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Sep 13, 2019, 2:50 AM

Opposing Annexation Is Not Enough

Almost since the start of the Trump Administration there has been speculation that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might annex all or part of the West Bank. Proving the speculation well-founded, Netanyahu announced earlier this week -- in what...

Dec 7, 2017, 2:19 AM

Reflections on the Death of the Peace Process

One memorable night in August 1993, I went to sleep in a city inhabited by two peoples who saw each other exclusively in terms of enmity and suspicion, and awoke the next morning to a world in which those...

Nov 18, 2016, 10:33 PM

Illiberal Support for Israel: Antithetical to Jewish Values & Israel’s Interests

In the beginning, “pro-Israel” meant something clear and uncomplicated: supporting Israel’s miraculous establishment as the homeland of the Jewish people, on the heels of the horrors of the Holocaust, and defending Israel’s very right to exist and thrive, in...

Nov 1, 2016, 9:56 PM

Is the JFNA legitimizing settlements?

Federation’s visits to the West Bank beg explanation — and the parity of exposure to the fight against occupation

Sep 12, 2016, 5:03 PM

Bibi, Settlements & the “Ethnic Cleansing” Canard

It seems there is no line Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t cross to defend settlements. Israeli law says settlers can’t steal Israeli-recognized Palestinian private land for their own purposes? Netanyahu leaves no principle of rule of law unchallenged...

Aug 26, 2016, 6:39 PM

Netanyahu’s Mixed Messages on Temple Mount Incitement

In 2009, Israel arrested the head of the northern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement for incitement, for saying that Israel “seeks to build a synagogue on Al-Aqsa Mosque.” Since then – and especially over the past two years, as...

Jan 12, 2016, 1:17 AM

Israeli NGO bill nothing like US law

Justice Minister Shaked is mischaracterizing her proposed law, a law that clearly discriminates against the left

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About Me

Lara Friedman is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. She was previously the Director of Policy and Government Relations at Americans for Peace Now, and before that a U.S. Foreign Service Officer serving in Jerusalem, Washington, Tunis, and Beirut. Lara is a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, with particular focus on the Israeli-Arab conflict, settlements and Jerusalem, and on the role of the U.S. Congress.