Category: Israeli – Palestinian Conflict

Photo: After a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem synagogue in 2014, CNN ran the story with the headline ‘4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians dead in Jerusalem,’ failing to note that the…

This week, Dr. Eric Mandel spoke to the Yale University Post-Doctoral Student Association about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism in America, the BDS movement, Hamas, Israel’s Northern Iranian Border, and America’s…

Dear MEPIN Friends,  For many years I have organized in-depth seminars in the Middle East. Some of my readers have asked to be notified when my next trip is taking…

Photo: Judea and Ruth Pearl, the parents of slain WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, light a Hanukkia at a Hanukkah reception at the White House in 2007. Ruth died on July…

Dear MEPIN Readers,  I will be speaking for one of New York City’s leading synagogues on the evening of Thursday, March 3rd, on many topics I have been writing about…

Photo Source: Times of Israel Published in the December 13, 2021 issue of The Jerusalem Report. This fall, six Palestinian terrorists escaped from an Israeli prison. While the attention was…

Published in the October 11, 2021 issue of the Jerusalem Report. Image source: Amir Cohen, Reuters During a recent presentation, I was asked how Israel could get rid of Hamas…

Published in The Jerusalem Post. Everyone knows Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood and is a religiously-motivated Islamist organization. But what about the Palestinian Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas? The United…

Published in The Hill. As President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken ponder how to entice the Palestinian Authority (PA) to negotiate with Israel, a far more significant problem is being ignored. The…

Well-meaning American negotiators over the years have done a disservice to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. To try to bridge the perhaps insurmountable gulf between the warring parties, diplomats have employed…