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Why We Hate Them
In this week’s column at Souciant you can see the second entry in my series on the causes and effects of the 1967 war and beginning of the occupation, as we near the 45th anniversary of those events....
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Lessons for Obama
In this week’s piece at Souciant, I look at the lessons Bill Clinton’s mistakes at Camp David II hold for Barack Obama today. Many of the conditions have changed, of course, but Clinton’s mis-steps, as...
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Lost in the Desert
The various UN General Assembly speeches this week, along with some other recent developments in Israel, Iran and the Occupied Palestinian Territories indicate some shifts in the US approach to the...
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One State of Mind
In the last of three pieces, starting with an article at LobeLog earlier this week and one at this site yesterday, I look at the need for advocacy for various one-state formulations to be part of the...
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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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From 2006: Honest Brokers? US Presidents and the Middle East
I have discovered an article of mine from 2006 still online. It is a review I wrote for the journal Global Understanding of William Quandt’s book, Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab–Israeli...
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The Palestinian Refugee Issue is Not Going to Resolve Itself
When I started getting serious about action on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the associated US foreign policy, I found it imperative to convince people that the Oslo Accords were doomed to fail....
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Old Settlement Wine in New Peacemaking Bottles
During his meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry two weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered “a package of meaningful measures in the West Bank.” Although Netanyahu was...
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The War that Changed the Middle East
Fifty years have passed since Israel’s stunning military victory over the countries surrounding it in 1967. War transforms countries, regions, the entire planet as no other event can. And perhaps no...
View ArticleAOC ignites a debate about Yitzhak Rabin
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to set off a firestorm every time she goes near the issue of Israel-Palestine. It happened again last week. AOC had agreed to speak at an event hosted by Americans for...
View ArticleBook Review: “Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli...
Published today at Responsible Statecraft is my review of Prof Jerome Slater’s new book, Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020. Slater goes through a huge...
View ArticleRTFP Deep Dive: Time To End The Two-State Gatekeeping
In the early morning hours of January 19, an Israeli military force came into the homes of the Salhiyeh family in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. They evicted the family, arresting some of...
View ArticleThe question of violence
After years of the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority making it clear to the Palestinian people that diplomacy will not secure the realization of Palestinian rights–especially given...
View ArticleBlinken tells J Street Biden will change nothing
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was the keynote speaker at last week’s J Street conference. In what was undoubtedly the low point of the entire event, Blinken not only got a standing ovation as he...
View Article2023: A turning point for Palestine in global politics
2023 has been an eventful year in Palestine. Unfortunately, “eventful in Palestine” generally means bloody, and there is no doubt that this has been a particularly bloody year. Yet there has been more...
View ArticleHow Democrats learned to defend Israel’s ethnocracy
For a very long time, the United States worked diligently to stay away from the tense debate over Israel’s ability to be both a Jewish and democratic state. Even as Palestinians cried out about their...
View ArticleWe didn’t need hindsight to see Oslo as a failure
30 years ago today, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands in front of Bill Clinton on the White House lawn. Imaginations got fired up about a post-Cold War world that even saw peace in the Middle...
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