Israel’s Outrage Du Jour: Teaching Fifth Graders to ‘Confirm the Kill’ Mideast Peace Israel’s Outrage Du Jour: Teaching Fifth Graders to ‘Confirm the Kill’ Richard Silverstein May 10, 2017 Last week, on a day filled with outrages against sanity and decency in Israel, I penned the... Read More Read more about Israel’s Outrage Du Jour: Teaching Fifth Graders to ‘Confirm the Kill’
Marwan Barghouti Calls for Armed Resistance from Israeli Prison, Gets Solitary Confinement Mideast Peace Marwan Barghouti Calls for Armed Resistance from Israeli Prison, Gets Solitary Confinement Richard Silverstein November 12, 2014 Marwan Barghouti is not just the most famous Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli jails. He’s the most... Read More Read more about Marwan Barghouti Calls for Armed Resistance from Israeli Prison, Gets Solitary Confinement
Shalit-Barghouti Deal Imminent? Mideast Peace Shalit-Barghouti Deal Imminent? Richard Silverstein November 23, 2009 One never knows what to say about the on again, off again negotiations to free Gilad Shalit... Read More Read more about Shalit-Barghouti Deal Imminent?
Gorenberg’s Fantasy of Palestinian Non-Violence Mideast Peace Politics & Society Gorenberg’s Fantasy of Palestinian Non-Violence Richard Silverstein March 30, 2009 Gershom Gorenberg has done a Tom Friedman on us. This immensely intelligent and incisive commentator on the... Read More Read more about Gorenberg’s Fantasy of Palestinian Non-Violence
Barghouti-Pollard Prisoner Swap? Say What?? Mideast Peace Politics & Society Barghouti-Pollard Prisoner Swap? Say What?? Richard Silverstein April 20, 2006 Marwan Barghouti in Israeli chains, unbeaten and unbowed (credit: AP/Eitan Hess-Ashkenazi) The Forward details yet another harebrained... Read More Read more about Barghouti-Pollard Prisoner Swap? Say What??
Olmert Seeks Bush Approval of West Bank Withdrawal and Setting Borders Mideast Peace Olmert Seeks Bush Approval of West Bank Withdrawal and Setting Borders Richard Silverstein April 20, 2006 Gershon Gorenberg notes in The Forward that Ehud Olmert has decided to speed up his timetable for... Read More Read more about Olmert Seeks Bush Approval of West Bank Withdrawal and Setting Borders
Hamas to Play Major Role in Future Palestinian Government? Mideast Peace Hamas to Play Major Role in Future Palestinian Government? Richard Silverstein January 23, 2006 Haaretz reports that a Palestinian public opinion survey conducted by noted pollster Khalil Shikaki and released Saturday... Read More Read more about Hamas to Play Major Role in Future Palestinian Government?
Israeli Collusion With Palestinian Authority to Cancel Elections? Mideast Peace Politics & Society Israeli Collusion With Palestinian Authority to Cancel Elections? Richard Silverstein December 22, 2005 Today, we have the odd spectacle of the Israeli government announcing it will not permit Palestinian residents... Read More Read more about Israeli Collusion With Palestinian Authority to Cancel Elections?
Yossi Beilin Has Seen the Future and He Is Marwan Barghouti Mideast Peace Yossi Beilin Has Seen the Future and He Is Marwan Barghouti Richard Silverstein December 8, 2005 Yossi Beilin recently wrote an interesting column in the Forward in which he called for the immediate... Read More Read more about Yossi Beilin Has Seen the Future and He Is Marwan Barghouti