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What To Do Next
I am as disappointed and angry, and frankly shaken to my core, about what happened yesterday as anyone out there. That Trump is now the president-elect does not change the fact that he is uniquely...
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Trump and the Virtues of Israeli Caution
The Israeli right has embraced Donald Trump’s election as if the country has been granted a new lease on life. Naftali Bennett has declared the end of the era of the Palestinian state and shared his...
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UNSCR 2334
In the wake of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, there are two points that need to be emphasized. The first has to do with the resolution itself, the second with how we got here and...
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Trump’s Time Machine Settlements Policy
A few weeks into the Trump presidency, the nascent stirrings of an Israel policy appear to be developing. Where President Trump will land on two states, Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the...
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The Signal and the Noise in the Barghouti Op-Ed
On Sunday, Marwan Barghouti published an op-ed in the New York Times. To read it without being versed in Israeli-Palestinian affairs, one would be forgiven for thinking that Barghouti is the...
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Trump’s Treacherous Trip
President Trump is making his first trip overseas next week, and unlike President Obama’s decision to fly past Israel on his first Middle East trip, the Holy Land is on Trump’s itinerary. Heading to...
View ArticleThe Fruits of a Failed Settlement Policy
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, treating all settlements as equal in the eyes of the United States is a dangerous game. The reason is that if all settlements are the same, then the...
View ArticleThe Perilous Status of the Palestinian Mission in DC
Over the weekend, news emerged that the status of the Palestinian mission to the United States was in danger. While the Palestinian Authority does not have an embassy in Washington since the U.S. does...
View ArticleThe Most Important Meeting of Netanyahu’s Life
Prime Minister Netanyahu is coming to the United States in two weeks for the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, and while here he will be meeting with President Trump. This will be the fourth meeting...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s Self-Constructed Trump Prison
It came as no surprise to anyone that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to Washington brought with it the pageantry of an Israeli leader who could not be happier about dealing with the current American...
View ArticleHow To Evaluate Trump’s Withdrawal From the Iran Deal
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, universally and colloquially known as the Iran deal, was never a perfect agreement. It relied on too many assumptions about Iran’s future behavior, purposely...
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About Those State Department Maps
In a story that made waves this week, Adam Entous reported in the New Yorker on the State Department maps showing the status of Israeli settlement activity that made such a big impression on President...
View ArticleThoughts In The Wake Of Pittsburgh
The massacre of Jews sitting in a Pittsburgh shul on Shabbat morning has been an emotionally searing experience for American Jews, me included. Tablet’s Alana Newhouse smartly noted how aninut – the...
View ArticleAmerican Jewry’s Trump Virus
I sometimes wonder whether the American Jewish community will survive the Trump presidency. I do not mean that American Jews are under some form of existential threat from President Trump, which is...
View ArticleTrump’s Leverage Over Netanyahu
From the day President Trump set foot in the White House, Israeli leaders have argued that he is the best friend they have ever had. Many of the Trump administration’s policies, from recognition of...
View ArticleWhy Empty Annexation Threats Are Still Threatening
In what was intended to be a dramatic announcement on Tuesday with his cabinet members in attendance, Prime Minister Netanyahu for the first time revealed his specific plan for proceeding with West...
View ArticleTime To Stop Talking About Talks
Whenever a new president takes office, speculation abounds about how long it will take for the incoming administration to dive into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and try to solve it. In some cases,...
View ArticleWhat To Do When Israel Is Not The Center Of The World
If there has been an abiding theme to President Biden’s Israel policy so far, it has been that, for good or bad, the road to Washington does not run through Jerusalem. Israel’s centrality was a...
View ArticleWhat’s the Purpose of Aid to the Palestinians?
President Biden and his team have made no secret of the fact that at the top of their list of priorities with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is reversing President Trump’s policy of...
View ArticleThe Opportunity Presented By The New Israeli Government
The last time that Israel had a new prime minister take office before Prime Minister Bennett did so last week, it came at the beginning of a new U.S. president’s term as it has this time. In 2009, the...
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