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How Israel Misread Palestinian Intentions
By Evan Gottesman
Last weekend’s brief and bloody spat between Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Israel obscured another simmering crisis in...
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May 2019
Oslo25 | ‘We must liberate our thinking from the Oslo straitjacket’: An interview with Hussein Agha
By Hussein Agha
Hussein Agha has been involved in Palestinian peace negotiations for three decades. A senior associate member of St....
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August 2018
The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas: an interview with Grant Rumley and Amir Tibon
By Grant Rumley and Amir Tibon
Fathom Assistant Editor Samuel Nurding sat down with Grant Rumley and Amir Tibon to discuss their new book...
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Summer 2017
Balfour 100 | Repairing the World: why Britain should now recognise the State of Palestine
By Elias Zananiri
Elias Zananiri, Vice-Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society, argues that...
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Summer 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
How to change reality in Gaza and shape the evolution of Hamas: an interview with Grisha Yakubovich
By Grisha Yakubovich
Col. (res) Grisha Yakubovich spent the majority of his 30 years in the IDF in the Coordinator of...
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Winter 2016
‘Cooperation between rivals’: a new paradigm for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian system (2006-2016)
By Doron Matza
Doron Matza proposes a new critical paradigm to understand the relationship between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships: ‘cooperation...
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Winter 2016
The Israeli-Palestinian Arena – what could be done short of an agreement
By Michael Herzog
Michael Herzog has been a participant in nearly all Israeli-Palestinian negotiations since 1993. In this important essay, which...
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Autumn 2016
Symposium | A security system for the two-state solution
By Kris Bauman & Ilan Goldenberg
Colonel Kris Bauman is Senior Military Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at the National...
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Autumn 2016
After Oslo’s failure, the two-state solution is now an international responsibility: an interview with Husam Zomlot
By Husam Zomlot
Husam Zomlot serves as ambassador-at-large for the state of Palestine and adjunct professor of Government at Birzeit University....
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Summer 2016
Assessing the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Policy
By Grant Rumley and Adam Rasgon
Has the internationalisation strategy pushed by President Abbas transformed international public opinion and diplomacy and set the Palestinians...
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Summer 2016
Perry Anderson’s House of Zion: A Symposium | John Strawson
By John Strawson
One-State is a Trap for Two Peoples in Palestine and Israel Editorial introduction to the Symposium: Perry Anderson’s...
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Spring 2016
Two-state solution 2.0: New Israeli thinking on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Toby Greene
A number of proposals for how Israel can act to change the status quo in the Israeli-Palestinian arena...
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Spring 2016
‘There is no policy, we are on the edge of a volcano’: an interview with Efraim Halevy
By Efraim Halevy
Efraim Halevy was Director of Mossad from 1998 to 2002. Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. They...
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Winter 2015
How the World Turned Against Israel: an interview with Joshua Muravchik
By Joshua Muravchik
Israel was once the plucky underdog supported by Western public opinion, Left and Right. Today, it is the...
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Autumn 2014
Palestinian politics after the Gaza conflict: Ben Cohen interviews David Pollock
By Ben Cohen
Where is Palestinian politics going? Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen talked to David Pollock. Hamas ‘It's not unreasonable...
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Autumn 2014
Shlomo Brom | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Shlomo Brom
Part 1 Part 2 Toby Greene: We have been interviewing a number of analysts over the last few...
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Summer 2014
Emily Landau | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Emily B. Landau
Toby Greene: We’ve been speaking to a range of experts about how to bring a substantial long-term change...
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Summer 2014
Benedetta Berti | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Benedetta Berti
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. To avoid a fourth, Udi Dekel and Shlomo Brom of...
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Summer 2014
Einat Wilf | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Einat Wilf
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but...
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Summer 2014
Gershon Baskin | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Gershon Baskin
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just the Israelis and Gazans,...
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Summer 2014
Asher Susser | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Asher Susser
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but...
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Summer 2014
Jonathan Spyer | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Jonathan Spyer
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but...
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Summer 2014
Michael Herzog | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Michael Herzog
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just Israelis and Gazans, but...
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Summer 2014
Jonathan Rynhold | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Jonathan Rynhold
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. Not just the Israelis and Gazans,...
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Summer 2014
Matthew Levitt | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Matthew Levitt
Alan Johnson: There have been three military operations in Gaza since 2008. To avoid a fourth, Udi Dekel and...
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Summer 2014
Time to End Palestinian Incitement
By David Pollock
The glorification of violence in Palestinian Authority media must be addressed if peace talks are to succeed. Even...
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Autumn 2013
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