Fathom Forum | Professor Sammy Smooha: ‘Israeli Democracy in Comparative Perspective’
By Sammy Smooha
Sammy Smooha is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Haifa, and winner of the 2008 Israel...
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Spring 2017
1967 | How the Six-Day War is still transforming Israel
By Donna Robinson Divine
For most Israelis, the military victory of 1967 rescued the country from an existential threat. But for some,...
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Spring 2017
1967 | How Nasser’s vendetta against America led to the Six-Day War
By Gabriel Glickman
For 50 years historians have debated the question of what motivated Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s disastrous drift...
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Spring 2017
‘The situation in Gaza is much worse than prior to the war in 2014’: an interview with Giora Eiland
By Giora Eiland
Giora Eiland served in the IDF for 33 years, rising to Major General. He left the IDF in...
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Spring 2017
Abbas in Washington: dancing in place or moving forward?
By Daniel B. Shapiro
Writing exclusively for Fathom, Daniel B. Shapiro, former Ambassador of the United States of America to the State...
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Spring 2017
1967 | Internalising defeat – the Six-Day War and the Arab world: an interview with Kanan Makiya
By Kanan Makiya
Kanan Makiya is known for two seminal books - Republic of Fear, which called attention to the cruel...
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Spring 2017
1967 | Why more and more Israeli Jews think the settlements are in Israel
By Oded Haklai
Oded Haklai reports on research suggesting that for the generations of Israeli Jews born after 1967, the pre-1967...
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Spring 2017
Book Review | A Political Theory for the Jewish People
By Nahshon Perez
A Political Theory for the Jewish People is a fascinating book, offering a rich and nuanced discussion of...
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Spring 2017
Book Review | North Korea and the Middle East
By Jack May
At a recent conference Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman identified North Korea as the greatest threat to global...
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Spring 2017
Ken Livingstone and the myth of Zionist ‘collaboration’ with the Nazis
By Paul Bogdanor
In this meticulous rebuttal of the former Mayor of London’s charge that ‘you had right up until the...
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Spring 2017
Book review | Israel and Palestine Alternative Perspectives on Statehood
By John Strawson
It is extraordinary that 70 years after the UN partition resolution we are still discussing the future of...
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Spring 2017
1967 | The wisdom of Resolution 242
By Toby Greene
The logic of UN Resolution 242 – that this is a conflict of two sides with rights and...
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Spring 2017
New thinking on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: towards a hybrid approach
By BICOM
The peace process is currently at an impasse. Bringing the parties together for another intensive effort at reaching...
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Spring 2017
Response to Michael Walzer’s ‘On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora’
By Chaim Gans
Writing in Fathom Michael Walzer responded to the discussion of diaspora Jews in Chaim Gans’s book A Political...
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Spring 2017
On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora
By Michael Walzer
Fathom has invited a series of writers to respond to Chaim Gans’s A Political Theory for the Jewish...
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Spring 2017
1967 | Don’t believe the hype: the settlers have not made the two-state solution unachievable
By Orni Petruschka and Gilead Sher
After 50 years of Israeli control over the West Bank, increasing numbers believe that a ‘two states for...
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Spring 2017
‘I did not leave the Likud, the Likud left me’: an interview with Moshe Ya’alon
By Moshe Ya'alon
Moshe Ya'alon is a former Chief of Staff for the IDF and served under the Netanyahu government for...
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Spring 2017
Fathom 16 | Editorial
By Fathom Editors
On its 50th anniversary, this special issue of Fathom maps the causes, courses and consequences of a watershed...
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Spring 2017
1967 | Natan Alterman or Amos Oz? The Six-Day War and Israeli Literature
By Liam Hoare
Israeli writers were split by the Six-Day War. On one side was the poet Natan Alterman, whose Movement...
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Spring 2017
1967 | As long as the Arab world views Israel as a temporary aberration to be conquered, Israel will stand...
By Einat Wilf
To bring a permanent end to the Israeli military occupation of much of the territory acquired during the...
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Spring 2017
Book Review | The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory
By Kyle Orton
Brian Fishman's The Master Plan provides a comprehensive history of the Islamic State’s (IS) strategic evolution, covering the...
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Spring 2017
Book Review | The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu
By Colin Shindler
Admiration and respect are not words usually attached to the persona of Benjamin Netanyahu by either friend or...
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Spring 2017
1967 | The Six-Day War and Israeli society: an interview with Yossi Klein Halevi
By Yossi Klein Halevi
Yossi Klein Halevi is the author of the acclaimed book Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers...
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Spring 2017
1967 | Remembering the Six-Day War
By Michael Walzer
One of America’s foremost political thinkers, Michael Walzer wrote his seminal book Just and Unjust Wars in 1977....
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Spring 2017
1967 | Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel
By Matthias Kuntzel
Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of...
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Spring 2017
1967 | The Global Left and the Six-Day War
By Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park,...
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Spring 2017
State and religion in Israel: An interview with Elazar Stern
By Elazar Stern
Elazar Stern is an Israeli politician and former soldier. He served as a Major General in the IDF...
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Spring 2017
Fathom Forum | Jeffrey Herf: Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-81
By Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His books include Nazi Propaganda for...
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Spring 2017
Seize the Moment – Build a New Regional Paradigm
By Koby Huberman
The two-state solution is the only viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet we need a new paradigm...
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Spring 2017
1967 | The Six-Day War was a watershed in Middle Eastern history
By Asher Susser
The Arab defeat in 1967 shattered the image of pan-Arabism as a vehicle of Arab modernisation. The Islamists...
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Spring 2017
Fathom Forum | Gabrielle Rifkind: Fog of Peace: How to Prevent War
By Gabrielle Rifkind
Gabrielle Rifkind is director of the Oxford Process Programme at Oxford Research Group (ORG), an independent peace and...
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Spring 2017
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