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Aug 19, 2026, 10:39 AM

Palestinian Rejectionism Is the Harder Problem

Image is free for publication on a commercial platform. If it is, please provide a credit in the caption of the image.. Free download available for non-commercial and commercial use from the website Pexels of a protestor carrying a Palestinian flag amidst smoke and flames in Gaza, the URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/protestor-in-gaza-holding-palestinian-flag-in-smoke-36038663/

If poverty, unemployment and restricted movement were the principal causes of Palestinian violence, why have repeated periods of greater economic opportunity, international aid, political autonomy and diplomatic engagement failed to produce lasting peace? The uncomfortable answer is that material...

Aug 19, 2026, 7:51 AM

Trump’s Gaza Plan — The Only Game in Town

Hillary Clinton is probably not the person most people expected to make one of the strongest arguments for Donald Trump’s Gaza policy. Speaking with The New Yorker’s David Remnick at New York’s 92NY in June, the former secretary of state...

Steven Greenberg

Aug 18, 2026, 10:23 AM

An Open Letter to a Pastor Who Cropped the Truth

An Open Letter to Rev. Sara Ofner-Seals, Associate Pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana Dear Rev. Ofner-Seals, In your July 29 op-ed, you painted a bleak portrait of pre-war Gaza. You supported your argument with verifiable facts and correctly...

Aug 17, 2026, 12:47 PM

The Gaza Roadmap and Netanyahu’s Dilemma

Two Kinds of Pressure, One objective The same week produced two very different responses to Netanyahu’s rejection of the Board of Peace’s Gaza roadmap. One was loud, public and diplomatic. The other was quiet, personal and conducted largely out of...

Aug 15, 2026, 2:13 PM

Can Jared Kushner get Hamas disarmament moving?

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's adviser and son-in-law, speaks with CBS's Lesley Stahl (not pictured) on 60 Minutes, in an interview aired on October 19, 2025. (Screenshot/CBS 60 Minutes)

In a trip to the Mideast this week, the US envoy must put forward practical steps to keep the Gaza ceasefire from unraveling

Aug 14, 2026, 8:18 AM

Why Gaza Is Waiting on the Strait of Hormuz

This is the third in a series on the Board of Peace Road Map for Hamas Disarmament Every week now brings at new dispatch on the Gaza disarmament standoff — a Board of Peace clarification that isn't quite a clarification,...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 12, 2026, 11:04 AM

(Hosny Salah from Pexels.com)

The Tongue A child’s hand reaches through the rubble. We know nothing about the child. No nationality. No religion. No politics. Can I play with my toys? No. Can I go to school? No. Can I have ice cream? No. Can I watch the birds cross the sky? No. Can...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

The West Bank Map That Was Never Supposed to Last

More than 30 years after Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians are still living inside a map that was supposed to disappear. Open almost any political map of the West Bank and three letters dominate the landscape: A, B and C. They...

Aug 11, 2026, 10:49 AM

Normalization from the Saudi Perspective: Part III

Learning the Grammar of Regional Legitimacy One Cup of Tea at a Time Memory in the Middle East is not archived in digital databases or bureaucratic files; it is encoded slowly, deliberately, one cup of tea at a time. Long...

Aug 11, 2026, 7:49 AM

We Tried Oslo. Now Let’s Try Reality

Thirty years after an interim agreement failed to deliver a final peace, it is time to consider a different architecture…a one sovereign Jewish state. In 1993, Israelis were asked to take an extraordinary risk for peace. The Oslo process was built...

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