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2010-11-06
ANALYSIS: Is Hamas Islamicizing Gaza?
Beginning this year, Hamas has gradually begun Islamicizing the Gaza Strip in law and through the educational system, argues Mkhaimer Abusaba in bitterlemons-international.org.
2010-11-04
OP-ED: Finish Rabin's work
Former US President Bill Clinton fondly remembers Yitzhak Rabin and calls on peacemakers today to step up to the plate and :finish Rabin's work.
2010-10-31
OPINION: Crunch time
In this New York Times column, Roger Cohen, describes a moment of truth for Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu to tell the world what his vision of Israel's...
2010-10-30
OPINION: A new kind of partition plan
The passing of the benchmark of US mid-term elections next week could expedite a paradigm shift underway between Palestinians and Israelis, writes Aluf...
2010-10-27
OPINION: Trading beyond the Green Line
In light of the acclaimed theory that economic peace leads to real peace between a future Palestinian state and Israel, the author pokes at an economic...
2010-10-14
ANALYSIS: The man behind Avigdor Lieberman
Haaretz's Aluf Benn argues that Israel's antagonistic policies against its Arab minority are instigated not by its right-wing foreign minister, but by...
2010-10-09
OPINION: Israel should respect rights of foreign workers
In this Global Post op-ed, the authors describe why Israel's supreme court has called the state's treatment of foreign workers a form of slavery.
2010-10-03
OPINION: A new kind of two-state solution
In this well-researched article in Foreign Policy magazine, the authors argue for an innovative system based on the principle of Permanent Residency for...
2010-09-25
COMMENT: If Netanyahu can't halt the building, there is no hope
Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to extend a freeze on new settlements says a great deal about the Israeli prime minister's politics, writes Donald Macintyre...
2010-09-22
OPINION: Israel's unreasonable request
The current Palestinian leadership headed by President Mahmoud Abbas has been absolutely right in refusing to recognise Israel as a Jewish state because...
2010-09-11
Fisk: Few lessons learned after September 11
Journalist Robert Fisk writes about the lack of lessons learned from September 11 - two wars and hundreds of thousands of dead later.
2010-09-07
OPINION: Even if peace talks fail, Palestine's independence is inevitable
Even if current negotiations fail, the Palestinians will still achieve statehood, says Daoud Kuttab in his latest Op-Ed in the Washington Post.
2010-09-07
This time in Washington, honest brokerage is not going to be enough
Given the gross asymmetry between Israelis and Palestinians at the negotiating table, the United States will have to do much more than broker peace from...
2010-08-23
OPINION: Direct talks and their potential consequences
Alon Ben-Meir, a senior fellow at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, lays out a four-point plan for President Barack Obama as he gets set to engage Palestinians...
2010-08-22
OPINION: Three reasons why peace talks are going nowhere
Esteemed scholar and co-author of The Israel Lobby, Stephen Walt, argues why he sees no positive outcome of the move toward direct talks, in Foreign Policy...
2010-08-19
A third Lebanon war?
Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak is staying in close contact with Washington, visiting often and hosting US diplomats in Israel.
2010-08-18
BLOG: Doing an 'Ilana'
Author Ilana Hammerman took three Palestinian girls to an Israeli beach - breaking Israeli law that prevents Palestinians from entering Israel.
2010-08-18
OPINION: Jordan Valley is a microcosm if Israel's colonisation
In his latest piece in the Guardian, Ben White, describes the ongoing process of Israeli colonisation in the Jordan Valley and why it is good example of...
2010-08-01
OPINION: Abbas must test Obama's intentions
If Abbas does enter talks he should make it public that he is testing the resolve and genuineness of President Obama, argues Lara Friedman in her opinion...
2010-07-31
Fisk: Israel in EU without anyone noticing
The crash of an Israeli helicopter in Romania this week brought barely a mention from the international press, writes Robert Fisk