U.S. policy is fully opposed to Israel's settlement expansion. Nonetheless, the U.S. continues to provided Israel with massive military aid and diplomatic support that undermines any chance for peace.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.11.2009 | World
From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Yes, I'm running for President of Palestine in the next election. No, I don't expect to win. My goal is to get the real leaders to do their jobs and stop putzing around.
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
CAIRO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S. stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesda...
Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World
NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Tzipi Livni has sent in a remarkable letter of affirmation to J Street, recognizing potential differences but affirming a shared strategic vision for the best interests of Israel.
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
For the Palestinians, there is still no real leadership, no one who speaks for all of them, and no one who can get them the state they so desperately want. This must change.
David Harris | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
Why would Brazil, today a towering bastion of democratic values, seek closer ties with Iran, its polar opposite?
Mort Zuckerman | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
The progress being made by the Palestinians, in terms of controlling the terrorists and criminal gangs, is one of the most promising developments to have occurred in decades.
Ira Chernus | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
It is those U.S. moves meant to contain the power of Iran that are the main stumbling block on the path to a U.S.-brokered two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
With the Gaza Strip still under Hamas rule, potential investors in the Palestinian Authority - the Arab states and international community - need to focus on improving conditions in the West Bank.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
It's hard to spend any time with Israeli President Shimon Peres and remain pessimistic about the possibility of peace.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
There are many things wrong with the Goldstone report, but most important, it has set back prospects of peace by making it far more difficult for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
Until the Palestinians eager to bury the Jewish state finally recognize the legitimate national aspirations of 5.7 million Jews, there may not be peace. But there will always be an Israel.
Amjad Atallah | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
In a move sure to antagonize the Onion for not having come up with it first, former U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee endorsed Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and rejected the "two-state solution."
David Halperin | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
I was curious if Rob Malley and Hussein Agha's NYT op-ed title -- "The Two State Solution Won't Solve Anything" -- is what they intended, so I sent Rob Malley a few questions by email.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
We want Israel to remain a bipartisan issue and an issue that does not divide generations.
Saree Makdisi | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
Netanyahu's speech marked both the definitive end and a symbolic return to the beginning of the two-state solution as that hapless notion has been peddled since the Oslo Accords of 1993-95.
The Real News | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state under what's called the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
UNITED NATIONS — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's tough terms for a Palestinian p...
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
Obama will not compromise the imperatives of Israel's security, but he also will not ease his efforts in aiding in the creation of a second State, a Palestinian one, for which we have waited 60 years.
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
President Obama's push for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict has given the Palestinians an historic opportunity to end their disastrous state of affairs.
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attempt to narrow a growing divide with the Obama administration when he delivers a m...
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side -- Israel -- taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics
That one Zionist would be me, but I know that I'm not alone. Take President Obama: he sounded like another unrepentant Zionist in Cairo this week. Z...
Omar Baddar | Posted 12.11.2009 | World