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The Palestinian Struggle Persists - Rami Khouri, Daily Star

Yesterday marked the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba of May 1948, when Israel was established and Palestinians experienced the combination of exile and occupation that st...

Obama's Foreign Policy Failures - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

President Barack Obama ran as the anti-George Bush candidate. So it is ironic that his signature achievement overseas - the killing of Osama bin Laden - is one Bush would have b...

Palestinian Hunger Strike a Political Weapon - Jerusalem Post

The hunger strike being carried out by the Palestinians should be viewed in its context as a political tool, much as Gilad Schalit was used as a bargaining chip to obtain the relea...

Under Netanyahu, Israel Stronger Than Ever - Fareed Zakaria, WaPo

While incumbents around the world are struggling to hold on, one is thriving. By bringing the rival Kadima party into his ruling coalition, Benjamin Netanyahu has become “king of...

Can Mighty Israel Make Peace? - Shmuel Rosner, Rosner's Domain

When someone like Fareed Zakaria compliments someone like Binyamin Netanyahu one knows trouble is coming....

Is Confederacy the Answer in Mideast? - Ronald Tiersky, Jerusalem Post

Palestinians know approximately what they will have to accept. Finding the least bad solution consonant with defeat is their unenviable task....

Big Fish vs. Little Fish in Israeli Politics - The Economist

Mr Netanyahu's previous coalition partners, mainly rightist and religious parties, will stay put for now in what the prime minister proudly describes as the largest-ever Israeli ...

New Unity Gov't Is Smart Politics - Evelyn Gordon, Commentary Magazine

Though Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents were quick to dub his latest political move a cynical ploy, the Israeli prime minister's surprise formation of a unity government with Kadima...

Salam Fayyad: A Palestinian Reformer's Downfall - Ben Birnbaum, TNR

In a sense, circumstances have taken Fayyad back in time - from the prime minister who would lead his people to independence to the finance minister struggling to balance the boo...

A Federated State for Israelis and Palestinians - Jay Bushinsky, J'lem Post

If anyone gains from the national election likely to take place in early September, it probably will be incumbent PM Netanyahu....

Christians in and Out of the Holy Land - Ilan Troen, Jerusalem Post

Bob Simon of CBS placed the blame for Christians leaving Palestine squarely on Israel....

Don't Give Up on Mideast Peace - Jimmy Carter, New York Times

The current focus of leaders in Washington and Jerusalem on Iran has obscured the near-death of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and the inevitable catastrophe toward w...

Concession on 1967 Borders Is Last-Ditch Effort - The National

Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the old saying goes. And with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resolutely stamping out hopes of a negotiated two-state s...

Israel's New Strategic Environment - George Friedman, Stratfor

Israel's fundamental strategic problem is that its national security interests outstrip its national resources, whether industrial, geographic, demographic or economic....

UN Probe Must take West Bank Out of Israeli Hands - Haaretz

No UN investigative committee is needed to understand that the West Bank belongs to another people and its lands are not available to a Jewish and democratic state....

A March of Folly to Jerusalem - Ron Prosor, Jerusalem Post

Some of the world's most notorious terrorists, tyrants and radicals will attempt to violate Israel's sovereignty....

New Season of Protest Challenges Israel and Abbas - Tony Karon, Time

Israel is bracing for trouble, Friday, as Palestinians plan to mark their annual Land Day commemoration with mass peaceful protests that will include marches on Jerusalem and oth...

Iron Dome's Crucial Gaza Test - Leor Sapir, Commentary Magazine

Iron Dome's success in Gaza might give Nasrallah and his Iranian patrons a good reason to reconsider....

What if the Palestinian Authority Collapses? - Yossi Alpher, Bitter Lemons

The Palestinian Authority could conceivably disappear in a variety of ways. It could collapse due to financial insolvency, as PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has recently warned. ...

Is the Brotherhood Moderating Hamas? - Jonathan Tobin, Contentions

During the weekend, the New York Times reported that the Muslim Brotherhood, a rising force in post-Mubarak Egypt, is exerting pressure on its Hamas allies to do what is necessar...

Occupation Won't Stop Rockets - Jonathan Rosen, Jerusalem Post

One of the most oft-repeated arguments against Ariel Sharon’s decision to disengage from the Gaza Strip in 2005 is that this decision resulted in mounting Palestinian rocket fire...

