Gaza Disengagement

Apply for a Blog

May 2, 2025, 8:07 PM

Israel’s Eighth Front: The Weaponization of International Law

International courts claim to champion human rights and justice, but when it comes to Israel, they increasingly trade legal standards for political posturing. From questionable ICC arrest warrants to highly selective ICJ opinions, Israel faces a level of legal...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

May 2, 2025, 7:50 AM

Israel’s Election Campaign Just Started (Here’s How and Why)

You most probably read the headline right here in The Times of Israel three days ago but weren’t aware of its electoral import. So here it is again: Dermer predicts war will be over in a year, regional peace...

Mar 5, 2025, 2:16 AM

Bringing Our Hostages Home: A Path Forward

Hostages Square, Tel Aviv

The hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, brokered by the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt, sought a phased release of hostages. Phase one secured the return of 33 hostages in exchange for a ceasefire, more humanitarian aid, Israeli withdrawals from...

Feb 8, 2025, 1:29 AM

Gaza Chose Terror Instead of Prosperity

Image generated with Adobe Firefly, 2025.

The trajectory of the Middle East has always been shaped by a fundamental struggle between construction and destruction, stability and chaos. Nowhere is this contrast more evident than in the conflict between Israel and its neighbors, where political choices...

Feb 6, 2025, 7:58 PM

At last, some Gazan pragmatism—but no one wants to know

Let’s get one thing straight: Donald Trump’s seemingly impulsive suggestion, when meeting Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week, that the USA (i.e. his own property empire) should take over Gaza and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East...

Feb 5, 2025, 9:55 PM

20 Years Later: Lessons from Israel’s Disengagement

Twenty years ago, Israel left Gaza with hopes of security and peace. Instead, it got rockets, war, and the deadliest attack in its history. What went wrong? On February 16, 2005, in a 59-40 vote, the Israeli Knesset approved the...

Jan 23, 2025, 5:12 AM

Make the Palestinians an offer they can’t refuse

Five weeks after October 7, 2023 I wrote about a massive infrastructure project that might offer the Palestinians a new opportunity. The idea was to build a canal from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Dead Sea, and make...

Stephen I. Siller

Jan 16, 2025, 6:09 PM

Reports from January 7, 2025, said President-elect “Trump warned ‘all hell will break out’ if Gaza hostages aren’t released before his inauguration.” The 2025 “deal” negotiated by Biden, Egypt, Qatar and Israel, with Trump’s envoy, Mr. Witkoff, does not...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jan 10, 2025, 9:06 AM

Te’kumah? What Bibi Got Right (and Wrong)

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is a master of public relations. Indeed, one could teach an entire course on PR just using his numerous masterful “spins” over the years. In large part, that mastery explains his longest-running tenure as PM...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Nov 12, 2024, 3:28 AM

Did Avraham Give Up the Gaza Strip?

The story of the Akeda, The Binding of Yitzchak (Breisheet 22:1) begins with the following words: After these events, God tested Avraham... Rashbam, in a very long commentary, explains how the story of the Akeida came as a result of the...

Load more