Understanding the PLO Mission Crisis – Key Documents
Over the weekend new broke that the Trump Administration was closing the PLO mission in Washington, DC. To help people understand the laws that led…
Over the weekend new broke that the Trump Administration was closing the PLO mission in Washington, DC. To help people understand the laws that led…
On July 21, Omar el-Abed, a 19-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Khobar, brutally murdered three Israeli civilians inside the settlement of Halamish.…
Alaa Tartir from Al-Shabaka has a new policy brief on how the Palestinian Authority’s security forces are subcontractors for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank:…
The passing of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding generation of statesmen, has prompted an avalanche of eulogies from the international…
Israel, and any other country involved in asymmetrical warfare needs a clearer set of rules for what it can do as well as for what it cannot. International Humanitarian Law was written at a time where regular militaries fighting each other defined most warfare. That is no longer the case. Consideration of modern conflicts as well as monitoring and enforcement mechanisms is a crucial next step. Gaza is an opportunity to take that step. We should not let it be buried.
Israeli unity government: Bad for Israel, Bad for the Palestinians, Bad for America, Bad for Peace
How can we better address the suffering of victims and their families without making the political process even harder?
The idea that the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead has been repeated so many times in the past several years that it…
On December 31, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas closed out a year of stinging defeats by signing on to 18 international accords. Included among these was…
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has now moved a step closer to making good on its threat to go to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and…