Posted in Alan Dowty, Israel, Palestinians, United Nations, Walter Reich on Nov 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Alan Dowty As the Goldstone report on the Gaza war wends it way up the UN food chain, casting further opprobrium on Israel at each level, it is legitimate to question Israel’s handling of this challenge. Did the Israeli response lessen or aggravate the damage? There are serious critiques that could have been levied [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Alan Dowty, Israel, Palestinians, Robert O. Freedman, Robert Satloff, Walter Reich on Aug 27th, 2009 4 Comments »
From Robert O. Freedman In his June 2009 Bar-Ilan University speech, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asserted that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” was one of Israel’s requirements for agreeing to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Both Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat,immediately rejected the requirement. However, [...]
Posted in Bernard Haykel, Egypt, Michael Doran, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia on Aug 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Michael Doran Until the end of July, the Obama administration had been signaling that the mid-August visit of the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, would be the occasion for the roll-out of a major U.S. initiative for brokering a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the weeks immediately preceding the visit, the White House [...]
Posted in Egypt, Israel, Michele Dunne, Palestinians, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Aug 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Steven A. Cook Mubarak is on his way back to Egypt. Well done, folks. It’s amazing how much mileage we can… all… squeeze… out… of a meeting that is notable for its general lack of newsworthiness. If I had to score this one, I hate to say it, but I would give the edge [...]
Posted in Books, Diplomacy, Iran, Israel, Palestinians on Aug 17th, 2009 Comments Off
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. David Makovsky is Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His new book, [...]
Posted in Hamas, Joshua Muravchik, Matthew Levitt, Palestinians on Aug 11th, 2009 3 Comments »
From Matthew Levitt Hamas, which recently created a production company and released its first major film production glorifying the life of a master terrorist (view the Arabic trailer at the end of this post), has scored its first major public relations coup. In a new article on the website of Foreign Affairs, Michael Bröning (director [...]
Posted in Diplomacy, Israel, Palestinians, Philip Carl Salzman on Aug 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
Israel America Academic Exchange (IAAE) is a new organization that sponsors educational missions to Israel for American scholars in the fields of political science, international relations, international law, international economic development, modern history, and Middle East studies. By special arrangement, participants in the inaugural mission (June 22-29) have been invited to guest-post their impressions and [...]
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