Middle East peace won’t happen without addressing religious issues
Published by the Hill. In the decades-long conflict between Israel and Palestine, there is an essential component that well-meaning Western…
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Sorry professors, but BDS and double standards for Israel are anti-Semitism
Where are their voices for freedom of speech when their pro-Israel students and their speakers are screamed down in the…
Why Palestinians can’t sign an end-of-conflict pact
Palestinian Arabs cannot sign an agreement that ends all claims and recognizes the right of a Jewish state to exist…
Two States for Two Peoples Requires Recognizing Israel’s Legal Rights
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} Ten years ago, I was briefing a senator and her chief of staff about…
Israel’s Self-Inflicted Black Eye
{Previously published in the JNS} If Israel had better control of its foreign-policy public relations, lemonade could have been made…
What Freshman Members of Congress Should Learn on Their Trip to Israel
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} How does one reconcile this moral dilemma if you believe Israel has a right…
Can Trump’s Peace Plan Avoid the Pitfalls of Previously Failed Negotiations?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} Has the Kushner/Greenblatt peace initiative learned from the mistakes of previous negotiation efforts? The…
The Jew-Free State Solution
{Previously published on Forward.com} In a recent solicitation email, J Street President Jeremy Ben Ami proclaimed that the “Palestinians are the…
The West’s Refusal to Recognize the Religious Basis for the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} A future Palestinian state will have Islam as the dominant aspect of its governing…
Cognitive Bias and UNSC Resolution 2334
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) Israeli Amos Tversky and his colleague Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman are famous for their…