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A 63-year search for Mideast peace

Imagine a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict: a Jewish state living alongside a Palestinian state in permanent peace, with open borders, and even economic union. Sound like fantasy? It wasn’t when the U.N. General Assembly voted in favor of Resolution 181, dividing what was then known as Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states.

A wrongful protest

As Israel’s ambassador to the US & historian Michael Oren spoke to a group of about 300 people, about 20 silent protesters stood outside with tape on their mouths to express their feelings on what they call the “Israeli occupation.”

The Israeli story

As peace talks in the Middle East continue for yet another week with little progress, a central question looms large in the minds of many: Why should we care about Israel? It seems like a fair question. Why should we bother learning about Israeli history?

Engaging with Israel on campus starts with relationships

As the pro-Israel community addresses blockade-running Gaza flotillas, the vast majority of U.S. campuses already are on summer break. Certain campuses have seen anti-Israel protests and resolutions, but most campuses still in session experienced relatively muted events as they turned attention to exams and summer plans.

Obama’s treatment of Israel unfair, dangerous

This week, we witnessed President Obama’s shameful treatment of the leader of one of America’s closest allies. This became clear when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was hauled before a “seething” Obama and read the Riot Act behind closed doors.

Classroom battlegrounds: a new war on campus?

Before the school year started I wrote that the expectation was that this would be a good year for Israel on campus. During the summer there were no indications of any problems and, in fact, the fall had little anti-Israel activity and a good deal of positive programming from pro-Israel students.

Reasonable self-defense

One of the most important questions of modernity is the same one asked for centuries: Where is peace in the Middle East? In August 2005, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s enduring hope for the answer led to his unilateral declaration of disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

Our Israel

“Zo ha-medina shelanu,” they said in Hebrew. “It’s our state.” We were standing on a cliff at Rosh ha-Nikra, a scenic Mediterranean overlook on the Israeli side of the Israeli-Lebanese border. I had struck up a conversation with three Muslim Arab Israelis, and we were talking about what had brought us to this particular spot.

SFS-Q must remain aware of Qatari ties

I was on my way back to Jerusalem from the northern Israeli port of Haifa when my phone started buzzing. There had been an explosion in Tel Aviv. Was I okay?

Palestinian conference is illegitimate and divisive

If Students for Justice in Palestine want to hold an anti-Semitic, terrorist-encouraging conference on main campus, don’t try and sell it to me as something that is going to help the Palestinian people.