Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to the Middle East this weekend and hold a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Her stated purpose is to discuss permanent-status issues with an eye…
read moreOn February 14, 2007, Institute senior fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process David Makovsky testified before the House International Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. The following is a synopsis…
read moreJust over three years ago, at the first-ever global forum on anti-Semitism organized by the State of Israel, the essential task was to define the beast – the new anti-Semitism. Since then, as the fourth such global gathering meets this…
read moreThis is the second of a two-part examination of the meaning and implications of the Mecca accord. Read part one. The Fatah-Hamas unity agreement reached in Mecca last week has powerful implications for all regional players. The most serious challenge…
read moreThis is the first of a two-part examination of the meaning and implications of the Mecca accord. Read part two . The Fatah-Hamas agreement mediated by the Saudis last week in Mecca revives a long tradition in Palestinian politics of…
read moreIn 1915, John Dewey of Columbia University and Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins University came together with other educators to establish the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an organization designed to preserve the integrity of the academy from a…
read moreJudea Pearl was asked to write a column on peace between Palestine & Israel for the Saudi Gazette and Ramzi Khoury was asked to write his take in a column to be published side by side. This article is being…
read moreIntroduction The January 2006 Palestinian elections were expected to stabilize highly negative domestic dynamics and bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Instead, Hamas, the Islamist group, won 44% of the national vote and 56% of the seats…
read moreSPME Editor’s Note: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East offers these articles for the purposes of awareness with a sense of urgency that the responsible Jewish academic world must brace itself for and respond with academic swiftness and rigor.…
read moreThe new Palestinian unity government creates a real problem for Israel. It will be headed by a senior Hamas figure, Ismail Haniyeh. Moreover, it will not recognize Israel and does not pretend to meet the Quartet’s conditions, as one Hamas…
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