Leon Wieseltier‘s piercing words are fair warning to all those who agree with the imperative of a two state solution but sense no personal duty to do something about it. Indeed, the greatest challenge to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict is that the overwhelming majority that would ideally support a vision of two states for two [...]
Bernard Avishai draws a parallel between McCarthyism and the current campaign against Senator Chuck Hagel led by groups in the American Jewish Community. He calls upon leaders in the American Jewish Community to speak out against the too often employed practice of lambasting politicians with nuanced stances on Middle East politics. Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by [...]
Israel sets the record straight after the US gun lobby held up Israeli society as a model for successfully using guns to protect civilians. When the Newtown shooting instigated a cry for tighter gun control in our country, gun lobbyists called for more armed guards at school and used Israel as a positive example of [...]
Maikel Nabil has served time in Egyptian prison for speaking out against his own government. Now he travels to Israel and Palestine to spread a message of peace. His main objective is to end the Egyptian government’s monopoly on the peace process. It takes great courage for Nabil to speak out, and we should support [...]
The note below from Israel Policy Forum’s Chair, Peter Joseph, and Executive Director, David Halperin, responds to the outcry against Senator Chuck Hagel from members of the Jewish community who question Hagel’s support for Israel. Joseph and Halperin bring Senator Hagel’s 2008 address to the IPF as evidence that Hagel does not propose a threat to [...]
I just got a chance to read a post by Ben-Dror Yemini refuting Gideon Levy’s spin of a poll as if it were confirming that Israelis support an apartheid state. Yemini is for the most part an excellent writer and moderate nuanced thinker, though some of his specific arguments and rebuttals in this case are a [...]
The people of Dar Sallah were joined by Palestinian leaders and activists to plant more than 1,000 olive trees in the newly establish Peace Park in Bethlehem. With the public contribution of peaceful tree planting, One Voice Palestine worked to promote the concept of personal responsibility and engagement among Palestinian people to encourage state building in peace [...]
The Daily Beast reports that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stands behind the Palestinian delegation’s U.N. bid for statehood today. Olmert wrote, “I believe that the Palestinian request from the United Nations is congruent with the basic concept of the two-state solution. Therefore, I see no reason to oppose it.” Read the full story [...]
“Of all the points of disagreement between Israel and Hamas, maybe the most profound is this one: Israel cares more about sparing innocent lives – including those of Palestinians – than does Hamas. Hamas has instigated yet another war where the chief loser will certainly be its own people,” observes Richard Cohen. His opinion piece [...]
So many in the Israeli and American Jewish community say that Palestinians take no steps to build trust or recognize that they are committed to live in peace with Israel. But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has for over a decade consistently been courageous about the need for reaching a two state solution through non-violent means, [...]