Center for Middle East Policy

Newly displaced Syrian children arrive to a refugee camp in Atimah village, Idlib province, Syria September 11, 2018. REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi - RC1969082B70

The United States can stop a looming catastrophe for 3 million Syrians

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Steven Heydemann

Thursday, September 20, 2018

A general view of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives shows the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RC1EDA67DF60

Four lessons for the post-Oslo era

Thursday, September 13, 2018

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R) gestures to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (3rd R), as U.S. President Bill Clinton (2nd R) stands between them, following their handshake after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. Also in picture is Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (L). REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99E00JX01

The day Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed within reach

Martin S. Indyk

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (sitting 2nd R) signs the Israeli-PLO peace accord as then PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R), then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (L) and then U.S. President Bill Clinton (back C) stand behind him during a ceremony, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99D1UC401

The Oslo Accords at 25: A personal reflection

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Thursday, September 13, 2018

A Palestinian boy holding a Palestinian flag takes shelter from Israeli gunfire during clashes with Israeli soldiers at Gush Kitaf Jewish settlement near Khan-Younes south of the Gaza Strip November 7, 2000.JFL/FMS - RP2DRHYJWXAA

The Oslo Accords at 25, the second intifada at 18

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Smoke rises from an emergency service point after an airstrike at the rebel-held village of Maar Zita in Idlib province, Syria April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah - RC11F2F53AF0

How to prevent a massacre and the creation of ISIS 2.0 in Syria’s Idlib province

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Steven Heydemann

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (L), as U.S. President Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99D1UCD01

The Oslo Accords at 25: The view from Jordan

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (L) waves with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) and U.S. President Bill Clinton after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99E00KE01

The Oslo Accords at 25: The Syria track that could have been

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Hezbollah fighters put Lebanese and Hezbollah flags at Juroud Arsal, Syria-Lebanon border, July 25, 2017. Picture taken July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC11019C4D00

Another war in Lebanon?

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, September 7, 2018

A Palestinian woman sits in a motorised vehicle loaded with aid, outside a distribution center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - RC1A87FA4580

In one move, Trump eliminated US funding for UNRWA and the US role as Mideast peacemaker

Friday, September 7, 2018