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KFC Delivery Uses Gaza Smuggling Tunnel - Marya Hannun, Passport

Cement, cigarettes, and sugar are just a few of the goods transported through the many underground tunnels connecting Egypt and the blockaded Gaza Strip, which have ...

Netanyahu's Secret Palestinian Talks - Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel

Israel and the Palestinian Authority tried to conduct backchannel negotiations, or at least initiate them, in late 2010 and early 2011 in a series of secret meetings between the pr...

China's Intriguing Palestine Proposal - Rami Khouri, The Daily Star

I personally welcome this move, regardless of how we measure its chances of success at the moment. Chinese diplomacy is the exact opposite of Israeli state behavior – it is d...

Stephen Hawking Should Go to Israel - and Gaza - Jonathan Kay, Nat'l Post

Here's a suggestion for Hawking -- which I offer on the (admittedly thin) conceit that he might read advice offered to him by a Canadian opinion writer: Go to Israel. Attend the co...

Drought Is Ripping the Arab World Apart - Mitch Ginsburg, Times of Israel

Syria is 85 percent desert or semi-arid country. But it has several significant waterways. The Euphrates runs in a south-easterly direction through the center of the country to Ira...

Why China Is Interested in Mideast Peace - David Cohen, China Power

Given the lengths to which Xi has gone to distance himself from his predecessor, I think it is worth considering the possibility that this Middle East push is aimed at repeating th...

Palestinians Are the Threat to Peace - Gil Troy, The Daily Beast

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is right, er, I mean correct. He recently reiterated his willingness to negotiate with the Palestinians—without preconditions—...

Google Recognizes 'Palestine' - Elias Groll, FP Passport

First the United Nations, now Google. On Thursday, the Palestine News Network noticed that the Internet giant had changed the tagline for the Palestinian edition of its search engi...

Palestinian Authority Stifling Free Speech - Vivian Bercovici, The Star

Palestinian leaders have made a habit of threatening to sue journalists who don’t agree with them....

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox: Key to Mideast Peace? - Jon Freedland, Guardian

Israel's ultra-orthodox parties -- so long deemed part of the hawkish right -- might just unlock the two-state solution....

Another Nail in the Two-State Solution's Coffin - Tom Friedman, NY Times

On April 13, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of the Palestinian Authority resigned. It was an easy development to miss, but not one to be ignored. It was very bad news, because Salam F...

Why a Palestinian State Needs Israel - Adam Mallerman, The Commentator

The Palestinians, badly treated by the Arab world, must turn to Israel to build a lasting future....

Israel Will Sorely Miss Fayyad - Dov Weissglass, Ynet News

In late June 2002, I received a phone call from Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's national security advisor, who told me that a new finance minister: had been appointed i...

Why Salaam Fayyad Failed - Jerusalem Post

From the beginning there were ominous signs that Fayyad’s pragmatic approach to state-building would fail....

Israel at 65 - Jerusalem Post

The tension – and cross-fertilization – of old and new is not the only paradox of the Jewish state....

Israel Is a Country Running from Its Future - Haaretz

The State of Israel is a success story. But there is no chance that it will realize the Zionist vision if it does not protect, with all its power, the principles of democracy....

The End of the Fayyad Era? - Matt Duss, The American Prospect

What does the Palestinian prime minister's resignation mean for the future of the peace talks?...

Factoring Hamas into the Peace Process - Nathan Miller, Times of Israel

Many in the West use the idea that successful negotiations will eventually sideline Hamas as a convenient excuse to ignore the steps that should be taken to counter them today. Ira...

Obama, Kerry Need New Mideast Peace Map - David Newman, J'lem Post

The Oslo map looks more like a piece of Swiss cheese, full of enclaves and exclaves, with bypass roads linking the Jewish settlements to each other and effectively cutting off any ...

New Israeli Gov't Will Support Settlements - Geoffrey Aronson, Al Monitor

It promises to be the most unambiguously partisan in favor of Jewish settlement in the occupied territories of any of its predecessors. Acting so will be no mean achievement, given...

President Obama's Mideast Fantasies - Ira Chernus, TomDispatch

Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his eloquent words. U.S. and Israeli journalists called it a dream tri...

Palestinian Stone Throwing Is Murderous - Jerusalem Post

In August 2009, Arik Karp, 59, died when a gang of young men beat him viciously on Tel Baruch Beach in north Tel Aviv. Almost two years later the Tel Aviv District Court convicted ...

What Really Happened in Jerusalem - Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post

So what was the point of Obama's Jerusalem speech encouraging young Israelis to make peace, a speech the media drooled over? It was mere rhetoric, a sideshow meant to soften the im...

Israel and Turkey Let Bygones Be Bygones - Washington Post

Rapprochement between Turkey and Israel, two regional powers with stable democratic governments, has a compelling logic at a time when the Middle East is gripped by war and sectari...

