Nathan Thrall

The Endless Occupation, a New Understanding

“Today’s reality in Israel-Palestine is at odds with everything the United States claims to stand for.”

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

Mideast: A Last Chance

If President Obama is to salvage his legacy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he will have to support a parameters resolution at the Security Council.

Why Did George Mitchell Resign?

Why the US Gets Israel Wrong

Of Skeptics, Reproachers, and Embracers

Whose Palestine?

For a moment in early June, as Hamas ministers in Gaza surrendered their authority to a new government of national consensus, it seemed that Palestine’s political leadership was on the verge of a historic shift. But in the days since, little has changed in Gaza or in Palestinian relations with the West.

Netanyahu, Then and Now

In 1978 a young American citizen then going under the Anglicized name Ben Nitay argued that Palestinians do not have a right to a state, that they could instead get citizenship in Jordan or Israel, and that their goal is not to build a state but to destroy one. Today Benjamin Netanyahu argues against these very same views, which are still espoused by members of a strengthening, more conservative faction of his Likud party.

What Future for Israel?

Our Man in Palestine