Netanyahu’s speech had important points, but didn't address the elephant in the room - analysis
Relying on one friend is not a foreign policy. Donald Trump’s support matters, but it is not a breakwater against the rising tide of boycotts, recognitions, and investigations.
Editor's Notes: Not the key of 1948 - the counterargument to Mahmoud Abbas's US narrative - comment
Until the order is hostages, security, reform, then politics, recognition – only then can we actually begin a real conversation.
The premature Palestinian statehood will explode in our faces - opinion
The first bricks are still the same. One authority. One set of laws. One chain of command. If recognition is to be more than a headline, it must become pressure and support in the same paragraph.
No. 1: Benjamin Netanyahu: Flipping the Middle East on its head for better or worse
If influence, not approval, is our standard, Benjamin Netanyahu was the center of 5785. When he moved, the system moved: generals, ministers, markets, mediators, enemies.
No. 2: Steve Witkoff: Donald Trump's envoy of peace
His official title is United States special envoy to the Middle East and special envoy for Peace Missions, but de facto, he is Trump’s representative for international issues, wherever it may be.
No. 41: Yisrael Ganz: Yesha Council chairman, Binyamin Regional Council head
As head of Israel’s largest regional municipality and the movement’s umbrella body, Yisrael Ganz operates at both the municipal and national levels.
It’s time to break the old conception of the US Jewish ‘minority mindset’
US Jews need to make it visible that you cannot build it on a doctrine that rejects human pluralism. The answer is not to jeer them or to deny their solidarity with Palestinian civilians.
My Emirati friend says the region wants peace, not Netanyahu - comment
On the Abraham Accords' five-year anniversary, Netanyahu and his government are among the main obstacles to peace, according to my Emirati friend
Editor's Notes: Behind closed doors, moving the Middle East - comment
This week, the 300-plus people in the MEAD summit were reminded to be modest, to be patient, and to trade certainty for the messy work of listening.
Sinwar cast October 7 as part of a divine plan, senior official says in DC conf.
Sinwar tied Oct. 7 to a prophetic “desert generation” vision, aiming for 2028, but his faith-driven plan miscalculated Israel, Hezbollah, and US reactions, MEAD heard.
