Broader View

Will Palestinian Reconciliation Lead to a Hamas Takeover of the PLO? by Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 587, January-February 2012

The Case for Palestinian Nationalism by Clifford D. May, National Review, December 22, 2011

Video: The Evolving Palestinian Strategy, FDD Washington Forum, December 8, 2011 (panel discussion with Jonathan Schanzer (Foundation for Defense of Democracies), David Makovsky (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) and Professor Nathan Brown (George Washington University).

The revisionist history of Sari Nusseibeh by Efraim Karsh, Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2011

There Is No Palestinian State by Efraim Karsh, The Daily Beast, September 16, 2011

What Do the Arabs of East Jerusalem Really Want? by David Pollock, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 11, No. 14, September 7, 2011

Why Supporting Unilateral Palestinian Independence Is a Deadly Mistake by Barry Rubin, Ottawa Citizen, September 1, 2011

The Palestinian Christian Population by Ethan Felson, JCPA Background Paper, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, August 16, 2011

The narrative of a decreasing Palestinian Christian population is a central argument used to build support for and sympathy with their cause. […] [T]he demographic data are often distorted, sometimes significantly, in order to slander Israel. A population that is presented as drastically decreasing is, in reality, holding steady or slightly increasing.

The Palestinians’ Imaginary State by Steven J. Rosen, Foreign Policy, August 3, 2011

Palestine Lost: A new generation of Palestinian activists are less interested in forging a state than in winning their rights by Rachel Shabi, Financial Times, July 13, 2011

Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: Significance and Repercussions by Matti Steinberg, lecture at the Carnegie Endowment, Washington, DC, June 21, 2011 [with video]

What Are the Palestinians Planning after September? by Pinhas Inbari, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 11, No. 7, July 4, 2011

How Arab Media View a Declaration of Palestinian Statehood by Linda Menuhin Abdul Aziz, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 11, No. 5, June 27, 2011

U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians by Jim Zanotti, Congressional Research Service Report to Congress #RS22967, May 31, 2011

From FY2008 to the present, annual U.S. bilateral assistance to the West Bank and Gaza Strip has averaged over $600 million, including annual averages of over $200 million in direct budgetary assistance and over $100 million in non-lethal security assistance for the PA in the West Bank. Additionally, the United States is the largest single-state donor to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). However, whether UNRWA’s role is beneficial remains a polarizing question, particularly with respect to its presence in Hamas-controlled Gaza.

Circus of the Dancing Bears by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, May 4, 2011

The Hamas-Fatah unity agreement is a dangerous game – and a gift to Israel’s right wing.

The Damaging Deal Between Hamas and Fatah by Elliott Abrams, The Weekly Standard, April 29, 2011

Survey: Majority of Palestinians Believe Israel not Partner for Peace, WAFA Palestine News & Info Agency, April 5, 2011 (see also commentary by Barry Rubin)

• 72% of Palestinians surveyed believe that the Palestinians do not have a partner for peace in Israel.
• 71% believe that Hamas should change its position on the elimination of the state of Israel.
• The majority, 57%, identified themselves as Muslims first, 21% identified as Palestinians first.
• About 40% of the respondents believe that the Islamic caliphate is the best system for Palestinians, 24% chose a system like one of the Arab countries, and 12 % prefer a system like one of the European countries.

Countdown to September: Israel, the Palestinians, and the UN General Assembly by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 583, Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May-June 2011

A West Bank anachronism by Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Guardian, April 19, 2011: “The PLO goal of statehood has lost its glitter as a new national mood transforms the Palestinian struggle.”

All Set to Be a Failed State by Rick Richman, Commentary, April 13, 2011

Not to put too fine a point on it: if you can’t finish drafting your constitution; if your “president” is in the seventh year of his four-year term; if you have no functioning legislature and cannot hold parliamentary elections; if half your putative state is occupied by terrorists; if your education system is a cesspool of anti-Semitism; if you insist upon dedicating public squares to those who massacred civilians; if your ruling party is corroded by corruption; if you have no free press or independent judiciary; if you cannot implement anything in negotiations that you refuse to conduct in any event; and if you haven’t finished Phase I of the Roadmap . . . well, you might not be ready for a state.

Abbas’s Choice: Peace With Israel or Hamas by Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary, March 22, 2011

Are the Palestinians Ready for Peace? Palestinian Incitement as a Violation of International Legal Norms by  Alan Baker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, JCPA Issue Brief Vol. 10, No. 32, March 22, 2011

Book Review by Samara Greenberg: “Palestine Betrayed” by Efraim Karsh, National Security Policy Proceedings, Winter 2010

At the heart of Palestine Betrayed, Karsh argues that the Palestinian people were—and still are—betrayed by their very own leaders who promised to act with their best interests in mind but instead acted on personal ambitions. Never relinquishing their dreams of a pan-Arab empire under their homage, each leader refused to establish peaceful relations with the Jews, condemning the Palestinian people to decades of war and statelessness. [....] Palestine Betrayed is an extraordinarily well-documented account of  the events leading up to Israel’s creation.

Let’s stop pretending by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Jerusalem Post, March 14, 2011

Pressures Build Inside Fatah Ahead of Palestinian State Declaration by Dror Bar-Yosef, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 582, March-April 2011

Palestinians Bid for Recognition of Statehood and International Condemnation of Israel’s Settlements by L. Barkan, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Inquiry & Analysis Series Report No. 667, February 21, 2011

Traveling in the West Bank by Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post blog (Part 1, February 20, 2011) (Part 2, February 21, 2011)

Does the Arab World Truly Want a “Palestine”? A briefing by Efraim Karsh, Middle East Forum, January 25, 2011 [with audio recording of full talk]

The Erekat Retrenchment by Matthew RJ Brodsky, Ynetnews.com, January 26, 2011

What Palestinians Are Saying Online by Jonathan Schanzer, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2011

A National Economy — Without the Nation by Stacy Perman, Time, October 11, 2010

Poll: Support for Direct Negotiations in Case Cessation of Settlement Construction, WAFA Palestinian News Agency, October 14, 2010

In a question about how the Palestinians identify themselves, the results reveal  that 61% identify themselves as ‘Muslims first”, 20% as ‘Palestinians first’, and 15% as ‘human being first’, and 3% as ‘Arabs first.’

