MJ Rosenberg, 04.15.2011
Senior Foreign Policy Fellow, Media Matters Action Network
With President Barack Obama expected to deliver a major speech outlining a new Middle East peace strategy soon, Cantor decided it was time to invite Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to deliver one of his own.
Daniel Wagner and Ruth Sigalus, 04.15.2011
Managing Director, Country Risk Solutions
Israel has been a net beneficiary of its policy of nuclear ambiguity, but whether Israel will be able to maintain a balance between its security and foreign policy objectives remains to be seen.
Sarah Leah Whitson, 04.15.2011
Executive director, Middle East and North African Division for Human Rights Watch
In a week when the U.S. paused to recall the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, President Peres might have considered King's message and why such a system of racial inequality remains in place.
Rabbi Michael Lerner, 04.14.2011
Editor, Tikkun Magazine
In this year of uprising in Egypt what does the Passover story have to say to us? As we sit at the Seder table we need to discuss how ancient liberation for the Jews can inspire liberation today for all people.
David A. Love, 04.13.2011
Executive Editor, BlackCommentator.com
This film presents Palestinians as everyday human beings in all their complexities. Miral provided a public service to viewers who are unexposed to the Israel occupation.
Dovid Efune, 04.15.2011
Director, The Algemeiner Journal and Gershon Jacobson Foundation
There is great excitement these days now that Kazakh Israeli billionaire Alexander Mashkevitch has announced he is planning to launch an international Jewish news network that will serve as Israel's answer to Al Jazeera.
MJ Rosenberg, 04.12.2011
Senior Foreign Policy Fellow, Media Matters Action Network
The United States should support the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state. It is time for Obama to deliver on the promise he made in Cairo to use his authority not to defend the deadly status quo but to end it.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 04.12.2011
Rabbi and writer
There have been minor comments by Samantha Power that have been interpreted as hostile to Israel, but those interpretations rely on a false assumption. Power is a heroic defender of Israel.
Sharmine Narwani, 04.11.2011
Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
Three issues have plagued the region for decades and threaten to derail progress at every turn. I call them the Mideast's "Stink Bombs" -- hyper-divisive issues that inflame passions and serve a politicized minority only.
Levi Ben-Shmuel, 04.11.2011
Tai Chi and Kabbalah teacher, co-creator of Sulam Chi: Prayer in Motion
The joy of the dancers and their friends ignited joy in me. It reminded me that it doesn't take much to connect to it. Joy has the power to lead us out of our minds and into our souls.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg, 04.11.2011
Former US Ambassador to Morocco
If Obama could declare it was time for Gaddafi and Mubarak to go, the latest violence throughout Syria compels the White House to issue the same demand on Assad, with policy prescriptions to back that demand up.
Ted Piccone, 04.09.2011
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for Foreign Policy, Brookings
This debate will rage on, complicated if not entirely consumed by politics and emotion. It's probably not surprising, then, that most commentators have entirely missed three critical points.
MJ Rosenberg, 04.08.2011
Senior Foreign Policy Fellow, Media Matters Action Network
If progressive Jews really believe that ending the occupation and supporting a Palestinian state is in Israel's best interests, they will turn the tables on their "mainstream" friends.
Adam Chandler, 04.07.2011
Brooklyn-based writer and journalist
I know Israel acts very improperly sometimes, but make up your mind already. Either it's the worst of humanity or the fog of war. Don't you understand that discourse about this conflict has no place for nuance and reappraisal?
Bradley Burston, 04.06.2011
Senior Editor, Haaretz.com
Richard Goldstone has given us is an example of someone who is willing, despite everything, to acknowledge when mistaken and to come forward and own up.
Tulin Daloglu, 04.06.2011
Free-lance writer, foreign policy analyst
Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict really the biggest problem in the Middle East? The Arab Spring shows that Arab misrule is an even bigger and far more pervasive problem.
Omar Baddar, 04.07.2011
Political Scientist, Human Rights Activist
The more defenders of Israeli policies overreach and try to capitalize on Goldstone's op-dd in the Washington Post, the more pressure Goldstone will be under to disappoint them by clarifying his position.
Ira Chernus, 04.05.2011
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
Since the chance of Israel and Palestine negotiating on their own is somewhere below zero, there's growing talk about Obama going to Jerusalem and giving a speech that presents his own peace plan.
MJ Rosenberg, 04.04.2011
Senior Foreign Policy Fellow, Media Matters Action Network
Jubilation over Goldstone's minor edit is misplaced. Critics of Israel's 2008-9 Gaza onslaught weren't enraged that the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians was intentional, but rather that it took place at all.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 04.04.2011
Rabbi and writer
It's clear that with his most recent ramblings the description 'respected international jurist' will never again be appended to Richard Goldstone. But much more troubling are the comments now being attributed to Samantha Power.
Alon Ben-Meir, 04.04.2011
Senior Fellow at NYU's Center for Global Affairs
The many shared challenges that Israel and Turkey face in the region today could serve to bridge the gaps that have kept their reconciliation at bay, and re-shape diplomatic relations amidst a rapidly-evolving Middle East.