Israel, Palestine and the US

Articles online 2008-2009

Selected/Collected  by John Kilcullen



Israel’s Fight-or-Flight Response

John Mueller and Ian S. Lustick, National Interest, 30 October 2008 

Change they can believe in: To Make Israel Safe, Give Palestinians Their Due

 Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 17 November, 2008

Solving the “Palestinian Problem”

 Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post, January 7 2009

Both parties cheerlead still more loudly for Israel’s war

Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 8 January 2009

Talking to Hamas is a step toward peace

Jonathan Freedland, Guardian, 8 January 2009

Clinton today: No decision on Mideast peace personnel

Steve Rosen, Middle East Forum, 13 January 2009

After Oslo, a way forward

Sam Brownback, Jerusalem Post,  18 January 2009

The myth of Israel’s strategic genius

Stephen M Walt, Foreign Policy, 19 January 2009

This Is Not a Test

Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, 24 January 2009

How Words Could End a War

Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges , New York Times, 24 January 2009

Obama and a Settlements Freeze

Steven J. Rosen, Middle East Forum, 28 January 2009

The Mother of All Quagmires

Michael J. Totten, Commentary,  [January 2009]

What will Obama do when Israel votes ‘no’ again?

Tony Karon, National, 1 February 2009

Israel not a banana republic--Assumption that Israeli PM cannot face US presidential pressure unfounded

Yoram Ettinger, Ynetnews, 8 February 2009

A "Kosovan Solution" for Palestine

 John Kilcullen, Real Clear World, 8 February 2009

10 February Israeli election results;  31 March 2009, Netanyahu government approved by Israeli Parliament.

One Region, Two States

Shimon Peres, Washington Post, 10 February 2009

What do we do if the “two-state” solution collapses?

Stephen M Walt, Foreign Policy, 10 February 2009

The Israel of the Three Likudniks

Daniel Levy, Foreign Policy, February 2009

Middle East Peacemaking Has Failed: It’s time for Plan B

Nathan J. Brown, Foreign Policy,  March 2009

The Path of Realism or the Path of Failure: Laying a foundation for peace in Palestine

Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard, 2 March 2009

A Bad Time for Palestinian Unity 

Yossi Alpher, Jerusalem Post, 4 March 2009

Clinton says two-state solution ‘inescapable’ for Middle East

Times, 4 March 2009

It’s Not Iran; It’s Palestine

Matthew Yglesias,  American Prospect,  5 March 2009
 

Window of Opportunity

Ha'aretz, 8 March 2009

An Honest Conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

David H. Young, Huffington Press, 11 March 2009

The Price of Palestinian Unity Government

David Makovsky, Real Clear World, 14 March 2009

Voices of Dissent

Encounter, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 22 March 09

A Last Chance for a Two-State Israel-Palestine Agreement

U.S./Middle East Project. See next item. 

The Fierce Urgency of Peace

Roger Cohen, New York Times, 26 March 2009
 

Please tell me, where is Israel headed?

Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, 26 March 2009

  

Israel’s new foreign minister dismisses Annapolis

Reuters, 1 April 2009
 

A Harsh Reality for Palestinians

Ahmad Tibi, New York Times, 6 April 2009

The Settlement Freeze Fallacy

Elliott Abrams,  Washington Post, 8 April 2009 

Can the United States put pressure on Israel? A user’s guide 

Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, 10 April 2009

Emanuel Says Obama Insists On Implementing Two State Solution, No Ifs, Ands, or Buts 

MJ Rosenberg, Middle East Peace Pulse Blog, 16 April 2009

Growing Majority of Americans Oppose Israel Building Settlements

World Public Opinion.org, 23 April 2009 

Refusing a Single Narrative

Gershom Gorenberg,  American Prospect, 23 April 2009

Israel: The Missing Piece

Andrew Engel,  Real Clear World, 24 April 2009

No more make-believe in the Middle East

Norman H. Olsen, Christian Science Monitor, 27 April 2009

The treason of the hawks

Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, 28 April 2009

Netanyahu to offer U.S. three-part plan for peace talks

Aluf Benn and Barak Ravid, Ha'aretz, 29 April 2009

 

On the Middle East Peace Process 

King Abdullah II, Real Clear World, 29 April 

Running out of solutions: For Benny Morris the Israeli left isn’t where it used to be.  

