Dr. Faheem Younus

Muslim, professor, doctor and philanthropist

Plato may have inadvertently summed up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2,500 years ago when he is thought to have declared: "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Qasim Rashid

Author, 'The Wrong Kind of Muslim'

Prophet Muhammad is history's first major figure to condemn collateral damage in word and deed. His advanced rules of war established 1,400 years ago a yet unmatched humanitarian standard. And herein lies the solution to modern conflict.

Oded Na'aman

Founder, Breaking the Silence

It is true that Israel officially disengaged from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, withdrawing its ground troops and evacuating the Israeli settlements there. But the testimonies of Israeli army veterans expose the truth of that "disengagement."

Daoud Kuttab

Palestinian journalist

Renewed regional and international attention requires Palestinians to step up and present a more unified position regarding the formulas that are needed to help provide a political answer to the violence.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Emmy-Nominated Producer/Host, @HuffPostLive

While the timeline only represents a fragment of a conflict that stretches back to the turn of the 20th Century, in the 12-year period since 2000, an underlying asymmetry is revealed, allowing us to look past the headlines and hype, and focus instead on the hard data.

James Zogby

President, Arab American Institute; author, 'Arab Voices'

Netanyahu's goal is not a lasting peace based on two states. It appears that he has never surrendered the Revisionist Zionist goal of a Greater Israel, with an autonomous and pacified Palestinian population that submits to Israel's diktat. And, in his way of thinking, he's almost there.

Raghida Dergham

Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat

The most recent war in Gaza has provided an opportunity on the field for Israel to test its new anti-missile system, the Iron Dome, and for Prime Mini...

Raymond J. Learsy

Author, 'Oil and Finance: The Epic Corruption Continues'

A highly vital step is in progress aligning the people of the Middle East to a mindset more in sync with the modern world ranging from Asia, emerging Africa, Europe and the Americas whereby faith becomes a builder rather than a destroyer.

Lorraine Devon Wilke

Writer of Sass & Sensibility

I've discovered that when I express anything that includes the phrase "both sides," I am branded as "close-minded" or "an idiot." In this current incarnation of the "Middle East problem," Americans are obligated to take sides. Make that, side. One side.

Marilyn Katz

President, MK Communications, Inc.

The only solution is the two-state solution, and the time for the United States to join the Arab League and European leaders to press for it is now.

Brian Levin, J.D.

Director, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, California State University

Following the violent deaths of his daughters during the last war between Israel and Gaza-based Hamas, Izzeldin Abuelaish became more fanatical in his stubborn efforts to put his mark on the conflict.

Arsen Ostrovsky

International Human Rights Lawyer

Col. Richard Kemp is a brave and heroic soldier who has served his country with distinction, fighting terrorism around the world for over 30 years. He says that "during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in the combat zones than any other army in the history of warfare."

Eitan Press

Writer, educator, Jewish spiritual activist

I am grateful I am alive because this past weekend, I was on the beach playing paddle-ball with my cousins in Tel Aviv when the air-raid sirens went off, which meant a missile was very possibly coming toward me.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Rabbi and Writer

In my recent campaign for Congress the issue of Gaza came up constantly. Firstly, because of the 2010 Gaza 54 letter in which select members of Congre...

Steven L. Spiegel

Professor of Political Science, UCLA

Now that the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has begun to take effect (at least for now), it's time to begin to assess the outcome of the war, and where we go from here.

Usra Ghazi

Campus Outreach Manager, Interfaith Youth Core

This Thanksgiving will be different -- it will be a time of fasting and feasting and learning about faith and foreign policy.