Peace

If the Arab world acts decisively to sideline Hamas, the organization’s financial, logistical, and public support may erode significantly. The highly anticipated Egyptian vision for the future of Gaza was...

One hundred and ten years ago, during what was to become the bloodiest conflict the world had seen to that point, the fighting stopped for Christmas. It wasn’t planned, but...

President John F. Kennedy famously quipped, “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion, without the discomfort of thought.” The same idea describes the current thinking about the end of...

Despite all its military advantages during Forty-Four Day War two years ago, the Azerbaijani army did not enter areas in Karabakh where Armenians are densely populated—avoiding unwanted casualties among civilians...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The United States now has a cabinet-level strategy to help women in underprivileged countries before conflicts, during the violence, and in the peace-building process. Three...

During the May conflict between Hamas and Israel, it was Egypt, not the United States, that mediated a truce on May 21. Egypt’s diplomats succeeded in negotiating an end to the...

Israel is following up expansion of its diplomatic presence in the Persian Gulf by promoting, according to a report from the Israeli television channel i24News, a “defense alliance” to include...

U.S. envoy Richard Mills didn’t say anything particularly surprising the other day when he told the UN Security Council that, to keep the “two-state solution” viable, Israel should refrain from...

Jerome Slater, Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). 507 pp. $29.95. Every long-running international conflict acquires a lore that rationalizes...

Israelis have a slang word for the mindset that takes hold during the twilight of an endeavor when the light is already visible at the end of the tunnel. Asak—a...

Three years ago this week, the United States became a world leader in women’s empowerment. That’s when, in one of President Donald Trump’s first official acts in office, the Women,...

After Israel’s resounding victory over the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian armies in 1967, the Jewish state again offered the Arab world peace in exchange for recognition. And it was again...