Lara Friedman op-ed: Time to Take Trump at His Word on Israel-Palestine
Since well before Election Day, Donald Trump and his key advisors made clear that a Trump administration would blow-up longstanding U.S. policy on Israel-Palestine. Whether…
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Making America’s Mideast Policy Great Again?
Originally published in Huffington Post Back in February 2016, a New York bankruptcy lawyer named David Friedman published an opinion piece in a far right…
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Civil Society Reacts to President Trump’s Announcements on Jerusalem
In response to President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel (and his directive to move the U.S. Embassy there), several FMEP grantees…
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Reflections on the Death of the Peace Process
Originally published in the Times of Israel One memorable night in August 1993, I went to sleep in a city inhabited by two peoples who…
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Locking Palestinians In A Flawed Peace Process
The Trump administration’s recent decision to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) mission in Washington—the de facto embassy of the Palestinians—to remain open, despite a law that…
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In Memory of Calvin Cobb (1924-2017)
IN MEMORIUM CALVIN H. COBB, JR., 1924-2017 Calvin Cobb, a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, died…
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New report explains how Israel restricts Palestinian development in East Jerusalem
A new report by Israeli NGOs Ir Amim (“City of David”) and Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights reveals how Israeli policy is designed to restrict…
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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…
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Lara Friedman: Europe’s Israel-Palestinian policy in the Trump era
Since the 1978 Israel-Egypt Camp David accords, it has been a sine qua non of Middle East diplomatic wisdom that US leadership is essential to…
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New Al-Shabaka Report: “Surveillance of Palestinians and the Fight for Digital Rights”
FMEP grantee Al-Shabaka published a new report, “Surveillance of Palestinian and the Fight for Digital Rights,” exploring how modern technologies have been integrated into Israel’s…