I have been to the Gaza Strip twice and southern Israel once since the 2008-09 war, where I had the opportunity to listen to accounts from both people about what had happened to them during that time. Israelis showed me thickly walled rooms that act as bomb shelters and explained...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - J Street's first national conference just finished after a three-day whirlwind of events. For an organization that started a little over 18 months ago, bringing more than 1,500 people and nearly 150 members of Congress together to "change the face of pro-Israel advocacy in the United States...

GONAIVES, Haiti - Most of us would agree that there is a serious problem vis-a-vis access to food in the developing world. According to the UN food agency, there are now more than one billion undernourished people worldwide. The need to do something about the broken food system is especially...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Here in Haiti, a country all too often characterized by internal instability, the biggest scandals of all have external origins. Just ask the Haitians. In the last century alone, they have been forced to deal with what award-winning Haitian economist Camille Chalmers described to me as "three...

Like so many others, I have been glued to the Internet all week watching Iran's chaos unfold from the outside. This moment is certainly one in which there will be a "before" and "after" -- not only for the Persian people -- but also for the international community. Following are...

RAFAH, Gaza - Although the idea of "necessity as the mother of invention" dates back to Plato's Republic, it has become a motto of sorts in the Gaza Strip today as people organize to rebuild and work around complicated obstacles. Not only are some of the ideas coming out of...

GAZA CITY, Gaza - The Egyptians are world famous for their soap operas. As a student in Cairo nine years ago, I remember seeing glitzy billboards all over town and trying to make out the drama of the background noise they provided in almost every household I visited. This Monday,...