For President Bush to breathe real life into the road map for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, he must first insist that two prerequisites are immediately met: The Palestinian Authority must publically recognize and unequivocally accept the Jewish/Israeli historic right to exist in
Unless Israelis and Palestinians dramatically alter their psychological dispositions, prospects for peace will remain illusionary.
The second Intifadah has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict creating, for each side, a new psychological disposition: to deny each othe
This article is excerpted from the introduction of Alon Ben-Meir's new book, A War We Must Win, to be published this Summer.
We must defeat terrorism not only because we cannot tolerate the threat of terror as a way of life, but because, regardless of its source or cause,
After more than two years of strategic neglect that brought the Israelis and Palestinians to the brink of disaster, President Bush, under intense pressure from his staunch ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and many Arab heads-of-state decided to advance his ideas about a road map
How Prime Minister Sharon will capitalize on his overwhelming victory in last Tuesday's parliamentary elections remains unclear, and Sharon himself may not know the answer. On the one hand, he would like to be remembered as the leader who brought peace to his people, yet, on the other,
The deafening silence of Jewish and Islamic scholars and religious leaders in response to the tragic events have taken place over the past two years in the Middle East brings to mind, in a curious way, a biblical reference to the land of Canaan (present-day Israel, the West Bank, Ga
Every time I travel to the Middle East and visit Israel, I take long walks around many of the historic sites in Jerusalem. Invariably, I end my excursions at the Temple Mount. There I linger, watching scores of Muslims and other visitors of all colors and creeds as they flock to the grea
President George W. Bush's road map to a Palestinian state has become, as soon as it was made public, partly outdated, partly impractical and it will soon be partly irrelevant if the relentless violence between Israel and the Palestinians does not end immediately. The only element that
Throughout their century-long struggle, the Palestinians have had many defining moments. Yet they were mostly squandered for a variety of reasons; the most pervasive of these has been a lack visionary leadership that could seize the moment. As the Palestinians prepare to go the ballot bo