UN Two-State Conference: Beating a Dead Horse Mideast Peace UN Two-State Conference: Beating a Dead Horse Richard Silverstein June 10, 2025 France and Saudi Arabia are hosting a UN conference next week, in which they will attempt to... Read More Read more about UN Two-State Conference: Beating a Dead Horse
IDF Murders 80 Palestinians at US-Israel Aid Site, Mossad Funding $140-Million Operation, US Consulting Firm Quits Mideast Peace IDF Murders 80 Palestinians at US-Israel Aid Site, Mossad Funding $140-Million Operation, US Consulting Firm Quits Richard Silverstein June 4, 2025 Over the past three days, the IDF murdered “more than 80” Palestinians desperately seeking food aid from... Read More Read more about IDF Murders 80 Palestinians at US-Israel Aid Site, Mossad Funding $140-Million Operation, US Consulting Firm Quits
Trump Breaks With Sixty Years of US-Israel Relations Mideast Peace Trump Breaks With Sixty Years of US-Israel Relations Richard Silverstein May 15, 2025 In the past two weeks Pres. Trump has shattered the norms of US-Israel relations. It is the... Read More Read more about Trump Breaks With Sixty Years of US-Israel Relations
Gaza Ceasefire: Exercise in Hope or Futility? Mideast Peace Gaza Ceasefire: Exercise in Hope or Futility? Richard Silverstein January 14, 2025 UPDATE: This post was published yesterday, before the formal confirmation of the hostage deal. While it’s wonderful... Read More Read more about Gaza Ceasefire: Exercise in Hope or Futility?
US Advocated Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza Mideast Peace US Advocated Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza Richard Silverstein January 3, 2024 The media has buried one of the most shameful stories regarding Biden ministration collaboration with Israel in... Read More Read more about US Advocated Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
US Rejected Palestinian Deal that Would Have Avoided 10/7 Mideast Peace US Rejected Palestinian Deal that Would Have Avoided 10/7 Richard Silverstein January 1, 2024 In 2006, Hamas won a legislative election for the Palestinian parliament. The result rankled the Bush administration.... Read More Read more about US Rejected Palestinian Deal that Would Have Avoided 10/7
Israel’s ‘Total War’ Strategy in Gaza Mideast Peace Israel’s ‘Total War’ Strategy in Gaza Richard Silverstein November 4, 2023 A somnolent world continues its sleepwalk through Gaza’s House of Death. There are so very many horrible... Read More Read more about Israel’s ‘Total War’ Strategy in Gaza
Israel-Saudi Normalization: the Fix is In Mideast Peace Israel-Saudi Normalization: the Fix is In Richard Silverstein October 2, 2023 The Biden administration has approved Israel for its visa waiver program despite its abysmal record record on... Read More Read more about Israel-Saudi Normalization: the Fix is In
Saudi Arabia to Normalize With Israel, Palestinian Authority to Get Billion-Dollar Buyoff Mideast Peace Saudi Arabia to Normalize With Israel, Palestinian Authority to Get Billion-Dollar Buyoff Richard Silverstein September 7, 2023 US officials are currently in Saudi Arabia meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Palestinian Authority... Read More Read more about Saudi Arabia to Normalize With Israel, Palestinian Authority to Get Billion-Dollar Buyoff
US-Iran Nuclear “Understanding” Imminent Mideast Peace Military-Tech-Security US-Iran Nuclear “Understanding” Imminent Richard Silverstein June 16, 2023 A miracle is in the offing. I, who have reported here about Israeli national security matters for... Read More Read more about US-Iran Nuclear “Understanding” Imminent
Iran’s Major Diplomatic Successes Offer Promise of Regional Stability Mideast Peace Iran’s Major Diplomatic Successes Offer Promise of Regional Stability Richard Silverstein June 6, 2023 Over the past few months, Iran has achieved major successes in advancing its regional interests. Most recently,... Read More Read more about Iran’s Major Diplomatic Successes Offer Promise of Regional Stability
Former Mossad Chief: Ask China to Mediate for Iran-Israel Relations Military-Tech-Security Former Mossad Chief: Ask China to Mediate for Iran-Israel Relations Richard Silverstein March 14, 2023 In 2000, Ariel Sharon made a Jewish ‘pilgrimage’ to what he called the Temple Mount. What Muslims... Read More Read more about Former Mossad Chief: Ask China to Mediate for Iran-Israel Relations