With the U.S. now firmly in the pro-settler camp, nonviolent campaigns to impose a cost on Israel’s occupation matter more than ever.
Trump’s Israel Ambassador Pick Should Set Off Alarm Bells
David Friedman’s approach to the issue of peace is clear enough: Whatever Israel’s right-wing government wants, the United States should give.
No End in Sight for Israel’s Rightward Drift
But Israel’s security would be better served by leaders
committed to preserving Israel as a democratic state and engaging in serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
A Kumbaya Moment for the Middle East? Hardly.
Despite Washington’s move toward detente with Iran, other regional conflicts — especially in Israel-Palestine, where an “intifada of knives” is underway — are looking as volatile as ever.
Jim Crow in the Holy Land
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile, and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.
Netanyahu’s Victory Is Just as Bad as It Looks
The only silver lining to the Israeli prime minister’s surprisingly strong reelection victory is that Washington and Brussels might finally get fed up with him.
Recognizing Palestine
As more European governments line up to recognize a Palestinian state, Israel (and the U.S.) look more isolated than ever.
Israel-Palestine: Kerry’s Peace Talks Hit Separation Wall
Do the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks herald the end of the two-state solution? If so, what comes next?
Will Progress Follow Process in Israel-Palestine?
Secretary of State John Kerry has thrown himself back into the Middle East “peace process,” shuttling between various Middle Eastern capitals and trying to coax the Israeli government into reaching some kind of understanding with the Palestinian Authority. So far it’s...
Exactly Why Is President Obama Going to Israel?
To say the U.S. moved quickly to squash any expectation that the President’s visit to the Middle East might help resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict would be an understatement.