Monthly Essay ·
There Never Will Be a Palestinian State. So What’s Next?
By Elliott AbramsOctober 7 was not Palestine’s independence day, but the final nail in the two-state solution’s coffin. Is confederation with Jordan all that remains?
Peace Process
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Response ·
The Peace Process Failed, but Its Bad Assumptions Live On
By Gadi TaubHow mistaken beliefs about human nature contributed to flawed strategy.
Response ·
The Strategic Failures of October 7, One Year Later: A Symposium
By The EditorsA diverse group of writers engage in a vigorous debate over what went wrong on October 7, who's really to blame, and how that should influence Israel today and long into the future.
Monthly Essay ·
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
By Shany MorHow four interlocking ways of thinking combined to leave the Jewish state at the mercy of its enemies.
Monthly Essay ·
Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip
By Shany MorThree catastrophes, all marked by euphoria at the start and denial at the end, have shaped the Palestinian predicament. Has the fourth arrived, and is the same dynamic playing out?
Response ·
Stuck on the Wrong Road to Peace
By Shany MorIn thrall to a moral impulse rather than a real strategy for peacemaking in Israel, America's peace processors won't stop, won't learn, and won't succeed.
Response ·
Actually, Everybody Recognizes Oslo Failed
By Michael KoplowThe challenges to peace today are different than they were thirty or even ten years ago. It's better to focus on them rather than beating an already well-flogged horse.
Response ·
Saving Israel in Spite of Herself
By Michael DoranWhen Americans take a position on Israel, they're not simply talking about Israel. They're also talking about America’s moral character.
Monthly Essay ·
The Return of the Peace Processors
By Shany MorFor decades, America's foreign-policy establishment has, in the name of peace, incentivized conflict in the Middle East. Now that it's back in power, can it learn from its mistakes?
Observation ·
Doves’ Labor Lost: How Israel’s Once-Dominant Party Faded Into Insignificance
By Shany MorEven after a decade of electoral failure, the Labor party prefers to console itself with platitudes about the reasons why. It won't be successful until it confronts the truth.
Observation ·
Dilemmas and Distractions at the Premiere of “Incitement”
By Norman KriegA bomb scare during the film about the murderer of Yitzḥak Rabin prompts musings on behavior private and public.
Observation ·
What Did (and Didn’t) Happen in Room 16 of the American Colony Hotel
By Martin KramerIt's said that the Oslo peace process was born in that room in Jerusalem in 1992. The truth is much different.
Observation ·
The Fantasy of an International Jerusalem
By Martin KramerOne-hundred years ago, over a lunch, the internationalization of Jerusalem became irrelevant—and it remains so.
Response ·
Can Israel Change Strategic Course?
By Evelyn GordonIn the long-term absence of peace with the Palestinians, better to cease pursuing the unattainable and adopt policies that can strengthen the country at home and abroad.
Response ·
Israel and the Need to “Do Something”
By Amnon LordWhy the perennial temptation to do something, anything, to break out of uncertainty with the Palestinians must be resisted.
Observation ·
Oslo on My Mind
By Dr. Ruth WisseMemories of the day, twenty-two years ago, when the Oslo Accords were signed—and of the price Israel paid for that “terrible mistake.”
Response ·
The Peace Process Is Defunct—but Israel Mustn’t Appear to Be Giving Up on It
By Elliott AbramsIsrael's allies won't support an out-and-out renunciation of the two-state solution.
