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Hamas’ Options: Bad and Worse
An edited version of this piece originally appeared at LobeLog. The fighting in Gaza will continue for some time, as a ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt fell apart. Despite the bellicose The...
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A Tale of Two Ceasefires
A slightly edited version of this article first appeared at LobeLog. It’s the best resource on the web for analysis of US foreign policy. Please check it out. The two ceasefire proposals aimed at...
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Framing the Gaza Narrative
This article originally appeared in an edited form at LobeLog. With U.S. bombs dropping in Iraq once again and Israeli troops having moved out of Gaza, the fighting between Hamas and Israel has faded a...
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Egypt’s Gaza Truce Proposal: What Does it Mean?
This article appeared originally in an edited form at LobeLog. According to reports, Egypt has given both Israel and Hamas a take-it-or-leave-it plan for ending the current round of violence. It bears...
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A Proposed UNSC Ceasefire Plan For Gaza
The attempt to resolve the ongoing, albeit highly uneven, exchange of fire between Israel and Gaza has now reached the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The draft proposal, initially pushed by...
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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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A Poison Pill For AIPAC
Today, I’m asking my readers to please support the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The group has been working hard on some new legislation and it’s really important to help get this...
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It Couldn’t Be Clearer
The photo here, linked to the Ha’aretz article from which it comes, makes it as clear as you could want just how threatening the new settlement, Givat Hamatos is. It doesn’t threaten “peace”; it...
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Fear Trumps Morality
Fear truly is the mind-killer. It has a way, when intentionally stoked and directed at some enemy, of killing a lot of people as well. In Israel, the Jewish graffiti on a Palestinian home bombardment...
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Operation ClusterFuck
Chas Freeman, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and thirty-year veteran of the United States’ foreign service delivered a speech today that Ambassador Chas W. Freeman everyone in the United States...
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Poll: Increasing Support In US For One-State Solution
On Friday, yet another poll on the Middle East was released. They seem to come in a very steady stream, and once Tzipi Livni and Saeb Erekat flanking John Kerry at the kickoff of the new...
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Toward A New Two-State Solution
The idea that the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead has been repeated so many times in the past several years that it has taken on the droning sound of a mantra. Yet at the...
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The Endless Occupation
In late October, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a joint meeting of the Knesset foreign Affairs and Defense Committees that “at this time we need to control all of the territory (of the...
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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...
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The Tangled Mess In The Persian Gulf Echoes 1914
The current situation in the Persian Gulf is all too similar to Europe in 1914, according to a new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG). In “Averting the Middle East’s 1914 Moment,” the ICG...
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The ICC Decides to Investigate War Crimes in West Bank and Gaza
The International Criminal Court at The Hague As Israel moves toward its third round of elections in less than a year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is desperate to find a way to hold on to power....
View ArticleCutting Through: Politics Undermine Human Rights Council
With this latest edition of the Cutting Through newsletter, I finally end the four-month hiatus I unexpectedly went on. Thank you to all of you out there for waiting patiently, and my apologies for...
View ArticleWhy is Israel MIA on Ukraine-Russia crisis?
In my latest piece for Responsible Statecraft, I look at Israel’s reluctance to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. I look at its excuses for doing so and find they don’t stack up at all. In...
View ArticleIn latest visit Blinken offers nothing to Palestinians
With the headlines currently abuzz about popping balloons, it’s worth looking at what the Biden administration means when it talks about diplomacy. It was on display this week in Israel and the West...
View Article‘Moderate PAC’ is latest big-money push to keep Democrats in line on Israel
If you don’t know who Jeffrey Yass is, you should. He is a Republican mega-donor and one of the primary funders of the far-right Kohelet Forum in Israel, which has proven very effective at moving...
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