Time for a Revolution in Israel’s Global Engagement
By Gidi Grinstein and Daphna Kaufman
Israel needs a revolution in how it thinks about foreign relations. To meet huge external challenges it needs...
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Spring 2014
Disaster in the Levant: the Syrian Civil War in its fourth year
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer is one of the few policy experts to regularly visit the front lines in Syria. In...
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Spring 2014
Demarcating the Israeli-Palestinian Border
By Professor David Newman
One reason for the foundering of the recent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was the failure of the parties to...
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Spring 2014
Israel’s National-Religious Jews and the quest for peace
By Ofer Zalzberg
The Middle East Peace Process has often marginalised the voice of the ‘National-Religious,’ or ‘Religious Zionist’ Jews. Ofer...
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Spring 2014
The Two-State Solution: The Way Forward
By Manuel Hassassian and Raphael Cohen-Almagor
When we launched Fathom the editors declared that the journal would be ‘a partisan and artisan of the...
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Spring 2014
Mutual recognition is essential for a solution
By Toby Greene
The Hassassian and Cohen-Almagor document is commendable for its embrace of mutual recognition, respect and dialogue, even if...
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Spring 2014
Philosophers For Hamas!
By Gabriel Noah Brahm
A leading European philosopher has declared for killing ‘Zionists’ and arming Hamas. Gabriel Brahm asks what it all...
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Spring 2014
The new assault on Israeli academia (and us)
By Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors and co-editor of The Case Against Academic...
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Spring 2014
The ISIS-Kurdish War
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer, a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specialising in the areas of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria...
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Summer 2014
The Journey of the Kurds
By Gary Kent
The journey of Iraqi Kurdistan from dictatorship to democracy has been remarkable. Gary Kent reports on the transformation...
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Spring 2014
Holocaust Inversion and contemporary antisemitism
By Lesley Klaff
One of the cruellest aspects of the new antisemitism is its perverse use of the Holocaust as a...
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Winter 2014
The Politics of Benjamin Netanyahu: an interview with Aluf Benn
By Aluf Benn
Aluf Benn, Editor in Chief of Haaretz newspaper spoke to Fathom Editor Alan Johnson about the politics and...
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Winter 2014
Christianophobia: an interview with Rupert Shortt
By Rupert Shortt
Rupert Shortt is the author of Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack and religion editor of the Times Literary...
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Autumn 2013
Book Review: The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power
By Eric Trager
In the decade following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Western analysts’ search for a ‘moderate Islamist’ alternative to Al-Qaeda...
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Summer 2013
‘We should still be prepared to intervene’: Richard Perle on George W. Bush, Barack Obama and the Arab Spring
By Alan Mendoza
One of the leading neoconservative intellectuals of the last half century, Richard Perle was Assistant Secretary of Defense...
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Summer 2013
A moment to seize in the Israeli-Palestinian arena
By Michael Herzog
In March 2013 Brig. Gen. (ret.) Michael Herzog analysed a possible opportunity in the Israeli-Palestinian arena for BICOM. Here...
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Summer 2013
Needed: a paradigm shift in the ‘Middle East Peace Process’
By Shlomo Avineri
Almost twenty years after the signing of the Oslo Agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, the...
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Spring 2013
The right to democracy
By Amnon Rubinstein
There is a paradox at the heart of human rights discourse – its failure to recognise the right...
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Spring 2013
Obama’s second term: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not yet soluble
By Joshua Muravchik
There is no alternative to the two-state solution, but neither party is yet in a position to make...
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Spring 2013
Shifting world, shifting priorities
By Toby Greene
The global economic crisis and the Arab Spring have impacted but not transformed the Britain-Israel relationship. Toby Greene...
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Winter 2013
Israel’s new strategic environment
By Asher Susser
Israel used to fear the potential of Arab power. Now it must be wary of the fallout from...
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Winter 2013
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