Evan R Goldstein, Foreign Policy, April 2009

Hamas: U.S. Diplomacy’s Final Frontier 

Peter Beinart, Time, 1 May 2009

How Obama’s America Might Threaten Israel  

Norman Podhoretz, Commentary, May 2009

Caught in the Middle  

David Ignatius, Foreign Policy, May-June 09

Biden and Kerry at AIPAC Call for an End to Settlement Expansion (and more)

Lara Friedman, Americans for Peace Now, 5 May 2009

The good, the bad, and the unknown  

Stephen M. Walt,  Foreign Policy, 6 May 2009

Nation building for Palestine

Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz, 7 May 2009

Seven Existential Threats   

Michael B. Oren, Commentary, May 2009

Hostage to Israel’s far right 

Joseph Algazy and Dominique Vidal, Le Monde diplomatique

Netanyahu is not the barrier to peace

David Frum, National Post, 8 May 2009

Jerusalem’s Obstructionist Construction

Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect, 8 May 2009

New pressures for Netanyahu will lead to the same old manoeuvres

James Zogby, National,  11 May 2009

For Obama and Netanyahu, it’s showdown time

Simon Tisdall, Guardian, 11 May 2009 

Two States Now: The Case for Unilateral U.S. Recognition of Palestine 

John Kilcullen, World Politics Review  11 May 2009; see also Judah Grunstein, First a Palestinian State, Then Negotiations, WPR, 11 May 2009.

Progress is doomed if Obama is merely a cleverer version of Bush

Jonathan Freedland, Guardian, 12 May 2009
 

The Jordanian option is back 

Michael Bar-Zoha, Jerusalem Post, 12 May 2009

A Middle East miracle might just happen

Malcolm Rifkind,  Times, 12 May 2009

A Recognition Israel Doesn’t Need

Yonatan Touval, New York Times, 13 May 2009

Obama puts Israel at risk: As he and Netanyahu prepare to meet, US-Israeli relations are sinking toward an all-time low

Ariel Cohen, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2009

Are Two States a Solution? No one knows how to process peace in the Middle East

Clifford D. May, National Review Online, 14 May 2009

Obama’s Two State Challenge 

Alon Ben-Meir, Real Clear World, 15 May 2009

Israel’s Fears, Amalek’s Arsenal 

Jeffrey Goldberg, New York Times, 16 May 2009

Will congress back Bibi or Obama?

M.J. Rosenberg, Huffington Post, 17 May 2009

Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Making a smart connection 

Oded Eran and Emily B. Landau, Jerusalem Post, 17 May 2009

18 May 2009: Netanyahu meets Obama in Washington 

The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship? 

Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy,18 May 2009

Saving Israel From Itself : The two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the Jewish state’s long-term security—and our own

John J. Mearsheimer, American Conservative, 18 May 2009

Israel’s Netanyahu: Taking a Turn Toward Pragmatism?

Tim McGirk, Time, 18 May 2009 

Iran, not Palestine, tops Israel’s agenda 

Alon Pinkas, Times, 18 May 2009

The Six Issues That Divide Bibi from Barack

Tony Karon, Time, 18 May 2009

Did Obama Get Suckered? 

Martin Indyk,  Daily Beast, 19 May 2009

Netanyahu: Master Maneuverer: 

James Zogby, Middle East Online, 19 May 2009

Clinton to PM: No more settlement construction

Herb Keinon and Hilary Leila Kreiger, Jerusalem Post, 20 May 2009

A Strategy for Netanyahu: Time for a solution that shows who wants peace. 

Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, 20 May 2009

U.S., Israel Face Fork in the Road

Gregory Scoblete, Real Clear World, 20 May 2009

Vote Fatah (or Hamas) 

Khalil Shikaki, New York Times, 20 May 2009

Two State Solutionism 

Rick Richman, Commentary, 24 May 2009
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The War to Begin All Wars 

Gershom Gorenberg, New York Review of Books, 28 May 2009

Netanyahu: "What the hell do they want from me?"

Laura Rosen, Foreign Policy, 28 May 2009

Is Obama Getting Tough With Israel? 

Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, 29 May 2009

Settling the Settlements debate  

Marty Peretz, New Republic, 29 May 2009

Obama’s Bold Settlements Unsettledness

Rami Khouri, Real Clear World, 30 May 2009

Obama in the Muslim World

Various, Washington Post, 31 May 2009

What if Tzipi Livni were prime minister of Israel 

Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz, 31 May 2009 

Abbas’s Waiting Game

Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, 29 May 2009

Will Obama be Netanyahu’s downfall? Barack Obama’s perceived tilt towards the Arab world has left Israel’s fragile coalition government reeling

Simon Tisdall, Guardian, 2 June 2009

What will happen if Israel ‘defeats’ Obama 

Akiva Eldar, Ha'aretz, 1 June 2009

Who Will Blink on Israeli Settlements?

HDS Greenway, Real Clear World, 2 June 2009
 

Is the Israel Lobby getting weaker? 

Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, 3 June 2009

Obama’s Cairo speech

Real Clear Politics, 4 June 2009.

Time is ripe to end the Arab-Israeli conflict 

Shimon Peres, Times, 4 June 2009 

Analysis: What Obama failed to understand, or refused to publicly identify

Efraim Zuroff, Jerusalem Post, 4 June 2009

House Hunting in the West Bank 

Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect, 4 June 2009

The End of America’s Strategic Alliance with Israel?

Caroline Glick, National Review Online, 4 June 2009

Weekend Opinionator: Obama in Cairo, as Seen From Tel Aviv

Tobin Harshaw, New York Times, 5 June 2009 

Democracy’s Price of Admission 

Tzipi Livni, New York Times, 5 June 2009

Settlements: the wrecking ball’s in your court now, Bibi 

Tony Karon,  National, 7 June 2009

Hillary Clinton’s Troubling Transformation on Israel

Morton Klein, Jerusalem Post, 8 June 2009

West Bank Settlements and Future of Israel 

Stratfor, Real Clear World, 9 June 2009

Obama and the Middle East

Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, New York Review of Books, 11 June 2009

The sound of settling: Is there any reason Obama should back down on the settlement issue? 

Matthew Yglesias, American Prospect, 11 June 2009

Must-y Cairo rhetoric

Douglas J. Feith, Washington Times, 11 June 2009

Why Israelis Are Cool on the Obama Speech: What’s needed is an affirmation of Israel’s historical right to exist. 

Judea Pearl, Wall Street Journal, 12 June 2009

A Friend in Need  Barack gets tough on Bibi.  

Jacob Weisberg, Newsweek, 13 June 2009

Full text of Binyamin Netanyahu’s Bar Ilan speech Jun 14, 2009

Jerusalem Post, 14 June 2009.

Netanyahu’s Speech and the Peace Process 

Stratfor, Real Clear World, 15 June 2009

Settling for Radicalism: how the Israeli government has fostered religious extremism and fractured its own democracy 

Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect, 15 June 2009

The Middle East’s hard line-up

Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2009

A Palestinian Choice: Israel’s PM gets no credit for bending on a two-state solution

Wall Street Journal, 18 June 2009

Netanyahu’s revolution 

Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz, 19 June 2009

Why Obama should keep the heat on Israel  

Peter Beinart, Time, 22 June 2009

Hamas: Ideological Rigidity and Political Flexibility

Paul Scham and Osama Abu-Irshaid, United States Institute of Peace, June 2009

To know what Bibi really thinks, listen to his father 

Tony Karon, National, 11 July 2009

Europe can do more in the middle east

Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, 15 July 2009

The Middle East chess game Obama needs to win

Philip Stephens, Financial Times, 16 July 2009

Obama’s faltering peace drive 

Simon Tisdall, Guardian, 27 July 2009

Family Feud:  Six ways that Obama can regain Israeli trust

Yossi Klein Halevi, New Republic, 28 July 2009

How Iran Could Save the Middle East 

Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic, July/August 2009

Survival of the fittest; continued

Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz, 18 August 2009
 

Israel betrayed: President Obama is treating our friend like a fiend, and turning public opinion against an ally 

James Kirkchick, New York Post,  19 August 2009

Too clever by half? 

