The Palestinian Territories

Kissinger in the Middle East

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U.S. President George W. Bush answers questions from the press aboutIraq with Vice President Richard Cheney (L) looking on, during ameeting with Congressional leaders at the White House, September 18,2002. The president said Saddam Hussein "won't fool anybody" with hispromise to admit weapons inspectors into his country. REUTERS/LarryDowningLSD/HB

9/11 and Iraq: The making of a tragedy

Friday, September 17, 2021

United States President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Middle East ceasefire agreed to by Israel and Hamas in the Cross Hall at the White House in Washington.Featuring: President Joe BidenWhere: Washington, District Of Columbia, United StatesWhen: 20 May 2021Credit: POOL via CNP/INSTARimages/Cover Images

Most Americans, including half of young Democrats, disapprove of Biden’s handling of recent Gaza crisis

Shibley Telhami

Thursday, July 29, 2021

UAE Ambassador to Israel, Mohamed Al Khaja, speaks during the opening ceremony of the Emirati embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

The emergence of GCC-Israel relations in a changing Middle East

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks as he delivers a joint statement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Jerusalem March 9, 2016. REUTERS/Debbie Hill/Pool

America must rethink its unique and contradictory advocacy of Israel’s Jewishness

Shibley Telhami

Friday, June 11, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS

For Washington and the Palestinians, old policy is no substitute for sound policy

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Former Governor Mike Huckabee (Republican of Arkansas), a candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination for President of the United States, shares his thoughts on Israel and the Middle East at the 2015 Christians United For Israel Summit Candidates Forum at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, USA, on Monday, July 13, 2015. Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

As Israel increasingly relies on US evangelicals for support, younger ones are walking away: What polls show

Shibley Telhami

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Palestinians inspect damaged buildings that were hit by Israeli airstrikes during the recent military conflict between Israel and the Palestinian enclave controlled by Hamas. Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on the ceasefire after days of fighting in which around 230 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and 12 people in Israel were killed by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.

Congratulations on the ceasefire. Now the hard work begins.

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Friday, May 21, 2021

The al-Jalaa building housing Associated Press (AP) and Al Jazeera media offices is hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, May 15, 2021. REUTERS/Ashraf Abu Amrah NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Biden’s bungled response on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Shibley Telhami

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli air strike on a building, amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, in Gaza City May 18, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Jerusalem unrest exposes the brittleness of Israeli sovereignty over Palestinians

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Smoke and flames rise after an Israeli air-strike hits at Al-Jalaa tower, which houses apartments and several media outlets, including The Associated Press and Al Jazeera, amid the escalating flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

Don’t take the narrow view of what’s happening in Gaza

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

A demonstrator gestures during a protest to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, near the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan May 16, 2021. REUTERS/Muath Freij

A separate peace? What the Gaza crisis means for Arab regimes

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Palestinians react during clashes with Israeli police at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

The perfect storm for Israelis and Palestinians

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Molotov cocktails are thrown by Arabs at Jewish right-wing protesters during clashes amid a night-time curfew in the mixed Israeli-Arab city of Lod.

This is what the death of the two-state solution looks like

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Friday, May 14, 2021

Flames and smoke rise during Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israel-Palestinian violence, in the southern Gaza Strip May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT

What hope is there for de-escalation between Israel and Hamas?

Shibley Telhami and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Flames and smoke rise during Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israel-Palestinian violence, in the southern Gaza Strip May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT

Hamas tries to seize the day

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

A sign of the Palestinian Central Elections Commission is seen outside its office in Gaza City February 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Elections in Palestine: Prelude or ploy?

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The Middle East and the new US administration

9:00 AM - Friday Feb 26, 2021 1:00 PM EST

Female protesters holds placards and shout anti-government slogans as they took part in demonstration held in the capital Tunis, to call for the fall of the regime and to protest against the 'police violence' used during the latest nightly protests that broke in the country. They called for the release of the young protesters arrested by the police.Protesters chanted slogans, some of them had marked the uprising against the authoritarian regime of the former Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali during the Tunisian revolution. The demonstration took place under the slogan: "National march against the return of the police state and Ennahdha's militias". Tunisia, January 23, 2021.Des manifestantes tiennent des pancartes et chantent des slogans antigouvernement alors qu'elles participent a une manifestation qui s'est tenue dans la capitale Tunis, pour appeler a la chute du regime et pour protester contre la 'violence policiere' employee lors des dernieres protestations nocturnes qui ont eclate dans le pays. Ils ont demande la liberation des jeunes manifestants arretes par la police. Les manifestants ont scande des slogans dont certains avaient marque le soulevement populaire contre le regime autoritaire du dictateur et ancien president de la Tunisie, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali pendant la revolution tunisienne. La manifestation s'est deroulee sous le slogan : "Marche nationale contre le retour de l'Etat policier et des milices d'Ennahdha". Tunisie, le 23 janvier 2021.NO USE FRANCE

Biden says he will listen to experts. Here is what scholars of the Middle East think.

Marc Lynch and Shibley Telhami

Friday, February 19, 2021

April 6, 2019 - Hebron, Palestine: A Palestinian man walks in front of the Cave of the Patriarchs in the part of the old city controlled by Jewish settlers under the protection of the Israeli militaryScene de la vie quotidienne dans la vieille ville d'Hebron, dont une partie est controlee par des colons juifs sous la protection de l'armee israelienne.NO USE FRANCE

The ‘state-plus’ framework: A confederal solution for Israel-Palestine

Wednesday, December 23, 2020