"This will make it more difficult for Abbas to go back into his old patterns," said Mouin Rabbani, an Amman-base...Read more
U.S. Should Step Aside as Mideast Broker
WHEN IT comes to Arab-Israeli diplomacy, the American monopoly on mediation needs to be terminated. The reason is simple: Washington's systematic failure over several decades has disqualified it from acting without adult supervision.
Prisoner Exchange Levels Hamas, Fatah Playing Field
News that Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) had reached agreement on a prisoner exchange instantaneously displaced the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) bid for full United Nations membership from the headlines in mid-October. Arguably, Hamas and Israel had a common int...Read more
Hate Speech Finds a Mainstream Platform
It is not often that major international publications respond to crackpot opinion pieces in other newspapers. Yet Robert L. Bernstein’s latest tantrum against the Palestinians, which the Washington Post published instead of steering the author to an extremist website, was so far be...Read more
Abbas’s Next Move
Mahmoud Abbas’s address to the United Nations General A...Read more