Stuart A. Cohen, Jerusalem Post, 20 June 2009

One Giant Leap for an Ideologue, One Small Step towards Peace 

Timothy Collins, Diplomatic Courier, 21 June 2009

Fictions on the Ground

Tony Judt, New York Times, 22 June 2009  

Stand Firm on Settlements 

Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy, 24 June 2009

Want to Stop Israeli Settlements? Start With American Jews 

Ronit Avni, Washington Post, 25 June 2009

Hillary Is Wrong About the Settlements: The U.S. and Israel reached a clear understanding about natural growth 

Elliot Abrams, Wall Street Journal, 26 June 2009

Europe must respond to Obama on Middle East 

Chris Patten and others, Guardian, 26 June 2009

Netanyahu’s Settlement Smoke Screens 

Gershom Gorenberg, Washington Post, 27 June 2009

What a Freeze Can’t Do 

David Ignatius, Washington Post, 28 June 2009

Israel May Shift on Settlements Freeze Amid Broader Effort

Ethan Bronner, New York Times, 28 June 2009

End the Spat With Israel 

Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, 29 June 2009

Busting Myths in the Middle East 

Gregory Scoblete, Real Clear World, 1 July 2009

A Road Map to Nowhere: Obama’s refusal to dub Israeli settlements illegal is undermining any hope of Middle East peace

Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett, Foreign Policy, 1 July 2009

Agreements must be honored

Dov Weissglass, Ynetnews, 2 July 2009

Two States, Still one Exit: is the two-state solution an obsolete strategy?

Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect, 2 July 2009

The Turn Against Israel 

John Podhoretz, Commentary, July/August

Israel Must Avoid an American Ambush

Caroline Glick, Real Clear World, 8 July 2009

Chosen Words  A pollster’s recommendations on how to sell Americans on the idea of Israeli settlements.

Dan Ephron, Newsweek, 10 July 2009

See also here, here, and here

Outposts for blocs 

Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz, 12 July 2009

Bibi’s Choice Israel approaches a moment of decision on Iran’s nuclear threat

Peter Berkowitz, Weekly Standard, 13 July 2009

Peace Out: The decline of Israel’s progressive movement 

Helena Cobban, Boston Review, July/August 2009

Despite Jewish Concerns, Obama Keeps Up Pressure on Israel

Tony Karon, Time, 14 July 2009

What happened on September 13 

Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz, 15 July 2009

Window of Opportunity for a Two-State Solution: Policy Recommendations to the Obama Administration on the Israeli-Palestinian Front  

Brian Katulis, Marc Lynch, Robert C. Adler, Centre for American Progress, 15 July 2009

How to Achieve a Lasting Peace: Stop Focusing on the Settlements 

Ehud Olmert, Washington Post, 17 July 2009
 

Obama’s Foreign Policy Report Card

David Ignatius, Real Clear World, 19 July 2009

An Unworkable Compromise: The Palestinians lose on a ‘settlement freeze’ too

Elliott Abrams, National Review Online, 20 July 2009

A Pause for Serious Self-Reflection

Jonathan Tobin, Real Clear World, 20 July 2009

A temporary Mideast deal could break the stalemate

Shira Herzog, Globe and Mail, 22 July 2009

Obama Means Business on Settlements

Debra Delee, Real Clear World, 22 July 2009-08-20

What Israel Needs to Know About Sharia: Israel and the United States should understand the Islamic laws Hamas obeys to begin finding solutions for a peaceful coexistence

Osama Abu-Irshaid, Paul Scham, Foreign Policy, 22 July

Working on their relationship 

Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz, 23 July 2009

The President Takes a Hard Line on Israel

Mackubin Thomas Owens, Wall Street Journal, 24 July 2009

Tough on Israel Why President Obama’s battle against Jewish settlements could prove self-defeating 

Editorial, Washington Post, 30 July 2009

Israel and Palestine: Not quite as gloomy as they look: The contours of a peace deal are clear. But who has the courage to draw them?

Economist, 30 July 2009

World Citizen: Obama Course Correction Needed for Mideast Peace

Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review, 30 July 2009

The path out of Palestinian irrelevance 

Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, 1 August 2009

Why Israel Is Nervous 

Elliott Abrams, Wall Street Journal, 1 August 2009
 

Speech at the National Defense College Graduation Ceremony

Benjamin Netanyahu, Real Clear World, 3 August 2009

Fatah meets again with peace, once more, in the balance

Adrian Blomfield, Telegraph, 4 August 2009

Hamas 2.0: The Islamic Resistance Movement Grows Up

Michael Bröning, Foreign Affairs, 5 August 2009

Peace Talks: Hey Obama, don’t waste your time giving a speech in Israel

Shmuel Rosner, New Republic, 5 August 2009

U.S. Wants One - Year Israeli Settlement Halt - Report

Reuters, 6 August 2009

Obama Follows the Mideast Road Map

Yossi Alpher, Jerusalem Post, 7 August 2009.

