Fathom 16 | Editorial

By Fathom Editors
On its 50th anniversary, this special issue of Fathom maps the causes, courses and consequences... Read more >

Einat Wilf: Constructive ambiguity has not worked. Peace...

By Einat Wilf
Einat Wilf is one of the most creative Israeli thinkers on the peace process. In... Read more >

1967 | How the Six-Day War is still...

By Donna Robinson Divine
For most Israelis, the military victory of 1967 rescued the country from an existential threat.... Read more >

Fathom Forum | Professor Sammy Smooha: ‘Israeli Democracy...

By Sammy Smooha
Sammy Smooha is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Haifa, and winner of... Read more >

1967 | ‘A deal with the region should...

By Nidal Foqaha
Nidal Foqaha is Director-General of the Palestinian Peace Coalition-Geneva Initiative in Ramallah. He served as... Read more >

1967 | ‘The Palestinians won’t pay the price...

By Michael Oren
Michael Oren is a former Israeli ambassador to the US and currently serves as Deputy... Read more >

1967 | How Nasser’s vendetta against America led...

By Gabriel Glickman
For 50 years historians have debated the question of what motivated Egyptian President Gamal Abdel... Read more >

1967 | The international media and the Six-Day...

By Meron Medzini
Professor Meron Medzini served as the Director of Israel’s Government Press Office (GPO) in Jerusalem... Read more >

1967 | As long as the Arab world...

By Einat Wilf
To bring a permanent end to the Israeli military occupation of much of the territory... Read more >

‘The situation in Gaza is much worse than...

By Giora Eiland
Giora Eiland served in the IDF for 33 years, rising to Major General. He left... Read more >

1967 | Internalising defeat – the Six-Day War...

By Kanan Makiya
Kanan Makiya is known for two seminal books - Republic of Fear, which called attention... Read more >

Abbas in Washington: dancing in place or moving...

By Daniel B. Shapiro
Writing exclusively for Fathom, Daniel B. Shapiro, former Ambassador of the United States of America... Read more >

1967 | Why more and more Israeli Jews...

By Oded Haklai
Oded Haklai reports on research suggesting that for the generations of Israeli Jews born after... Read more >

Book Review | A Political Theory for the...

By Nahshon Perez
A Political Theory for the Jewish People is a fascinating book, offering a rich and... Read more >

Ken Livingstone and the myth of Zionist ‘collaboration’...

By Paul Bogdanor
In this meticulous rebuttal of the former Mayor of London’s charge that ‘you had right... Read more >

Book Review | North Korea and the Middle...

By Jack May
At a recent conference Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman identified North Korea as the greatest... Read more >

1967 | The wisdom of Resolution 242

By Toby Greene
The logic of UN Resolution 242 – that this is a conflict of two sides... Read more >

Book review | Israel and Palestine Alternative Perspectives...

By John Strawson
It is extraordinary that 70 years after the UN partition resolution we are still discussing... Read more >

New thinking on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: towards...

By BICOM
The peace process is currently at an impasse. Bringing the parties together for another intensive... Read more >

1967 | Don’t believe the hype: the settlers...

By Orni Petruschka and Gilead Sher
After 50 years of Israeli control over the West Bank, increasing numbers believe that a... Read more >

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... Read more >

Response to Michael Walzer’s ‘On Chaim Gans on...

By Chaim Gans
Writing in Fathom Michael Walzer responded to the discussion of diaspora Jews in Chaim Gans’s... Read more >

‘I did not leave the Likud, the Likud...

By Moshe Ya'alon
Moshe Ya'alon is a former Chief of Staff for the IDF and served under the... Read more >

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... Read more >

1967 | The Six-Day War and Israeli society:...

By Yossi Klein Halevi
Yossi Klein Halevi is the author of the acclaimed book Like Dreamers: The Story of... Read more >

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... Read more >

1967 | The Global Left and the Six-Day...

By Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of... Read more >

1967 | Natan Alterman or Amos Oz? The...

By Liam Hoare
Israeli writers were split by the Six-Day War. On one side was the poet Natan... Read more >

1967 | The Six-Day War was a watershed...

By Asher Susser
The Arab defeat in 1967 shattered the image of pan-Arabism as a vehicle of Arab... Read more >

Book Review | The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda,...

By Kyle Orton
Brian Fishman's The Master Plan provides a comprehensive history of the Islamic State’s (IS) strategic... Read more >

Book Review | The Resistible Rise of Benjamin...

By Colin Shindler
Admiration and respect are not words usually attached to the persona of Benjamin Netanyahu by... Read more >

State and religion in Israel: An interview with...

By Elazar Stern
Elazar Stern is an Israeli politician and former soldier. He served as a Major General... Read more >

Fathom Forum | Jeffrey Herf: Undeclared Wars with...

By Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His books include... Read more >

Seize the Moment – Build a New Regional...

By Koby Huberman
The two-state solution is the only viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet we need... Read more >

Fathom Forum | Gabrielle Rifkind: Fog of Peace:...

By Gabrielle Rifkind
Gabrielle Rifkind is director of the Oxford Process Programme at Oxford Research Group (ORG), an... Read more >