WASHINGTON, DC: Recent sputtering of a peace process between Israel and Palestine, the termination of Israel's settlement building freeze causing a demise of said peace process — again — has produced a loud, global yawn. What else is new in this (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: Recent sputtering of a peace process between Israel and Palestine, the termination of Israel's settlement building freeze causing a demise of said peace process – again – has produced a loud, global yawn. What else is new in this (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: The creation of an independent Palestine has been a dream dashed many times, but there may be a practical path forward emerging from a surprising place. I often heard the phrase ‘business is business' growing up in the 1960s among (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: The creation of an independent Palestine has been a dream dashed many times, but there may be a practical path forward emerging from a surprising place. I often heard the phrase ‘business is business' growing up in the 1960s among (...)
It is often said in the Arab world that the road to Jerusalem goes through Washington, with the implicit assumption that only the Americans can bring the Israelis to the negotiating table. But there is a distinctly different dynamic emerging from (...)
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the most powerful lobby groups in the United States, recently concluded its annual Washington conference. It drew a long line of administration officials and the presidential candidates to its (...)
There are Israeli Jews who have been talking to Hamas for years, especially Rabbi Menahem Frohman. In fact, there are more Israeli Jews, official and un-official, who would be talking not only to Hamas, but also to Syria and Iran were the White (...)
In the West, A mufti, a Christian and a rabbi ... is often how a good interfaith joke begins. But I live inside this reality. I am a rabbi and my Syrian colleague, Hind Kabawat, is a Christian Arab. We have worked for four years with the Grand Mufti (...)
We are at a critical juncture in the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. It is this struggle that takes precedence over the regional Arab-Israeli conflict because its acuteness and its constant festering since 1948 underlies the intractability of all the (...)