The Madrid Peace Conference convened two decades ago in a spirit of great optimism. However it was Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, dragged to the meeting…

As political theatre, September’s Israeli-Palestinian clash at the UN proved to be an anticlimax. In dueling speeches before the UN General-Assembly, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin…

The idea that the existence and expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories were not incompatible with the march toward a historic peace between…

As the September date for consideration of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s UN bid for recognition and state membership approaches, the attention of Israelis, as well…

It is a measure of the stalemate now defining the Israeli-Palestinian peace process that the mere reassertion by US and Israeli leaders of long-held, if…

Having failed to win a settlement freeze and now focused on the extraordinary developments throughout the Arab world, Washington has apparently exhausted its ability to…

Despite declarations to the contrary, the U.S. effort to revitalize talks in the wake of the failure of the settlement freeze effort lacks both content…

Administration officials have often declared that the United States cannot want peace more than the parties themselves, but if there is a defining character to…

The Obama administration is now attempting to win from Israel a two month re-imposition of the moratorium in order to convince PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas…

The settlement moratorium is set to expire on September 27, 2010. While existing restrictions on settlement construction have had no lasting impact, their extension beyond…