Tonight at Harvard they had a panel on the “road to peace after Gaza,” with former State Department official Nicholas Burns, who described the Israeli elections as a “hung election,” moderating between Shai Feldman and Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi said there…
Notwithstanding his smearing up and down the columns of the mainstream press a year and two back, Steve Walt is one of the most sober, calm, judicious voices in foreign policy that you will ever encounter–just what you’d expect of…
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi On the day Israelis went to the polls to elect a right-wing government that will include a party calling for…
As many voices on this site mourn the two-state solution, I picked up Palestinian-American Ali Abunimah’s book, One Country (2006). It tells a long-ago story that seems quaint today: Drawing parallels between Israel-Palestine and apartheid South Africa makes some people…
Sandy Tolan has some more advice for George Mitchell – “listen to people who are thinking beyond two-state options, and foster an openness and creativity absent from American diplomacy since the beginning of this tragedy 60 years ago.” Writing in…