July 11, 2011 was a watershed in Israel's political history. The adoption by the Knesset of "The Law to Prevent Harm to the State of Israel via Boycott" (generally known as the boycott law), makes it a compensable civil wrong to publicly encourage a (...)
At precisely the same time that civil society has emerged as the catalyst in democratically-driven upheavals in the Arab world, Israel's civil society is increasingly threatened. There is a direct correlation between the rising centrality of civil (...)
JERUSALEM: The second Netanyahu government's composition, size and initial policy statements do not augur well for positive movement on the critical peace front. As international pressure mounts, progress today depends as much on the nature and (...)
The Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict highlights both the good intentions and the misplaced conceptions of its promulgators. Five years after its adoption, it lingers not as a tool for (...)
JERUSALEM: The exploration of possibilities for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations has highlighted a familiar paradox: the uneasy relationship between respective leaders and their publics in the delicate context of peace talks. (...)