The Flotilla Farce by Danny Ayalon, Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2010

The Nakba Obsession by Sol Stern, City Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 2010

The Slow Death of Palestinian Democracy by Mustafa Barghouthi, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2010

Palestinians in the Arab World: Why the Silence? by Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson New York, July 20, 2010

A little rain on the Palestinian parade by Nathan Brown, Foreign Policy, July 1, 2010

Palestinian Corruption and Humanitarian Aid [video], by FreeMiddleEast

The Palestinians’ Dirty War by Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson New York, April 13, 2010

Palestinians Try a Less Violent Path to Resistance by Ethan Bronner, New York Times, April 6, 2010

The Fatah fairy tale by Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post, February 19, 2010

‘Honor Killings’ of Women in Palestinian Society by C. Jacob, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Inquiry & Analysis Series, Report No. 588, February 18, 2010

Palestinians: The New Peace Talks, What Fatah Can Deliver by Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson New York, February 9, 2010

The Forgotten Palestinian Refugees by Daniel Schwammenthal, Wall Street Journal, December 24, 2009

Beyond mere hatred [on Palestinian anti-Semitism] by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Jerusalem Post, December 15, 2009

Bethlehem’s exodus by Benny Avni, New York Post, December 23, 2009

How to Build a Palestinian State by David Ignatius, RealClearWorld, November 19, 2009

State of Terror by Yoram Ettinger, FrontPageMagazine.com, August 26, 2009

The lost Palestinian Jews by David Shamah, Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2009

How Fatah has evolved into the Palestinian Ba’ath party by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, August 10, 2009

Will Fatah Give Up the Armed Struggle at Its Sixth General Congress? by Pinhas Inbari, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 9, No. 6, August 4, 2009

Ponder This Over the Weekend, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Report #895, June 14, 2009

Are There Palestinians to Talk To? by Michael Sharnoff, NewMajority.com, May 28, 2009

Islam Today by Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson New York, May 18, 2009

In a Palestinian unity gov’t, Hamas wins by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, February 23, 2009

Evidence mounts of extrajudicial executions by Gaza’s Hamas rulers, Ma’an News Agency, January 30, 2009

Ignoring the Bloodshed in Gaza by Jonathan Schanzer, The Weekly Standard, January 9, 2009: The world turns a blind eye to the Palestinian civil war

Palestinian Civil War Casts Shadow Over Peace Talks by Jonathan Schanzer, JTA, November 23, 2008

Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence? by Steven Stotsky, Middle East Quarterly, Volume XV, Number 3, Summer 2008, pp. 23-30

Robert Kennedy’s 1948 Reports from Palestine by Lenny Ben-David, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 5, 2008

The Palestinians’ time is running out by Bradley Burston, Haaretz, May 9, 2008

1948, Israel, and the Palestinians—The True Story by Efraim Karsh, Commentary, May 2008

The Region: Self-made Nakba by Barry Rubin Jerusalem Post, May 19, 2008

The real Nakba by Shlomo Avineri, Haaretz, May 9, 2008

PMW: PA cozying up to America’s enemies by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, April 16, 2008

Defusing the Demographic Time Bomb by Bennett Zimmerman and Michael Wise The Jewish Policy Center, inFocus, Vo. 2 No. 1, Spring 2008

A Tale of Two Peoples by Dennis Prager, FrontPageMagazine.com, March 25, 2008 [Palestinians & Tibetans]

Poll Shows Most Palestinians Favor Violence Over Talks by Ethan Bronner, New York Times, March 19, 2008

A Land without a People for a People without a Land: Exclusive Interview with Diana Muir, Solomonia.com, February 24, 2008 [Original article: Middle Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2008]

The Palestinian Economy in Shambles by Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post, December 27, 2007

What about the record? by Diana West, Washington Times, December 21, 2007

Peace impossible without will by Greg Sheridan, The Australian, December 20, 2007

Analysis: PA aid no guarantee for boosting moderates by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, December 18, 2007

Foreign Aid and Palestinian Violence: An Uncomfortable Correlation by Steven Stotsky, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), December 17, 2007 (questions about Palestinian aid)

Rules of the game, Palestinian-style by Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post, October 31, 2007

Occupied Palestinian Territories: Palestinian factional strife fuelling abuses, Amnesty International, October 24, 2007

Gaza’s deadly guardians by Marie Colvin, The Sunday Times, September 30, 2007

Hamas Creates Terror ‘State’ in Gaza, AIPAC, September 2007 (map: Terrorist buildup in Gaza Strip)

Hamas is not the IRA by Zion Evrony, International Herald Tribune, August 31, 2007

Fears in Arab World Following Gaza Coup: Hamas Is Threatening Entire Arab World, MEMRI (The Middle East Media Research Institute) Special Dispatch Series - No. 1629, June 21, 2007

Brothers to the Bitter End, by Fouad Ajami, New York Times, June 19, 2007

To my Arab brothers: The War with Israel is Over — and they won by Youssef M. Ibrahim, Jewish World Review, July 12, 2006

The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine by Daniel Pipes, Middle East Review, Summer 1989

The idea of an Arab state resting between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is, rather, a twentieth-century concept. Indeed, its origins can be traced with surprising precision to a single year — 1920.