boon for Israel
President Donald Trump had already proven that he was an unprecedented friend of Israel when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, moved the US embassy...
Palestinians and Arabs Could Benefit So Much From Peace With Israel
When US President Donald Trump stated that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel, he was merely acknowledging what everyone already knew. Jerusalem has been...
Truth-Telling to Advance Peace
JNS.org - Critics of the Trump administration’s determination that settlements “are not per se illegal” assert that it is detrimental to the possibility of peace....
There Is Still No Palestinian Partner for Peace
JNS.org - In his annual speech to the UN General Assembly, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas warned that if Israel annexed the Jordan Valley,...
An Israeli Victory Is Necessary if Peace Is to Be Achieved
It is usually wiser to work for a solution to a conflict than try to achieve victory. But in some conflicts, the objectives of the...
There Won’t Be Peace Until the Palestinians Accept Israel
Amnesia and willful ignorance seem to be running amok in today’s political arena, especially when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians -- mostly due...
Abbas Admits He Can’t and Won’t Make Peace — Again
If a report in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar is true, we once again learned this week what we’ve known for years -- that Mahmoud Abbas...
The Folly of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and numerous US officials have all warned that both sides of the forthcoming Trump administration's “deal of the century” are going...
Did Netanyahu Turn Down a Saudi Peace Offer?
Barak Ravid has a phenomenal scoop, published in Axios: On the last day of the 2014 Gaza War, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a secret meeting...
‘Financial Times’ Oslo Obituary Omits Palestinian Rejection of Peace Offers
The Financial Times contextualizes its January 4 review of two recent books (Preventing Palestine, by Seth Anziska, and Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin...
The Israel-Hamas Deal: Escape From Oslo
Both domestic and external opponents of the crystallizing deal between the Israeli government and Hamas view the nascent agreement as antithetical to the two-state solution....
