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Sep 21, 2023, 2:56 PM

There is No Place Like Home

Like many of my readers, and unlike my wife and children, I am an Israeli by choice. I immigrated to Israel nearly 46 years ago. My wife and children were born in Israel. Nearly six years ago, one of...

Sep 14, 2023, 1:35 PM

The coming year – the worst is yet to come, unless

I imagine that the average Israeli sees very little of the content that I see every day in my Twitter (X) feed, from the Palestinian media, from Israeli, Palestinian, and international human rights organizations. Those who see that content...

Aug 31, 2023, 11:51 PM

The future of Hamas

Hamas operative Saleh al-Aruri, left (Youtube screenshot)a and Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana).

Elections will soon pit a local pragmatist against an Iran-allied extremist – either way, Hamas is integral in Palestinian politics

Aug 28, 2023, 10:03 PM

Keeping Secrets

I know it is really hard to keep aa big secret. Even more so when you are a politician and you have to publicize your own success so that the public remembers your name. There are people, for instance,...

Aug 21, 2023, 1:50 PM

The First Step – Palestinian Elections

For more than a decade, Israel and Palestine have been moving further away from the chance of peace, or even from the chance of renewing a peace process. On the ground, 14 million people living between the River and...

Aug 13, 2023, 12:55 PM

Could the Israeli-Palestinian Two-State Solution Be Revived?

The appointment of H.E. Ambassador Nayef Al Sudairi, the current Saudi ambassador to Jordan as the non-resident ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the State of Palestine is a flashing red light to those in Israel who believe that normalization...

Aug 24, 2014, 1:34 AM

How to end this war

A proposal that offers Hamas direct benefits for agreeing to allay Israel's key security concerns

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About Me

The writer is a political and social entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to peace between Israel and her neighbors. He is a founding member of “Kol Ezraheiha - Kol Muwanteneiha” (All of the Citizens) political party in Israel. He is now directing The Holy Land Bond and is the Middle East Director for ICO - International Communities Organization.

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