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King of Jordan Pessimistic on Israel-Palestine Peace
“I am not someone who looks at the world as a glass half-empty,” King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein of Jordan said in his address to Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum, “but I’m beginning to.”...
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The Internal Debate Over Israel’s Identity
Protests between secular and ultra-Orthodox Israelis centered in the town of Beit Shemesh, Israel have shed light on a trend line. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, and reported by...
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Bomb Iran? The SIPA perspective
| By Selma Stern | After a recent IAEA report came to alarming conclusions about the progress of the Iranian nuclear program, the Israeli government’s desire to act militarily has gained momentum....
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Qatar Lays New Foundations for Future
By Anthony Pusatory Last week, with the Emir of Qatar by his side, Prime Minister of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh addressed a crowd in Gaza: “Today we declare the victory on this siege through this blessed,...
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Long-term Peace in Gaza Depends on Egypt
By Anthony Pusatory The newly elected President of Egypt, Muhammad Morsi,confronted his greatest challenge to date in brokering a cease-fire between Hamas and Gaza last week – and by almost all...
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This Must Stop!
By Avi Cohen “The first job of any nation state is to protect its citizens. And so I can assure you that if…somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m...
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Khalidi: Peace Prospects Grim Despite Israeli Election
By Max Marder As results poured in Tuesday night in Israel’s general election, headline writers the world over rushed to announce the prodigious drop in support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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Israel’s Lawyer Can’t Stop Losing
By Jay Pinho “It is not fair,” President Barack Obama declared tonight, “that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls...
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American Lobby in Israel Struggles to Show Progress
By Jay Pinho On a balmy, breezy Thursday in Jerusalem, David Levy leaned back in his desk chair and sighed. “We’re just not getting anywhere,” he finally said. Levy is the president and co-founder...
View ArticleSIPA Facebook Group Disappoints During Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Rebecca Krisel SIPA’s Middle East Dialogue Group (MEDG)—a student-run organization “that serves as a forum for interaction, open debates, and discussions among members of the SIPA community”—failed...
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