On this episode of “Occupied Thoughts”  Peter Beinart is joined by Lior Amihai, Executive Director of Yesh Din, to discuss Israel’s ongoing de facto annexation…

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To subscribe to this report, please click here.…

In this episode of the FMEP podcast “Occupied Thoughts,” Peter Beinart is joined by the Executive Director of Peace Now, Shaqued Morag, to discuss the…

In this new episode of Occupied Thoughts (recorded 11/4/19) Peter Beinart explores the texture of Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip in a conversation with…

“The president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Lara Friedman, also spoke at the conference titled “The United States, Israel & Palestine: An Assessment,” as part of a panel that also included University of Maryland Professor Shibley Telhami and former U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem Jake Walles. Friedman stressed the importance of running a reality check by looking at the facts and being realistically strategic. The first certainty is that the Trump team’s promises, stances, and actions on the Israel-Palestine conflict have been almost perfectly aligned, unlike on other issues. “This administration is chaotic and reckless and constantly doing random things on the Middle East, but on Israel-Palestine, they have been coherent, and cogent, and consistent,” she said. But being coherent and producing sound policy are two different things…