Same as it ever was?

The pro-Israel lobby, long seen as an immutable part of American politics, may be headed toward obsolescence.

Michelle Goldberg, American Prospect, 7 August 2009.\

Obama’s Israeli Settlement Dilemma

David Makovsky, Real Clear World, 8 August 2009

The Two-State Solution Doesn’t Solve Anything 

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, New York Times, 10 August 2009

Agha, Malley, and some other ideas

Helena Cobban, 11 August 2009

Obama PR Is No Middle East Policy

Jonathan Tobin, Real Clear World, 11 August 2009

Why the Left Should Support Israeli Settlements

Michael Freund, Real Clear World, 13 August 2009

If they won’t make peace we may have to make it for them 

Tony Karon, National, 15 August 2009

Quiet slicing of the West Bank makes abstract prayers for peace obscene

Condemnation of 'illegal' settlements and violence only blurs the reality of what the Israeli state is sanctioning, day by day

Slavoj Zizek, Guardian, Tuesday 18 August 2009

A Mideast Test For President Do-Everything

Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, 23 August 2009

US must choose between the two voices of Hamas

Amr Hamzawy, National, 24 August 2009

Palestinians to set up own state to end the occupation

James Hider, Australian, 25 August 2009

Israel to offer deal on settlers, but not Jerusalem

John Lyons, Australian, 26 August 2009

Barack Obama on brink of deal for Middle East peace talks

• US to adopt much tougher line over Iran's nuclear ambitions
• Israel to freeze construction of settlements on West Bank
• France and Russia offer to host Middle East peace conference

Guardian, 25 August 2009

Peace plans come and go. Obama may have to try a wholly new approach

Unless talks address the core, existential issues of 1948, optimism about a new Middle East effort is likely to fade fast

Jonathan Freedland, Guardian, 25 August 2009

Candidly speaking: There may be worse to come

Isi Liebler, Jerusalem Post, 25 August 2009

De-facto deliberations

Alan Baker, Jerusalem Post, 26 August 2009

U.S. drops demand for Israel building freeze in East Jerusalem

Barak Ravid, Ha'aretz, 27 August 2009

Obama's Mideast vision: Confusion

Michael Young, Daily Star, 27 August 2009

The Peace Test for Netanyahu

Philip Stephens, Financial Times, 27 August 2009

Mideast Rejectionists Line Up Against Obama

David Pollock, Real Clear World, 4 September 2009

Obama's Middle East Teachable Moment

Michael Freund, Real Clear World, 9 September 2009

How Obama Hopes to Restart Mideast Peace Talks

Massimo Calabresi, Time,  9 September 2009

The New Israel Lobby

James Traub, New York Times,  9 September 2009

World Citizen: Is Netanyahu Planning to Work with Obama?

Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review, 10 September 2009

Make the Palestinian state an essential fact on the ground

Ziad Asali, National, 10 September 2009

Obama's impossible ambition

The US president's intention to bridge the divide between Israel and Palestine is bound to fail

Benny Morris, Guardian, 11 September 2009

Bibi's semester report

Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz, 11 September 2009

Listen Up: The arrogance of the advice-givers

Barry Rubin, 11 September 2009

Netanyahu's Tactical Victories

David Horovitz, Jerusalem Post, 12 September 2009

Why U.S.-Iran Talks Are Good for Israel

Meir Javedanfar Real Clear World,16 September 2009

How to Put Pressure on Netanyahu

Pierre Razoux, International Herald Tribune, 16 September 2009

Obama Is Heading for Mideast Failure

Steven Rosen, Foreign Policy, 18 September 2009

The Myth That Fuels Mideast Conflict

Bob Feferman, Real Clear World, 19 September 2009

Obama stumped by Israel as all world's problems arrive

Obama Must Follow Balfour on Palestinian State

Uriel Abulof, Real Clear World, 22 September 2009

Obama may have lost some face in the Middle East, but don't write him off yet

Jonathan Freedland, Guardian, 22 September 2009

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Not for faint hearts

Editorial, Guardian, 23 September 2009

White House Pivots in Mideast Peace Bid

Helene Cooper and Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 September 2009

More Than Just a Photo-Op

Daniel Levy, Foreign Policy, 23 September 2009

Obama Says U.S. Won’t Accept Settlements in West Bank (Update1)

Janine Zacharia, Bloomberg.com, 23 September 2009

Obama has joined the Arabs in falling for Netanyahu’s trap

Editorial, National,  24 September 2009

Toward peace in the Middle East

Aaron David Miller, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 2009

Speech at the UN General Assembly

Benjamin Netayahu, Real Clear World, 25 September 2009

No way out

David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy, 25 September 2009

Netanyahu runs a victory lap – but what has he won?

