Peace Process

The future is looking increasingly and dangerously uncertain for millions of ordinary Afghans.

Former Knesset Speaker Avrum Burg endorsed the one-state solution in an article in Haaretz in December 2011, and called the entire left to do the same. Burg has flirted with the idea in the past, but he was never so explicitly.

A more comprehensive Afghan peace process will enjoy greater public support, legitimacy, sustainability, and ultimately lead to more democratic governance.

Israeli democracy is greatly endangered, and those who will suffer will be the Palestinians, the secular, the foreign workers, the leftists; in short, everyone who isn't haredi, secular nationalist, or religious nationalist.

In the Middle East a transaction should not be measured by its worth rather than by its value. Hamas has won much more than the release of over a thousand Palestinian prisoners. It has won strength and influence.

The joke going around is that McGuinness would be the first Irish person to ever command two armies, the IRA and the army of the Irish Republic.

There is enough blame to go around in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Once we realize this, we can then move to more accurate explanations of the malfunctions in the peace process, as well as craft policies that directly address the proper causes of failure.

While the mainstream press has been silent on the issue, there is a growing movement in Colombia for a peaceful settlement of the decades-long civil w...

President Barack Obama's back-to-back speeches on the peace process had much good to build on. Now is the time to start building.

Obama, Netanyahu and various Palestinian officials are scrambling to act as if they have some plan to move the peace process forward, when in fact, most of it is insincere posturing designed to pour concrete on what has thus far been failure.

If JStreet does not have the capacity to acknowledge that the two-state solution based on land-for-peace is no longer a solution, will the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" organization really be able to support the future peace process?

Barely had the pundits and populace come to grips with the Tunisian revolution that the existence of Palestine Papers was declared. Al Jazeera, the Qa...

This century-long Israeli-Palestinian battle over territory threatens to draw the entire global community into its bowels. The only way out of the current paralysis is to kill the "peace process" once and for all.

The US, Israel and a small, largely powerless coterie of others have created insurmountable parameters in dealing with the Palestinian-Israel issue. That means no peace ever, just a pressure-free Israeli occupation.

Looking at Palestinian self-destructive behavior, from Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, or anywhere else in the world, it is difficult to be optimistic for the future in the Middle East in the year ahead.

As articles blaming Israel for failed Mideast peace continue to stream into the headlines, it is clear that the Mideast reality will continue just as it always has -- with Iran as an increasingly mobilizing force.

It is ironic that Hamas today is criticized for being hardline -- and liberal too. Militant -- and not militant enough. Islamist -- and not Islamist enough. Iranian stooges -- and U.S. pawns, both.

The "relaunch" of the Middle East peace process is, at best, an Arab-Israeli peace process. And, to be even more accurate, the process is really the highly conditioned Israeli-Palestinian "track" of old.

For the first time, they have something to lose -- and much to gain from a final agreement that will at long last grant them independence.

As we approach the latest incarnation of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, I'm finding it difficult to be hopeful, though I will continue to try to be supportive recognizing, as I do, the consequences of failure.

Direct talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders are the most obvious way to achieve peace in the Middle East conflict. But history has shown time and again that a high-profile peace process alone is no recipe for success.

Despite rumors that Amr Moussa is preparing to run for office in Egypt, his focus remains firmly on the most contentious issue in the Middle East right now -- the troubled, never-ending "peace process" between Palestinians and Israelis.