Middle East Political and Information Network
Published by the Hill. In the decades-long conflict between Israel and Palestine, there is an essential component that well-meaning Western negotiators have underestimated: religion factors more into the equation the…
Where are their voices for freedom of speech when their pro-Israel students and their speakers are screamed down in the name of racism, apartheid and colonialism? The growing acceptance of…
Palestinian Arabs cannot sign an agreement that ends all claims and recognizes the right of a Jewish state to exist and live unmolested on land that was ever Muslim. According…
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} Ten years ago, I was briefing a senator and her chief of staff about the complex nature of international law regarding the building of…
{Previously published in the JNS} If Israel had better control of its foreign-policy public relations, lemonade could have been made out of lemons. Instead, the harsh critics of American mainstream…
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} How does one reconcile this moral dilemma if you believe Israel has a right to exist as the home of the Jewish people but…
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} Has the Kushner/Greenblatt peace initiative learned from the mistakes of previous negotiation efforts? The long-awaited Trump peace plan to end the Israeli Palestinian conflict…
{Previously published on Forward.com} In a recent solicitation email, J Street President Jeremy Ben Ami proclaimed that the “Palestinians are the only party willing to publicly endorse the goal of…
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} A future Palestinian state will have Islam as the dominant aspect of its governing system, despite Western wishful thinking to the contrary. Every few…
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) Israeli Amos Tversky and his colleague Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman are famous for their research regarding systematic human cognitive bias. Cognitive bias often leads…