Today, policymakers and the public alike have surrendered in the face of dysfunctional domestic politics and the passions that drive the conflict. They are bored…

In June, the top-level Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria hand-picked by Netanyahu in March rejected the international consensus, and…

Israel’s ruling institutions—the Knesset and the courts—are the instruments for imparting a stamp of legality on an extraordinary system that has all but emptied the…

The Israel Defense Forces and civilian police have, when called upon, obeyed decisions by Israel’s political leadership to evacuate settlers and settlements. More recently, however,…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has not ended the occupation, but it has recorded one significant accomplishment. As one Israeli commentator explained, “Today it seems that…

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…