These are terrible days for those of us who long to see Israel finally accepted by its neighbors. At a time when all 22 Arab states have offered Israel peace and normalization in exchange for the '67 territories, this war could destroy that possibility once and for all....

It didn't take long for the "two-state solution" to move from the category of radical to banal, but that is what has happened.

Today the "two-state solution" is everyone's favorite remedy. And yet it is farther from realization than ever. Its fate may, in fact, be that rare instance of...

It is impossible to get Mumbai out of my mind. I keep thinking about two-year-old, Moshe, sitting in his parents' blood, crying out to a mother and father who are gone forever.

It is hard to imagine how anyone can justify terror against children, but many people do. In fact,...

The Palestinian Authority, in a brilliant display of public relations, ran Hebrew-language ads this week, in Israel's four major newspapers, endorsing the Arab Peace Initiative (formerly known as the Saudi plan) and calling on Israelis to support it, too. The Palestinian Authority is also urging President-elect Barack Obama to put...

I have been looking to see if the Jewish "defense organizations" put out statements condemning the vicious attacks on Professor Rashid Khalidi, the Palestinian-American academic.

I looked in vain. But then, these Jewish organizations tend not to get overly excited when the targets of bigotry are Palestinian or even Palestinian-American....

It's almost laughable. A few months ago I received a slew of e-mails asking me for my opinion on Barack Obama's minister and his views of Israel. Yesterday I received a few informing me that Sarah Palin's church in Alaska is hostile to Israel and recently had a "Jews for...

Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic writer is worried about Iran and Israel. His worry is not the usual one. Although Goldberg is an American Jew so committed to Israel that he served in the Israeli army, Goldberg is worried about what an Israeli attack on Iran would mean for America and...

Watching Barack Obama in Israel it became clear that he knows the Arab-Israeli issue well. Those who hoped he would make some gaffe that would hurt his candidacy were disappointed. He knows the ins and outs of the issue the way President Bill Clinton did. He feels no need to...

Senator Obama's decision to include Israel in his overseas tour makes a lot of sense. Although he has been there before, the ever-changing Israeli scene needs to be experienced firsthand. I only hope Obama is not going to Israel in order to impress a small but vocal minority of Jewish...

The Israel-Hamas cease-fire, brokered by Egypt, is still in effect, which is something of a surprise.

After all, this is a cease-fire few like -- especially in Israel. Some of the same government officials who secured it wasted little time in saying that they did not expect it to...

Barack Obama and John McCain agree on one thing: When it comes to Iran, all options are on the table.

That makes sense. No one knows for sure if Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. But its president gives every indication that it is.

Addressing a cheering crowd in Tehran on...

Barack Obama's speech to AIPAC on Wednesday was a hit. Contrary to predictions that the AIPAC crowd would receive Obama coldly, he was met with enthusiasm. A friend who was in the room said, "Obama was a huge hit. The college kids in particular went crazy. But all the people...

What was President Bush thinking?

Bush went to Israel to celebrate its 60th anniversary, a nice gesture and one in keeping with a President whose personal proclivities are strongly pro-Israel even if his policies have not done Israel much good.

He used his visit there not just to salute...

Yesterday Israelis celebrated Israeli's 60th Independence Day. Last week they commemorated Yom Ha'Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. That Independence Day immediately follows Yom Ha'Shoah is appropriate. Together these two days encapsulate the message: Never Again.

The existence of Israel is in no way compensation for the eradication of Europe's Jewish communities....

It is fascinating, although not at all surprising, that the candidates for president almost never discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's not like it is some minor foreign policy issue. Ask Americans to name two or three of the most pressing foreign policy issues and they are bound to mention the...

Robert Malley is a creative scholar and diplomat who was a key player in the Clinton negotiating team that worked tirelessly to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the late 1990s through 2001. Recently, he signed ons an unofficial adviser to the Barack Obama campaign, while maintaining his close ties to...

Bernard Avishai, who is one of Israel's most provocative writers and thinkers, says that it is "getting harder and harder to find leaders in the Israeli government who are not calling for a massive invasion of Gaza." He writes about two Israeli brothers in Sderot, 8-year-old Oshri Twito...

A few hours after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, I happened to see an interview with a group of Pakistani university students who were part of a stunned mass of grieving people on the streets of Karachi. They all looked and sounded secular, educated and western. The reporter asked them...

Good news. Some of the more conservative American Jewish institutions are coming around to acceptance of the two-state solution, ending the occupation, and sharing Jerusalem. And Israeli leaders visiting the US this week are conveying the same messages to Americans and members of Congress.

It's about time. The overwhelming majority...

Critics of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Steven M. Walt cannot be surprised that the attacks on the book prior to publication have already helped propel it to #10 on Amazon's best-seller list. Not only that, the names "Walt-Mearsheimer" have become almost People...