Tony Karon, 27 September 2009

Building Momentum for Mid-East Peace: Bring Back the Multilaterals

Steven L. Spiegel and Michael D. Yaffe, Israel Policy Forum, 29 September 2009

The Quartet's Shift on Middle East Peace

Dore Gold, Real Clear World, 2 October 2009

Obama's Next Middle East Challenge

James Zogby, Huffington Post, 2 October 2009

Obama and Israel: Betrayal in the Broken Places

Benjamin Kerstein, New Ledger, 5 October 2009

The pieces are in place, but no one wants an intifada

Tony Karon, National, 11 October 2009

The Ugly Premise of 'Settlement' Opponents

R. James Woolsey, Wall Street Journal, 11 October, 2009

Leadership failure betrays the Palestinians

Editorial, National, 12 October 2009

The Latest Blow to Palestinian Unity Efforts

Daniel Levy, Prospects for Peace,  13 October 2009

Israel needs legitimacy to wage war and peace

Ari Shavit, Haaretz, 15 October 2009

The Israeli Left Implodes

Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect, 22 October 2009

Obama's good intentions run into Mideast reality

Shira Hertzog, Globe and Mail, 22 October 2009
 

‘Peace Out of Necessity’; Despite the incredible obstacles and numerous setbacks in negotiations with the Palestinians, Israeli President Shimon Peres remains optimistic

Lally Weymouth, Newsweek Web Exclusive, 23 October  2009

Whatever Bibi Wants, Bibi Gets: Will the real Barack Obama please stand up to Israel?

Yousef Munayyer, Foreign Policy, 21 October 2009

Unsettling Questions: Hillary Clinton's retreat from the previous US demand for a settlement freeze leaves the administration's strategy for Israeli-Palestinian peace in limbo.

Daniel Levy, Foreign Policy, 3 November 2009

For sale – one Middle East peace strategy (hardly used)

Emile Hokayem
The National, 4  November 2009

Mofaz in the footsteps of Sharon

Ari Shavit Haaretz, 6 November 2009

Rethinking a Two-State Solution

Interviewee: Robert Malley, Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman,
CFR.org 9 November, 2009

After Abu Mazin? Letting the Scales Fall From Our Eyes

Nathan Brown, Carnegie Endowment, Web Commentary, 10 November 2009

Policy, Pressure, and Peace:  

If the United States wants peace in the Middle East and Afghanistan, it's going to have to use its leverage.   
Tim Fernholz, American Prospect, 11 November 2009 |

Fresh hope of resumed peace talks

Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, 13 November 2009

Abbas must unilaterally declare Palestinian state

Yossi Sarid, Haaretz, 14 November 2009

Lieberman warns against '67 borders

Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, 14 November 2009

Netanyahu Threatens to Retaliate if Palestinians Declare Statehood

Fox News, 15 November 2009

Would Israel accept a state-and-a-half solution?

Akiva Eldar, Haaretz, 16 November 2009

The Mofaz Plan: A Permanent Palestinian State in Temporary Borders In Advance of Final Status Talks

Israel Policy Forum, 16 November 16

Next, Locusts? The abject failure of the Obama administration's Middle East policy.

Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard, 16 November 2009

Palestinians call for EU to back independence

• Frustration at impasse on 'two-state project'
• Israel warns of retaliation over any unilateral move
Ian Black, Guardian, 16 November 2009

Third Intifada Is Already Getting Started

Dror Bar-Yosef, Real Clear World, 17 November 2009

Spoilers: The End of the Peace Process

Elliott Abrams and Michael Singh, World Affairs, 17 November 2009

Middle East peace: Is two-state solution kaput?

If a two-state deal isn't reached by 2011, then Palestinians should push for a one-state solution.
John V. Whitbeck, Christian Science Monitor, 17 November 2009

The Only Hope Left? Why a unilaterally declared state might be the only one that Palestine can get.