Israel Mustn't Go to War over Golan - Haaretz

As fighting in Syria occasionally leaks across the border, Israel must not make hasty decisions....

In Mideast, Obama Knocks It Out of the Park - Frida Ghitis, CNN

They're bringing down the American flags in Jordan and Israel and putting them back into storage after they got slammed in a sudden sandstorm during the last part of President Bara...

Has Israel Forgotten That It's in the Mideast? - Tom Friedman, NY Times

Rockets arrive from Gaza in the morning and venture capital from London in the afternoon. Israel’s ability to live as if it were disconnected from the rest of the region is impre...

President Obama Gets Real on Israel - David Frum, National Post

Here's the problem in its truest form. The Palestinian problem is not a problem about the region or about coexistence between Muslims and the West. It’s a problem that raises...

Following America Is a Dizzying Endeavor - Rami Khouri, The Daily Star

Following U.S. policy in the Middle East is a dizzying endeavor, as I was reminded this week while monitoring President Barack Obama’s visit to the region, the commemoration ...

Nice Speech, Mr. President - Now What? - Daniel Levy, Foreign Policy

So far so good, Mr. President. Great speech, but what next? The visit has offered nothing new on the programmatic side, no plan for going forward. My hunch is that Obama knows that...

Left, Right Both Get Obama Israel Speech Wrong - Jon Tobin, Commentary

In the absence of any peace proposal that will hinge on American pressure on Israel to make concessions, nothing will come of Obama’s peace advocacy. Obama’s critics on the rig...

Obama Goes Over Netanyahu's Head in Speech - David Rothkopf, CNN

Any great speech about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process should leave everyone feeling a bit uncomfortable. Given that all involved have contributed to the troubled situation o...

Obama Finally Wakes Up to the Real Middle East - Jerusalem Post

The vast majority of Israelis share the dream of seeing both Israelis and Palestinians flourish in free, democratic states of their own. Unfortunately, the majority of Palestinians...

Obama Proves to Arab World He's No Honest Broker - The Daily Star

This week’s visit by Barack Obama to Israel was supposed to be a relatively low-key affair, with the American president offering no new peace initiatives. But Obama has managed t...

How Obama Became Netanyahu - Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast

By refusing to challenge Bibi's approach to the Palestinians, Obama has made it his own....

Obama Israel Visit Offers Little Hope for Palestinians - The National

The relentless expansion of settlements across the occupied West Bank is reaching a tipping point, after which it will become impossible to drag Israel back to a two-state solution...

Why Obama Should Visit Arafat's Grave - Daoud Kuttab, Al Monitor

One of the reasons given for why the American president might want to skip Ramallah is the fact that if he visits the secured and natural offices of the Palestinian president he wi...

Israel's Fate Is Now in Obama's Hands - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

When President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet this week for what will almost certainly be an intense and lengthy conversation about Iran’s nuclea...

Obama's Mideast Trip To-Do List - Washington Post

Probably Mr. Obama won’t fully patch his difference with Mr. Netanyahu on red lines for Iran. While Mr. Obama has said he won’t allow Tehran to produce a bomb, the Israeli lead...

This Is Where the Third Intifada Will Start - Ben Ehrenreich, NY Times

On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi’s house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with friends and relatives smoking and sipping coffee, waiti...

Obama Must Keep the Two-State Solution Alive - The Economist

WHEN Barack Obama sets foot in Jerusalem next week, he will know that Israelis view him as the least friendly incumbent president of the United States in living memory. His relatio...

American Sympathies for Israel Match Record High - Lydia Saad, Gallup

As President Barack Obama prepares to visit Israel, the Palestinian West Bank, and Jordan next week -- his first trip to the region as president -- Americans' sympathies lean heavi...

Did Palestinians Murder Baby Omar? - Walter Russell Mead, American Int

Until the international community stops thinking of both Israelis and Palestinians as irrational thugs and savages locked in a senseless conflict, and until it realizes that in man...

Israel Scapegoated Once Again - New York Daily News

Baby Omar's father should direct his wrenching questions to Hamas....

Mr. Obama Goes to Israel - Thomas Friedman, New York Times

In case you haven't heard, President Obama leaves for Israel next week. It is possible, though, that you haven't heard because it is hard for me to recall a less-anticipated trip t...

Two States for Two Peoples: The Sequel - Stephen Walt

Obama's trip is bound to generate more discussion about how to get the peace process started again, along with the usual back-and-forths about which side is more responsible for th...

More Proof of Israel's Restraint - National Post

On Nov. 14, 2012, the Israeli Defense Forces began Operation Pillar of Defense, aimed at Hamas’ Gaza-based network of rocket batteries and terrorist hideouts. Soon after the conf...

The End of the Two-State Solution - Benjamin Birnbaum, The New Republic

Today, the essential conditions for a peace process remain. Majorities of Israelis and Palestinians continue to support a two-state solution. It remains possible to draw a border t...

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