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…

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…

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

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 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,…

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…