Israel and Palestine

History Matters

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians

  • Joseph Levine

The Mirror

Imagining justice in Palestine.

  • Elias Khoury

Breakout

Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.

  • Helena Cobban

All That Is Given

Hannah Arendt on being Jewish.

  • Vivian Gornick

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War spreads.

  • Nir Rosen

Back to the Future

On Israel’s existential crisis.

  • Robert Blecher
  • Jeremy Pressman

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A Measure of Splendor

The poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali. 

  • Victoria Chang

The 33-Day War

Hizbullah’s victory, Israel’s choice.

  • Helena Cobban

Native Speaker

An Arab citizen of Israel and a native speaker of Palestinian Arabic, Sayed Kashua writes in Hebrew.

  • Laila Lalami

Hamas’s Next Steps

Finding the road to Palestine.

  • Helena Cobban

New Jews from the Old Country

A new wave of immigrant fiction.

  • Val Vinokur

Lost Opportunities

Without Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians would not have been as committed to a two-state solution as they are today.

  • Jeremy Pressman

Dead End

Is there a future for secular Palestinian nationalism?

  • Helena Cobban

The Iraqi Shiites

On the history of America’s would-be allies.

  • Juan Cole

The Diaspora and the Intifada

The responsibility of American Jews.

  • Ben-Zion Gold

The Case for Binationalism

Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.

  • Lama Abu-Odeh
with responses from
  • Helena Cobban
  • Leonard Fein
  • Louis Michael Seidman
  • Ian S. Lustick
  • Ebrahim Moosa
  • Efraim Karsh
  • Jerome M. Segal
  • Salim Tamari

The Last Time I Saw Yaakov

No matter how political things seem, they are invariably personal.

  • Neil Gordon

Embattled Lebanon

For the last ten years, the country has been held hostage by its own people and by regional wars and revolutions.

  • Sherman Teichman

Palestinian Writers in Israel

An interview with Samih al-Qasim and Emile Habibi.

  • Samih al-Qasim
  • Emile Habibi
  • Roger Hardy
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