Mar 15 2013 - 9:47am A Strategy for US Engagement in the Middle East: Contain Threats, Embrace Dignity
March 15, 2013

ATFP's Hussein Ibish joins Michele Dunne and Barry Pavel of the Atlantic Council for a discussion of their new paper on US strategy towards the Middle East.

Mar 15 2013 - 9:43am This Is What the Challenges for Israel and Palestine Look Like
March 15, 2013

The future of Palestine, Israel and the rest of the Middle East will be determined more by an ongoing contest of ideas -- just as it was in Europe in the decades after World War II -- than by the exigencies of the present moment.

Mar 14 2013 - 10:27am Obama’s Israel Itinerary Includes Some Standard Stops, but Not Others
March 14, 2013

“It creates a sense of parity for the Palestinians,” said Ghaith al-Omari, the executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine. “It gives the visit a cultural component, rather than simply a couple of closed-door meetings with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.”

Mar 14 2013 - 9:36am Israel's Demographic Destiny
March 14, 2013

Israel can be Jewish and territorial -- but not democratic. Or it can be democratic and territorial -- but not Jewish. Or finally, it can be Jewish and democratic -- but not territorial. This third choice is the one that can conceivably lead to a two-state solution.

Mar 14 2013 - 9:30am The settlers will rise in power in Israel's new government
March 14, 2013

Netanyahu's new government, which will pour its resources into settlement expansion, is likely to force Israel into growing international isolation.

Mar 12 2013 - 12:08pm World Bank: Israel restrictions impede Palestinian economy
March 12, 2013

"Continued financial support by the donor community, and increased reform efforts by the PA to manage the current fiscal challenges must remain a high priority," said Mariam Sherman.

Mar 12 2013 - 12:04pm Hamas’s Desengaño With Morsi
March 12, 2013

Rhetoric on both sides notwithstanding, relations between Egypt and Gaza have become in every meaningful sense worse under Morsi than they were under Mubarak.

Mar 12 2013 - 12:00pm Obama tells Arab-American leaders trip will show commitment to statehood
March 12, 2013

ATFP Pres. Asali said he stressed in the meeting the importance of renewing Israeli-Palestinian talks. "Over the last period there has been a lot of deterioration, and the tide has to be stemmed," Asali said.

Mar 11 2013 - 10:20am The Pro-Palestinian Left's Hamas Blindspot
March 11, 2013

Many on the global left overlook the misdeeds of Hamas, which is, after all, Palestine’s version of the religious right, not because it has the correct values but because it has the correct enemies.

Mar 11 2013 - 10:13am On Questioning the Jewish State
March 11, 2013

The appropriate analogy would instead be between France’s right to be French (in the civic sense) and Israel’s right to be Israeli.


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