A Dangerous Proposal For Israel-Palestine “Peace”
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick The tentative outreach from Washington toward Tehran has spurred speculation about a wide variety of connected issues. The desperation with which Israeli Prime Minister...
View ArticleKerry Lands In The Israel-Palestine Blame Game
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Israel on Jan. 2, starting 2014 with an attempt to save what is increasingly looking like a doomed round of negotiations...
View ArticleIsraelis and Palestinians Moving Apart, Not Closer
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick It’s a busy week for Secretary of State John Kerry. On Monday, he received Israel’s top two negotiators, Tzipi Livni and Isaac Molho. Then he packed his bags and headed...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Rule On Explosive Jerusalem Passport Issue
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick Return trips to the Supreme Court are not unheard of, but they’re not particularly common either. Should we be surprised that a case involving Israel would get a second...
View ArticleThe US Must Do Less To Resolve the Israel-Palestine Conflict
via Lobelog by Mitchell Plitnick Former American diplomat Aaron David Miller is a frequent and worthwhile contributor to US foreign policy discussions in both Washington and the news media. His long...
View ArticleNetanyahu and Obama: Name-Calling and its Discontents
via Lobelog by Mitchell Plitnick The obsession in politics and diplomacy with decorum–largely a relic from the past–can easily distract people from the realities of the present. Case in point, the...
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Jerusalem of Tarnished Gold
via Lobelog by Mitchell Plitnick Take a particularly provocative and grandstanding Israeli government and shift its focus from Hamas and Gaza to Jerusalem and you have a most explosive recipe. That...
View ArticleWhy Is Netanyahu Targeting Abbas for the Har Nof Massacre?
via Lobelog by Mitchell Plitnick This past Tuesday saw the latest in a horrifyingly long line of atrocities in Jerusalem. Two armed Palestinians entered a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood, killed...
View ArticleNew Israeli Elections Offer Little Hope For Change
by Mitchell Plitnick The Israeli government is headed for yet another round of elections. Although the official election date for the next Knesset is November 7, 2017, no one ever expected this...
View ArticlePoll: Increasing Support In US For One-State Solution
by Mitchell Plitnick On Friday, yet another poll on the Middle East was released. They seem to come in a very steady stream, and once you identify the questions, the results are almost entirely...
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