Political Process
The Granddaddy of Dumb Ideas: Why admitting a Palestinian state to the United Nations would be a terrible move by Aaron David Mille, Slate, January 5, 2012
Israel’s Cold War blues by Evelyn Gordon, Jerusalem Post, November 29, 2011
Israelis won’t say it, but a Cold-War paradigm is the way to fix the Palestinian conflict.
Rabin’s Legacy and the Trouble with “Peace” by Tal Becker, Shalom Hartman Institute, November 9, 2011
We live in a region with powerful militant actors, dysfunctional governments, and deep, systemic problems. To speak of a “peace agreement” as a kind of cure-all is to create expectations that cannot be met. [….] Even at best, an agreement does not create peace; it creates the space for peace to grow.
The Mideast deal that could have been by David Ignatius, Washington Post, October 26, 2011
Europe Still Hasn’t Learned Lessons From Failed Peace Process by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, October 6, 2011
The End of Land for Peace? by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, September 6, 2011
A Strategy for Israel in the Changed Middle East by Efraim Halevy, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 11., No. 11, August 2, 2011
It’s time to park the peace process by Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, July 11, 2011
“Land Swaps” and the 1967 Lines by Dore Gold, The Weekly Standard, June 20, 2011
The Virtues of Folding by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, May 30, 2011
[President Obama] — perhaps with the best intentions and the worst analysis — has made a complex situation more complicated. But the preponderance of blame surely rests with the locals’ incapacity and unwillingness to get real and serious about what it would take to reach an agreement.
The End of the “Peace Process” by Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations, May 6, 2011
Abbas vs. Obama by Steven J. Rosen, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2011 [also available as pdf file]
Israel’s Requirements for Defensible Borders In a Rapidly Changing Middle East by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 5, 2011
The Palestinian UN Gamble – Irresponsible and Ill-Advised by Alan Baker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 10, No. 34, April 3, 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
The Peace Plan Israel Needs by Elliot Jager, Jewish Ideas Daily, March 15, 2011
[I]nstead of allowing Europe and the Obama administration to railroad it into concessions that will deliver neither peace nor security nor even short-term diplomatic breathing space, Israel’s better course may well be to engage in a forthright internal dialogue aimed at strengthening an already existing consensus in support of a plan yielding a state for the Palestinian Arabs and real security for Israel. Toward that end, the government might present to the electorate a revised, fully detailed version of Ya’alon’s blueprint and seek a clear mandate for its implementation—if need be, by means of new elections.
A Plan for Peace That Still Could Be by Bernard Avishai, New York Times, February 7, 2011
Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue by David Makovsky, with Sheli Chabon and Jennifer Logan, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 2011 [see also interactive map depicting various land-swap options]
The impossible is indeed achievable. Middle East negotiators can adjust Israel’s borders to include the large majority of West Bank settlers and still meet Palestinian Authority territorial demands. This proposition — stemming from principles the two parties have repeatedly expressed as well as current realities on the ground — may guide leaders and diplomats in the coming months as they seek to advance the peace process.
Why Isn’t Obama Pressuring the Palestinians? by Steven J. Rosen, Foreign Policy, January 4, 2011
End the “Peace Process” and Move On, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), JINSA Report #1,045, December 10, 2010
Bleak House by Benny Morris, Tablet, December 2, 2010: “The prospects for a Palestinian state have rarely been more grim.”
The Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations – A Current Overview by C. Jacob and L. Barkan, The Middle East Media Research Institute, Inquiry & Analysis Series Report No.637, September 22, 2010
Obama Causing America’s Stature in the Middle East to Deteriorate: Heavy-handed U.S. intervention has stalled the Arab-Israeli peace process by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, US News & World Report, October 15, 2010
Why the Washington process collapsed, BitterLemons.org, October 18, 2010
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Doomed to failure? by Ghassan Khatib
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Plenty of blame to spread around by Yossi Alpher
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Like a soldier without weapons: An interview with Ahmed Yousef
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Why it can’t succeed by Mordechai Kedar
Five myths about Middle East peace by Aaron David Miller, Washington Post, October 3, 2010 [rebuttal to Miller's #3 by Yisrael Medad, My Right Word, here]
Three Temptations on the Road to Mideast Peace by Robert Satloff, Foreign Policy, September 13, 2011
Your move, Mr. Abbas by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, September 10, 2010
Arabs vs. the Abdullah Plan by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2010
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the issue of the 1967 border by Ambassador Dore Gold, Washington Examiner, August 14, 2010
The Despair of Zion by Walter Reich, Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2010
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Mr. President, Don’t Pray for Anything You Really Don’t Want by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, July 28, 2010 (on the futility of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations)
Constructive Clarity in Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations by Benny Begin, Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 7, 2010
Israel and the Palestinians: A New Strategy by Moshe Yaalon, Azure no. 34, Autumn 2008
Timeline of Israel’s Peace Efforts during the Obama Administration, The Israel Project, May 27, 2010
The False Religion of Mideast Peace, and why I’m no longer a believer by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, May/June 2010
The Palestine Peace Distraction by Richard N. Haass, Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2010
Prospects for Peace with the Palestinians by Max Singer [also available as PDF version], Perspectives Papers on Current Affairs, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Affairs, Perspectives 105, April 12, 2010
The Future of an Illusion: A piece of paper will not bring peace to the Middle East by Elliott Abrahams, The Weekly Standard, Vol. 15, No. 28, April 5, 2010 
The Palestinians: Why Negotiate? The US Will Extract Concessions For You by Mark Silverberg, Hudson New York, April 1, 2010
Armistice Now: An Interim Agreement for Israel and Palestine by Ehud Yaari, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2010
“I Will Not Back Down”: Interview with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Der Speigel, February 7, 2010
The Process Will Resume, But Why? by Yossi Alpher, BitterLemons.org, January 18, 2010
Sobering up on Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy, January 7, 2010
The Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, January 2010
Why Abbas Does Not Want To Resume Peace Talks by Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson New York, December 29, 2009
The Mideast Peace Deal You Haven’t Heard About by Steven J. Rosen, Foreign Policy, December 18, 2009
Palestinians alone again: Abbas’ hopes dashed as world gives Palestinians cold shoulder by Guy Bechor, Ynetnews.com, December 10, 2009
Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over? by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, New York Review of Books, Vol. 56, No. 19, December 3, 2009
Building Peace Without Obama’s Interference by Tom Gross, Wall Street Journal, December 2, 2009
Stuck in Neutral? Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process by Robert Satloff, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch #1601: Special Forum Report, November 13, 2009
Hussein Ibish on the Fantasy World of One-Staters by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, November 3, 2009
The Goldstone Mission vs. The Peace Process by Danny Ayalon, Jerusalem Post, October 19, 2009
The doomed Mideast ‘peace process’ by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, October 14, 2009
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Two-Year Path to Palestinian Statehood: Implications for the Palestinian Authority and Israel by Dan Diker and Pinhas Inbari, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 9, No. 11, October 2, 2009
On Obama’s Block by Avi Shavit, Haaretz, September 25, 2009
The stumbling block of the Arab initiative by Shlomo Avineri, Haaretz, September 22, 2009
Peace Process or War Process? by Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2009
Interesting Times: The power of truth by Saul Singer, Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2009
Are the Fundamental Assumptions of Oslo Still Valid? by Zaki Shalom, The Institute for National Security Studies, INSS Insight No. 122, August 7, 2009
How Israel Hopes to Achieve Peace with the Palestinians by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office, July 21, 2009
Why No Progress in the Peace Process for the Past Eight Years? by Rick Richman, Commentary, July 14, 2009
A blow to the chances for peace by Yossi Alpher, BitterLemons.com, June 29, 2009 Netanyahu’s Peace Plan by Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, May 21, 2009
Hamas offers Israel the peace of the grave by Charles Krauthammer, Seattle Times, May 8, 2009
Do the Palestinians Really Want a State? by Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic, April 21, 2009 [Reviews and applies Jakub Grygiel's “The Power of Statelessness: the Withering Appeal of Governing” (Policy Review April/May 2009).]
Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat: Abu Mazen Rejected the Israeli Proposal in Annapolis Like Arafat Rejected the Camp David 2000 Proposal [video clip] Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Clip No. 2074, March 27, 2009
The Arab Peace Initiative: A Primer and Future Prospects by Joshua Teitelbaum, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 2009 [pdf]
The Future of the Two-State Solution by Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, JCPA Issue Brief Vol. 8, No. 22, February 17, 2009
The Farewell Tour, “Go, Iraq!” and Thanksgiving, Jewish Institute for National Affairs, JINSA Report #831, November 26, 2008
Palestinian Civil War Casts Shadow Over Peace Talks by Jonathan Schanzer, JTA, November 23, 2008
Yes to ‘salam’ (editorial) Jerusalem Post, November 20, 2008
Winding the “Peace Process” Down, or Up, JINSA Report #825, November 7, 2008
Can Israel approach peace from the bottom up? by Natan Sharansky, Jerusalem Post, October 16, 2008
Palestinian statehood not the answer by Morton Klein, JTA, October 13, 2008
Thanks To Olmert, Mideast ‘Solutions’ Come Full Circle by Gary Rosenblatt, The Jewish Week, October 8, 2008
Israel and the Palestinians: A New Strategy by Moshe Yaalon, Azure no. 34, Autumn 2008
Two States . . . Or None at All by MJ Rosenberg, IPF Friday, Issue #383, September 26, 2008
Better occupation than a partial peace by Aluf Benn, Haaretz, September 25, 2008
The One-State Solution by Sari Nusseibeh, Newsweek, September 20, 2008
Talking to Terrorists: The Myths, Misconceptions and MIsapplication of the Northern Ireland Peace Process by John Bew and Martyn Frampton, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 566, August-September 2008
What Cyprus, Bosnia and Kosovo can teach us by Shlomo Avineri, Haaretz, July 6, 2008
The Peace Test: Bush offered Palestinians a state; they said no deal. by Clifford D. May, National Review Online, July 3, 2008
The Unlikely Peace: Prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement in 2008, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch #1386: Special Forum Report, July 1
Time for Radical Pragmatism by Thomas Friedman, New York Times, June 4, 2008
Road map to nowhere by Daniel Levy, International Herald Tribune, May 14, 2008
Back to the Jordanian option by Giora Eiland, Ynetnews.com, April 16, 2008
Imagined Partners by Jonathan Spyer, Haaretz, March 30, 2008
Palestinian State: Relevancy Gaps in Israeli Policy, Re’ut Institute, March 20, 2008
In the Trenches: ‘Give me a break, please’ by David A. Harris, Jerusalem Post Blog, February 25, 2008
“I know of no nation on earth that yearns for peace more than Israel, no nation, victorious in unsought wars, that has been more generous in yielding to its vanquished foes’ terms in pursuit of peace.”
Annapolis – Road to Nowhere by Zalman Shoval, Jerusalem Viewpoints #561, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, February 1, 2008
The Region: Here we go round the mulberry bush by Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post, January 13, 2008
The Peace Planners Strike Again by Hillel Halkin, Commentary, January 2008
After Annapolis: What Chance for Agreement with Abbas and the PLO? by Prof. Efraim Karsh, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Briefs, Vol. 7, No. 26, January 1, 2008
Interesting Times: How to pressure for peace by Saul Singer Jerusalem Post, December 27, 2007
“[T]here is a huge asymmetry between the effects of each side’s actions. Palestinian compliance [with the 'Road Map'] leads to more Israeli compliance, while Israeli compliance leads to less Palestinian compliance.”
Foreign Minister Livni’s address to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting New York, September 24, 2007
“Israel is committed to the establishment of a viable and vibrant Palestine, in the West Bank and Gaza, as a homeland for the Palestinian people and a peaceful neighbor to Israel. This is a shared vision, not a zero-sum game.”
The Peace Alternative by Tzipi Livni (English translation), Asharq Alawsat, June 18, 2007
Address by H.E. Tzipi Livni, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, State of Israel To the United Nations 61st General Assembly, New York, September 20, 2006
