Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
It’s about managing oil prices, bread prices, and strategic partnerships.
Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Brett McGurk, the President’s point person on the Middle East to discuss these and other issues.
Naftali Bennett’s historic state visit was a sign of progress—with caveats.
In an interview on the anniversary of the 1991 Arab-Israeli peace conference, Marwan Muasher looks back.
A survey of experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the viability of the two-state solution.
No country can achieve sustainable political and economic development without ensuring legal equality for all.
Donald Trump was far less interested in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a struggle that has outlasted every postwar president — and far more in a 22-state outcome, normalizing Israel’s relations with the Arab world, especially Persian Gulf countries.
Even by Middle Eastern standards the past month in the region has been head-spinning and volatile. Conflict between Israelis and Palestinian along three fronts — Jerusalem; Gaza and within Israel proper fractured an already tenuous status quo.
There is this cycle that we keep seeing over and over again. But really we also saw some developments inside of Israel with Palestinian citizens of Israel and mob attacks against by Israeli Jewish citizens and of course in the occupied territories
The new and oft-repeated formulation of “equal measures of security, freedom, opportunity, and dignity” for Israelis and Palestinians is meant to signal some change in policy, but not a great deal of change.