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If a Two-State Solution Fails, What Next?
My latest report for Inter Press Service, this one is about a new poll commissioned by pollster Shibley Telhami. The poll examines American attitudes in the event of the failure of a two-state...
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Bibi’s Epic Fail
My latest piece at LobeLog reviews the failure of virtually all of Benjamin Netanyahu’s objectives during his trip to the United States last week. I strongly recommend it. I hope to have something up...
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Tragedy and Perfidy: The Figure of Mahmoud Abbas
An edited version of this article first appeared in LobeLog Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with U.S. President Barack Obama this week, following in the footsteps of Abbas and Obama...
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Framing Putin
The past month has been nostalgic for me. The crisis over Ukraine and Crimea has felt and sounded, in the media and common conversation, very much like the halcyon days of my youth when the Cold War...
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Israel, the US and the Palestinians: A Recipe for Failure
It’s easy to feel like one is trapped in some sort of alternate reality where the world is just a big funhouse of mirrors these days. After US Secretary of State John Kerry is greeted by Israeli Prime...
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A Fried Peace Process
There is a word in Hebrew that marvelously describes what Benjamin Netanyahu has turned both the Palestinian Authority and the John Kerry meets US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro in Tel Aviv, March...
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Obstacle: The US Role In Israel-Palestine
A slightly edited version of this article originally appeared at LobeLog, where I and many other foreign policy experts regularly Photo: US Secretary of State John Kerry leaves the US Ambassador to...
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Oslo Process: The Walking Dead
My latest at LobeLog reviewing John Kerry’s recent testimony before Congress and the ripples on the Israeli right in response to the collapse of the talks, at least for now. Also, Dimi Reider has a...
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Supreme Court To Rule On Explosive Jerusalem Passport Issue
The Israel-Palestine usually takes up a disproportionate amount of attention in two of the three branches of the US government. Now, the third is getting into the mix. The radical irresponsibility of...
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Reconciliation and Peace: The Latest Hamas-Fatah Deal
An edited version of this piece first appeared at LobeLog. The collapse of the U.S.-led talks between Israel and the Palestinians is now complete. In the wake of the latest agreement between...
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Was the Palestinian Reconciliation Deal a Mistake?
At +972 Magazine my friend and colleague, Larry Derfner, a former columnist for the Jerusalem Post, says he believes that by deciding to go forward with a third unity agreement with Hamas at this time,...
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Kerry Draws Israel Hawks’ Ire Amid Failed Talks
My report for Inter Press Service on the row that has erupted over John Kerry’s use of the word “apartheid” to describe one possible future for Israel.Filed under: Apartheid Tagged: American Jewish...
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A Tragedy of Errors: U.S. Incompetence in Israel-Palestine Talks, Part I
An edited version of this piece appeared at LobeLog. On May 2 Israel’s most widely read newspaper, Yediot Ahoronot, published an article that blows the lid off of the failure of United States Secretary...
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A Tragedy of Errors: U.S. Incompetence in Israel-Palestine Talks, Part II
An edited version of this piece appeared at LobeLog. If you missed Part I, check it out here. In part one of this piece, I began sketching the picture that emerges from the words of U.S. diplomats to...
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Toward A New Two-State Solution
The Oslo Process is dead. Does that mean that we must only consider single-state options to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict? I say no, and I outline what a practical and fair (two things Oslo...
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The Hamas-Likud Double Standard
This piece originally appeared at LobeLog. The Palestinian Authority installed its unity government today. The responses have been as telling as they were expected. For Palestinians, the development...
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The Lying Game: Failing in Gaza
Israel seems to be failing to make the (false) case that it is not trying to harm civilians in Gaza. People aren’t buying it this time. True, the politicians haven’t changed. But the public response...
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Israel Lobby Galvanises Support for Gaza War
My report for IPS News on the National Leadership Assembly for Israel, which I attended on Monday. A standing room only gathering of pro-Israel activists coming together to voice their unconditional...
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Ceasefire in Gaza: Where Things Stand
This article originally appeared at LobeLog. With a 72-hour truce apparently holding and Israel also apparently having ended its ground operation in Gaza, it seems a fair time to assess where things...
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Is This the Real Gaza Ceasefire?
Israel and Hamas have agreed to another ceasefire, and there seems to be some sense that this one will last. The terms of the agreement leave many issues up in the air, which tends to work strongly in...
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