Israeli tanks in the Sinai Desert, 1973 (Image: Public domain)
From 1973 to Israel’s next war
This October, Israel will mark 50 years since...
Clinton appreciated Netanyahu’s political skills, but the two were divided over some key policy issues, leading to a tense relationship (Image: Shutterstock)
Essay: Bibi’s seven presidents
Netanyahu’s history of managing US-Israel relations   Binyamin...
Destined to be an iconic landmark: The new National Library of Israel (Image: Herzog & De Meuron/ National Library of Israel/ Twitter)
Biblio File: Unique monument for the “People of the Book”
Israel’s stunning new national library   The Zionist...
Hamas’ suicide bombing campaign in the mid-1990s, which targeted buses especially, severely undermined the Israeli peace camp (Image: Isranet)
Oslo’s failure: A Palestinian perspective
The 1991 Madrid Peace Conference brought a glimmer...
Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu (r) gets his long-awaited face-to-face meeting with US President Joe Biden in New York (Photo: Avi Ohayon, Israeli Government Press Office)
Netanyahu meets Biden, other world leaders, in New York
Update 09/23 #02   It seems fair to...
Transformative: The Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House on Sept. 15, 2020 (Image: Shutterstock)
The Abraham Accords at three
Israeli-Arab normalisation remains a fount of hope   ...
Israeli aid workers in Morocco (Image: United Hatzalah)
Behind the News – October 2023
ROCKET AND TERROR REPORT No rockets were fired...
Netanyahu, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and PA President Mahmoud Abbas in 2010: Despite his scepticism, even Netanyahu pursued the Oslo model (Image: GPO/ Isranet)
Oslo did not succeed, but what’s the alternative?
The summer of 1993 was a mix of...
The lesson of Oslo is that management of the conflict is the best Israel can do for now, according to Inbar, and a strong IDF thus remains essential (Image: Isranet)
The lessons of Oslo’s failure
Failures can be costly but instructive. The Oslo...
PA President Mahmoud appears to be doubling down on antisemtiic comments because he regards them as essential to the Palestinian “narrative”(Image: Shutterstock)
Scribblings: Why Mahmoud Abbas says horrible, antisemitic things
“Moderate” Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas was...
Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin: It became clear Arafat’s priority was getting a foothold in “Palestine”, but that he would never consider long-term compromise (Image: GPO/ Flickr)
Oslo at 30
An insider's view on what went wrong  ...
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Editorial: A year of hope or disaster?
In Jewish tradition, the High Holy Days period...
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