The New U.S. Peace Initiative Isn’t a Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict—Nor Should It Be
The new plan and its predecessors.
February 12, 2020
The New U.S. Peace Initiative Isn’t a Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict—Nor Should It Be
The new plan and its predecessors.
Interviewed by Neri Zilber, Efraim Inbar compares the current American proposal for creating a Palestinian state with the plan for territorial compromise set forth by the Labor politician Yigal Allon in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. Like that plan, the new plan “gives Israel control over the Jordan Valley, keeping Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty,” while proposing withdrawal from other West Bank territory. To Zilber’s question of whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be willing to go along with it, Inbar responds:
February 12, 2020
How a Peerless Scholar of Victorian England Found Hope in Jewish History
Gertrude Himmelfarb wanted the Jewish people to be defined by the qualities that had enabled it to endure.
Can Middle Eastern Christians Lead the Way in Combating Anti-Semitism?
An Iraqi-Canadian bishop reflects on the Abrahamic legacy.
The Untold Story of the Jewish State’s Founding Document
Declaring Israel’s independence.
A Sukkot Picnic with Natan Sharansky
Reflections on the anniversary of the celebrated refusenik’s release.