New Bid for Mideast Talks after Five-Year Hiatus
2013-07-23
Advertisements On Monday. The Elders, including Jimmy Carter, spoke in Washington to the question “Can the Two-State Solution Be Saved?” I report on Carter’s answer for Inter Press Service.Continue Reading
New Israel-Palestine Talks: Is Peace Really Possible?
2013-07-20
Advertisements This piece originally appeared at LobeLog. I’m always pleased when something surprises me in the realm of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy. It doesn’t happen often. Today’s announcement that Secretary of State John Kerry has apparently succeeded at bringing Israel and the Palestinian Authority back to the table was one such surprise. The announcementContinue Reading
Separate But Federal
2012-03-21
Advertisements My latest piece is up at Souciant. I’ve been spending a good deal of space in the past year on the idea that the two-state solution as previously conceived is dead. Today, I try to start a conversation about where we go from here, for those of us who believe, as IContinue Reading
Obama’s Speech: Not Cairo 2009
2011-05-19
Advertisements Barack Obama’s much-anticipated speech has now come and gone, and those of us who had very low expectations for it were not disappointed. There was nothing new, and much that was tired, familiar and demonstrably ineffective regarding Israel and the Palestinians, and a decidedly tepid response to the ArabContinue Reading