March 30th

The West Must Support Universal Values in the Arab World In Print by Ziad Asali - The Huffington Post (Opinion) - March 30, 2012 - 12:00am Over the past 14 months of uprisings in the Arab world, Iran has steadily lost influence throughout the Middle East. Recognizing this is crucial for understanding the way in which Palestine, Syria and other key strategic battlegrounds now play into Iranian calculations, and how new opportunities have emerged for both Arabs and the West. » Read more

March 28th

Bret Stephens' Crisis of Empathy In Print by Hussein Ibish - The Daily Beast - March 27, 2012 - 12:00am Sometimes crude binaries can be instructive, and it's possible to distinguish two different types of people: those who seek out generous and universalist empathy with others, and those who prefer the warm cocoon of tribal solidarity. » Read more

March 27th

Show, Don't Tell: Why the Apartheid Analogy Falls Flat In Print by Hussein Ibish - The Daily Beast (Opinion) - March 26, 2012 - 12:00am A series of recent articles have pointlessly debated whether or not Israel can accurately be described as “an apartheid state.” But the problem with the apartheid analogy is less its inaccuracy, and more that, however emotionally appealing some people may find it, it’s just not useful in ending the occupation and advancing the Palestinian cause. » Read more

A settlement boycott can work In Print by Hussein Ibish - NOW Lebanon (Opinion) - March 27, 2012 - 12:00am Peter Beinart’s recent call in the New York Times for Jewish Americans to boycott Israeli settlement goods has been met with angry responses from many Jewish Americans. This includes some who are opposed to the settler movement. The most important of these objections hold that a boycott cannot work because Jewish Americans won’t go along with such a program and there isn’t much to boycott anyway. Both arguments hold little water. » Read more

March 19th

Decisions in the Interregnum in Palestine and Israel In Print by Ziad Asali - The Huffington Post (Opinion) - March 19, 2012 - 12:00am The year 2011 will go down in history as the year when the two-state solution went into deep freeze. Yet even during this hibernation there is much that can, and indeed must, be done to prevent an even graver crisis. » Read more

March 15th

Match, Spark... In Print by Hussein Ibish - The Daily Beast (Opinion) - March 15, 2012 - 12:00am The recent flareup of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza has all the disturbing qualities of a foretaste of more bitter things to come. Most troublingly, this latest round of attacks and counterattacks, which achieved nothing for either side, brings us ever closer to a possible third Palestinian intifada. » Read more