Listening to the other half: personal narratives of Israeli and Palestinian women
A conflict cannot be solved- and genuine peace cannot be reached, if the voices of one half of the population is not listened to on... Read More
Bernie Sanders and the French initiative
By raising the need for the US to play an even-handed role to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sanders has introduced a new... Read More
If you can’t beat them, ‘like’ them
States should use the increasing power of social media networks and work with them to achieve foreign policy objectives.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict – breaking the deadlock
With this favourable climate, the current diplomatic efforts and some mutual confidence-building, we have the will to solve once and for all the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... Read More
The truth about Israel’s national security
The time has come for the Israelis to reject the scare tactics and false claims of the Netanyahu government. The usurpation of Palestinian land and... Read More
The Palestinian leadership – to where?
The Palestinian leadership chose to battle Israel on every front, depriving their people of the prospect of living in peace and denying the inescapable reality... Read More
A plea for reason – an open letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu
Israel must determine its own destiny and not leave it to the Palestinians’ whims. Netanyahu claims that the Palestinians do not want peace, but by... Read More
Erecting a giant prison for all Israelis
Instead of reaching out to the Palestinians and the whole international community to reach an agreement with the Palestinians, Netanyahu seeks to turn Israel into... Read More
Terrains of resistance – from occupation, exile or containment to the world
The Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation is both deeply local and ever more international. Campaigns and direct engagement is ever more international regarding the actors... Read More
Civil disobedience is the Palestinians’ best option
Even after seven decades of bloody conflict, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians can afford to resign themselves to the status quo. They have the... Read More
The dire consequences of revenge and retribution
When will ordinary Israelis and Palestinians realize that revenge does not offer a cure to the endemic conflict, but is a curse that will continue... Read More
Israel and the two-state dilemma
Israel insists on seeing its conflict with the Palestinians in ideological terms, stymieing all attempts to reach a workable settlement.
Israel Firsters
For the past few months Israelis and Palestinians have experienced a wave of terrorist attacks mainly on civilian targets. Peace education may have an answer.
No peace and quiet for Israel until the occupation ends
Palestinian activists are faced with knowing that their unarmed resistance, whilst it has attracted international civil society support, has failed to exercise any leverage over... Read More
In the grip of powerful illusions
The resumption of peace talks will go nowhere unless Israelis and Palestinians change their prejudiced perception and resistance to and fear of change, and finally... Read More
Israel’s occupation is morally indefensible
Israel’s occupation cannot be defended on moral grounds or in terms of national security. Israel can defend itself and prevail over any of its enemies... Read More
Abandoning the Quartet in favor of the Arab Peace Initiative
The Quartet must be abandoned in favor of the Arab Peace Initiative, which has been gaining momentum in recent months absent any other viable alternative... Read More
How the ideological siege undermines the peace process
The readily accepted the narrative of the Netanyahu government that there is no negotiating partner, and that the Palestinians are out to destroy Israel and... Read More
Delicate dilemma – why the US must sustain Israel’s security
The present volatile situation in the Middle East is such that the US needs Israel more than ever if it is to keep secure its... Read More
Why have past Israeli-Palestinian negotiations failed?
The more prominent reasons behind the collapse of prior Israeli-Palestinian negotiations include disagreement on rules of engagement, a failure to delink the conflicting issues, a lack... Read More
A conducive geopolitical environment for Israeli-Palestinian peace
Due to unfolding regional events, the shifting geopolitical dynamics within the Arab states, the changing nature of the bilateral relations between Israel and the Palestinians,... Read More
Time to end the Israeli occupation
Dismissing Palestinian resistance as a criminal act is only legitimising Israeli offensives in the name of self-defence. And in the pursuit of this self-defence, Israel... Read More
How to fight “Facebook Terrorists”
Whilst social media is not one of the causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, its features make it an effective, tactical tool that can be used... Read More
Before it is too late
The mutual acrimonious charges and counter-charges by Israeli and Palestinian leaders do nothing but instigate ever more violence. If Netanyahu and Abbas really want to... Read More
The absence of real commitment to peace
Peace is becoming ever more elusive as both sides continue to hold onto what appear to be irreconcilable positions when in fact Israeli-Palestinian coexistence is... Read More