Daoud Kuttab, Foreign Policy, 17 November 2009

Israel's enemy within: A rising militancy from the Jewish settlements

Matt McAllester, GlobalPost, 19 November 2009

How to Build a Palestinian State

David Ignatius, 19 November 2009

The New Politics of Conscientious Objection in Israel 

Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect, 19 November2009

Mideast Solution Is Up to Netanyahu

Jim Hoagland, Real Clear World, 22 November 2009

For the Palestinians, all roads now lead to the UN

Tony Karon, National, 22 November 2009

Obama’s damaging silence on Israel

Max Hastings, Financial Times, 25 November 2009

The Illegal-Settlements Myth

David M. Phillips, Commentary, December 2009

Israel's just fears of a Palestinian state

A return to 1967 borders would put most Israelis in rocket range. The EU needs to see that a two-state solution is complex 
Carlo Strenger, The Guardian,  2 December 2009

Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over?

Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, New York Review of Books, 3 December 2009

Six Months After Cairo, Obama Must Deliver

Yasser M. El-Shimy, World Politics Review,  4 December 2009

Needed for Mideast peace: a sense of urgency

Martin Indyk, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 2009

EU could bring peace to Middle East

The union must stop free-riding on US policy on the Israel-Palestine conflict – offering both sides membership could be key
William Nitze and Leon Hadar, Guardian,  4 December 2009

Israeli settlements are more than legitimate

Critics may assail them on other grounds, but no one can deny that they are legal. In fact, the 1922 Mandate for Palestine encourages them.
 
Eric Rozenman, Los Angeles Times, 11 December 2009

Europe’s road to a new Jerusalem

Chris Patten, Financial Times, 14 December 2009

When Will It Be Our Time?

Mustafa Barghouthi, New York Times, 16 December 2009

Palestinians Need National Identity Without Anti-Semitism

Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Jerusalem Post, 16 December 2009

The Settlement Freeze That Isn't

If there were any doubt of Benjamin Netanyahu's commitment to the settlement enterprise, he dispelled it this week.    
Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect, 17 December 2009

Hamas still wants to liberate 'all of Palestine'

Ari Shavit, Haaretz 17 December 2009

Steps to create an Israel-Palestine

A one-state solution in the area is not as farfetched as it might seem
Jonathan Kuttab, Los Angeles Times, 20 December 2009

Middle East's No-War, No-Peace Option

Barry Rubin. Jerusalem Post, 21 December 2009

We are failing Gaza

The British government and the EU must live up to their international responsibility to help the besieged 1.5 million people of Gaza
Chris Patten, Telegraph, 22 December 2009

2010: Make or Break Year in Middle East

Barry Rubin, Real Clear World, 29 December 2009

Israel's Right to Build Settlements

Daniel Tauber, Real Clear World, 7 January 2010

More cause and effect in our ever-expanding "war"

Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 7 January 2010

Sobering up on Arab-Israeli Peace

Aaron David Miller, 7 January 2010

Starting from the end

Yoel Marcus, Haaretz, 10 January 2010

U.S. ambition alone won't forge Mideast peace

Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, 11 January 2010

A gleam of Mideast hope

Shira Herzog, Globe and Mail, 12 January 2010

Obama Vs. Israel

Michael Freund, Jewish Press, 13 January 2010

Welcome a more activist EU on Palestine

Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, 16 January 2010

Palestine: Another Approach

John Kilcullen, World Politics Review, or Real Clear World, 20 Jan 2010

Time for George Mitchell to resign

Stephen M. Walt,  Foreign Policy, 22 January 2010

All Process, No Peace: The Obama administration needs to press the reset button on its Middle East diplomacy.

Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard, 25 January 2010

Mideast Peace Would Spell the End of Bin Laden

Bruce Riedel, Daily Beast, 25 January 2010

Behind the Settlements

Daniel Kurtzer The American Interest online March-April 2010

Peace with Palestinians Would Stop Iran

A. B. Yehoshua, Haaretz, 10 February 2010

Obama Needs to Hear Hard Mideast Truths

 Roger Cohen, New York Times, 12 February 2010

Allies Divided

Benjamin E. Schwartz, American Interest Online March-April 2010.

It’s back to square one in Palestine

Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, 13 February 2010

Israel Gets More Comfortable with Status Quo

Tony Karon, Time, 15 February 2010

The Israel-Palestine peace process--More than just a charade?

The Economist, 10 March 2010

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