Yitzhak Rabin

Yale Has Gone to Singapore, But Can It Come Back?

Jim Sleeper | Posted 05.14.2012

Jim Sleeper

Yale University sustained such a college for more than 300 years and, through it, the American republic, and for much of the time the republic led the world, but now Yale's captains have bound it contractually to an authoritarian corporate city state.

The Jordanian Peace Initiative: A Case of Déjà Vu?

Guy Ziv | Posted 04.11.2012

Guy Ziv

Although Israel today enjoys peace with Jordan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to fester and, once again, Jordan is attempting to breathe life into the peace process.

Who Dares Wins

Samuel M. Katz | Posted 04.28.2012

Samuel M. Katz

How many world leaders can say that they have killed terrorist masterminds at point-blank range on a mission inside an enemy's capital? Barak has. How many world leaders have stormed a hijacked aircraft to rescue terrified passengers? Netanyahu has.

2011, the Year the Two-State Solution Died

Carlo Strenger | Posted 02.29.2012

Carlo Strenger

Although the two-state solution was far from perfect, at least it gave answers to these basic questions of governance and civic rights. But Israel's citizens and its government have decided. It will not be.

Gingrich Contradicts Israeli Government Position

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 02.13.2012

Daoud Kuttab

While Newt Gingrich's comments to a Jewish media outlet that Palestinians are an invented people was pretty bad, what was worse is what happened (or didn't happen) afterwards.

Orthodox Anti-Semitism Directed At Israel's Liberals

Carlo Strenger | Posted 02.07.2012

Carlo Strenger

Israel's liberals are cast as the "Jewish villains." Overly cerebral, they bow to the "laws of the gentiles."

Come Visit Israel. Before It's Gone.

Bradley Burston | Posted 01.23.2012

Bradley Burston

It was a place where there was an overriding belief that democracy was sacred, that minority rights should be respected more and more, rather than less and ultimately not at all.

Washington Must Confront Its Dysfunction, If It Is to Lead

James Zogby | Posted 01.05.2012

James Zogby

The hysteria on display in Washington over UNESCO's vote to include Palestine as a member of the world body, though largely a manufactured effort, was, nevertheless, irritating and a sad commentary on the dysfunctional nature of U.S. politics.

Man Vandalizes Rabin Memorial To Protest Prisoner Swap

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 12.14.2011

JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier captured by Gaza militants will likely return home Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for his family on Friday, ending a...

Miral's Rula Jebreal: The Palestinian Woman who wrote the Book that Started this Big Screening War

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Katie Halper

This week, days before Miral's release, I talked to Rula Jebreal about her life, her story, the film, violence, and her optimism for a peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

What Happens to Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty Now?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

MJ Rosenberg

The new Egypt will not repudiate a peace treaty with Israel that has saved so many lives on both sides. But the nature of the peace will change.

The Israel That Is No Longer

Avraham Burg | Posted 05.25.2011

Avraham Burg

Rabin was apparently the last whole Israeli. He was the one who symbolized Israeliness as it wanted to be: Full of contradictions but whole; divided but bridged.

Fifteen Years Later: Rabin and the Bullet That Rode a Crest

Adam Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Adam Chandler

Israel, a country without capital punishment, must honor Rabin by working with the Palestinians to finally put Yigal Amir's dreams to death.

Confessions of an Israeli Anti-Settler Bigot

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Bradley Burston

Settlement has long been, and remains, the fuel for the fire of de-legitimization of Israel, the basis of charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. It undermines the foundation of the idea of a Jewish state.

Beyond Peace in the Middle East at CGI

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

Michelle Kraus

It was a rare gift to be able to hear the Middle East session up close at this years Clinton Global Initiative. It is curious that there was not enormous media coverage of this landmark discussion

Noam Chomsky on Israel

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Kathleen Wells, J.D.

"The attitude towards Israel on the part of the intellectual community changed very sharply in 1967, from either lack of interest or sometimes even disdain, to almost passionate support. So what happened?"

Obama: Middle East Peace Talks to Begin Next Week

Eileen Read | Posted 05.25.2011

Eileen Read

The first round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in a decade will begin next week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced late Friday. These are the talks that should have started a year ago.

By George, I Think the Palestinians Have Got It!

Ami Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Ami Kaufman

This is a new kind of language coming out of the West Bank, and this new attitude and leadership from the Palestinian side is already bearing fruit on the diplomatic front.

Organizing to Stop Far Right Violence

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Frank Schaeffer

Other people, besides former evangelicals like me, are finally starting to realize that there is a serious problem facing America. What are we going to do about the haters?

Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Jesse Larner

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

Examining Peace, Remembering Rabin: Some Reflections on the J-Street Conference

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 05.25.2011

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

To water the seeds of peace, we need to recognize the humanity on all sides of this conflict and work to create a framework of peace that acknowledges the truths of two distinct narratives.

NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

Does President Obama -- and America -- Deserve the Nobel Prize?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Hoyt Hilsman

This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.

Following in Rabin's Footsteps Toward Peace

Asaf Shariv | Posted 05.25.2011

Asaf Shariv

Peace in the Mideast can be a reality. It's one that the late-Prime Minister Rabin sacrificed his life to achieve, and toward which every single Israeli Prime Minister thereafter has worked.

Shimon Peres Calls On Mahmoud Abbas Not To Quit

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the...