The Many Roads to Palestine - Crown Center for Middle East Studies

In recent months, news of Palestinian internal politics has been dominated by the Fatah-Hamas unity deal and the possibilities for its success or failure. In this Brief, Dr. Peter ...

Why Israel Is Not an Apartheid State - Peter Beinart, ZionSquare

We should reserve "apartheid" for countries that deny an entire ethnic, racial or religious group the right to citizenship or the right to vote. Israel isn't one of them....

Beinart Solution: Punish Israelis to Change Palestinians - David Frum

The solution Peter offers to this dilemma: punish Israelis in order to change the Palestinians. It's not a very good plan....

Gaza's Strategic Repercussions - David Horovitz, Times of Israel

I t was just a short phrase, almost lost in the chief of staff’s stream of responses to reporters’ questions on Tuesday as four days of Israel-Gaza cross-border hostility woun...

The Failed Gaza Experiment - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Magazine

This past weekend, southern Israel was hit by more than 200 rockets flying over the border from Hamas-controlled Gaza. Dozens of the missiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome miss...

How Obama Sold Out to Israel - Peter Beinart, Newsweek

Bibi was coming again, and the White House was determined: this visit would not play out like the last one. On Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's previous trip to Washington, Obam...

Will 'Iron Dome' Embolden Israel Against Iran? - Karl Vick, Time

Another round of fighting broke out over the weekend between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip. It was the usual thing, only more so: Until Sunday morning, only milita...

Thank You, Iron Dome - Alex Fishman, Ynet News

Without innovative anti-rocket system, IDF would be operating inside Gaza by now....

Building Palestinian Prosperity - Joffe & Romirowsky, National Post

The Palestinian cause has never been more marginalized than it is today. That was the message conveyed by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in a recent meeting in Ramallah....

A 'One-State Solution' for Suckers - Amir Taheri, New York Post

Why would anyone promote a one-state solution when majorities both in Israel and among Palestinians seek a two-state one?...

Hamas Comes in from the Cold - Michael Broning, Project Syndicate

In the wake of revolutionary change in the Middle East, the forces of political Islam have scored one electoral victory after another. As the West grapples with the rapid rise of ...

Moving Backward in Palestine - Houriya Ahmed, NOW Lebanon

After a year in which Arabs have fought and died for democracy, the Palestinian Territories seem to be the one place in the region where autocracy is on the ascendancy. The rec...

Hamas on Speed Dating Circuit - Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

As the group makes new friends in Egypt and Turkey, will it leave its old friend Iran behind? Will it modify its positions on peace talks with Israel and the two state solution? ...

Reality of Hamas-Fatah Unity - Ramzy Baroud, Gulf News

There is a chasm separating leaders from the everyday issues and struggles of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories....

Israel Can't Kick the West Bank Settlement Drug - Haaretz

The initiative to encourage the settlements and defend the outposts, like the moves to dodge diplomatic negotiations, make it hard to spot the difference between PM Benjamin Neta...

Hamas and Fatah: A Mideast Muddle - Washington Post

If it does go forward, the Palestinian reconciliation will produce mostly negative results, at least in the short term....

A Most Cynical Palestinian 'Union' - Amir Taheri, New York Post

Israel should be concerned, because the Palestinian accord may serve as a device for making Hamas acceptable to the outside world....

Palestine Must Choose: Unity or Peace? - Jerusalem Post

So long as Hamas continues to hold to its commitment to violent struggle, refuses to recognize Israel and rejects past peace agreements, it will be impossible to develop formal t...

Moves Toward a Palestinian Spring - Sydney Morning Herald

The potential benefits for the peace process of a unified Palestinian voice are obvious. Incoherence plays into the hands of those opposed to a national homeland for this long st...

Arab Spring May Benefit Israel - Jonathan Schanzer, Jerusalem Post

To be sure, the Great Arab Revolt could still produce regimes that threaten Israel. But not yet....

Israel & Palestine: Toddling to Talks About Talks - The Economist

Palestinians and Israelis are talking again - but have yet to decide what about....

The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post

Today's anti-Semitism is predicated on preferring Palestinian and pan-Arab nationalism to Jewish nationalism....

The Case for United Jerusalem - Nathan Diament, The Atlantic

Proponents of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often insist that the only way to resolve competing claims over the holy city of Jerusalem is to divide i...

The 'Invented People' Stand Little Chance - Robert Fisk, The Independent

In the United States, where Netanyahu received so many standing ovations from a Congress that apparently thought it was the Knesset - far more ovations than he would ever have re...

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