Jon Alterman

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  • Nov 8, 2023
    Israel’s army has a remarkable record of winning. It won conventional wars in 1948, 1967, and 1973; it forced the Palestine Liberation Organization to give up armed struggle in...
  • Sep 19, 2023
    American officials love diplomatic processes in the Middle East. From Camp David to Madrid, from Oslo to Geneva, to Shepherdstown and beyond, senior U.S. officials have tried for...
  • Jul 25, 2023
    The State of Israel is at the third major juncture in its history. The first was when it was created in May 1948, improbably reconstituting a polity that had been destroyed almost...
  • May 17, 2023
  • Jan 18, 2023
    Over the holidays, I had lunch with one of the eminences of Arab politics. A former revolutionary, he had spent decades working with Arab leaders and their non-Arab counterparts. He...