IDF to Wind Down Ground Operations in Gaza Mideast Peace IDF to Wind Down Ground Operations in Gaza Richard Silverstein December 24, 2023 The grinding costs of war are taking a toll on both sides of the Gaza conflict. There... Read More Read more about IDF to Wind Down Ground Operations in Gaza
Biden’s Band-Aid Solution for Gaza Mideast Peace Biden’s Band-Aid Solution for Gaza Richard Silverstein December 23, 2023 As Israel slaughters its way toward ethnically cleansing all of Gaza, the Biden administration and its Arab... Read More Read more about Biden’s Band-Aid Solution for Gaza
Israel’s State of Perpetual War and Death Mideast Peace Israel’s State of Perpetual War and Death Richard Silverstein November 16, 2023 I normally begin these posts with the latest death toll in order to bring home the horror... Read More Read more about Israel’s State of Perpetual War and Death
US Buys Off Abbas to Avert UN Anti-Settlement Resolution Mideast Peace US Buys Off Abbas to Avert UN Anti-Settlement Resolution Richard Silverstein February 20, 2023 The Palestinian Authority has had relative success in bringing its campaign for national rights to the United... Read More Read more about US Buys Off Abbas to Avert UN Anti-Settlement Resolution
Defiling the Dead: After Murdering Al Jazeera Journalist, Israel Further Tramples Her Memory Mideast Peace Defiling the Dead: After Murdering Al Jazeera Journalist, Israel Further Tramples Her Memory Richard Silverstein May 13, 2022 UPDATE: I published a link to this post on my Facebook timeline. Normally, it would display the... Read More Read more about Defiling the Dead: After Murdering Al Jazeera Journalist, Israel Further Tramples Her Memory
Turkish Intelligence: Mossad Operated Palestinian Cell Spying on Other Palestinians Mideast Peace Turkish Intelligence: Mossad Operated Palestinian Cell Spying on Other Palestinians Richard Silverstein October 24, 2021 Turkish intelligence announced it had broken up three different foreign spy rings operating on its territory this... Read More Read more about Turkish Intelligence: Mossad Operated Palestinian Cell Spying on Other Palestinians
In Contentious Meeting, Abbas Tells Shin Bet Chief: “You and I Can Both Sit Together in a Cell in the Hague!” Mideast Peace In Contentious Meeting, Abbas Tells Shin Bet Chief: “You and I Can Both Sit Together in a Cell in the Hague!” Richard Silverstein April 1, 2021 NOTE: I’ve published two articles on the Israeli elections. In Middle East Eye, I reported on the... Read More Read more about In Contentious Meeting, Abbas Tells Shin Bet Chief: “You and I Can Both Sit Together in a Cell in the Hague!”
Annexation and Its Ship of Fools Mideast Peace Annexation and Its Ship of Fools Richard Silverstein July 1, 2020 Israeli annexation of the West Bank, which the Netanyahu government has tentatively scheduled for implementation today, July... Read More Read more about Annexation and Its Ship of Fools
Kushner’s Deal of Century Looks Like Delusion of the Century Mideast Peace Politics & Society Kushner’s Deal of Century Looks Like Delusion of the Century Richard Silverstein August 3, 2018 In the past, I’ve found the AP’s Matt Lee to be a sharp, skeptical journalist when covering... Read More Read more about Kushner’s Deal of Century Looks Like Delusion of the Century
ICC Reaches Out to Palestinian Victims as War Crimes Case Enters Pre-Trial Phase Mideast Peace ICC Reaches Out to Palestinian Victims as War Crimes Case Enters Pre-Trial Phase Richard Silverstein August 2, 2018 An edited version of this article was published recently in Middle East Eye. This is the complete... Read More Read more about ICC Reaches Out to Palestinian Victims as War Crimes Case Enters Pre-Trial Phase
Palestine: Welcome to My Bantustan Mideast Peace Palestine: Welcome to My Bantustan Richard Silverstein January 31, 2018 There was an old Alice Cooper album called, Welcome to My Nightmare. I thought of that when... Read More Read more about Palestine: Welcome to My Bantustan
Failed Mossad Assassination of Hamas Operative in Lebanon Mideast Peace Failed Mossad Assassination of Hamas Operative in Lebanon Richard Silverstein January 30, 2018 Despite Ronen Bergman’s new book, which largely lionizes the Mossad for their ‘feats of heroism and courage’... Read More Read more about Failed Mossad Assassination of Hamas Operative in Lebanon