Fathom > Peace

Peace

The jibe ‘Progressive except for Palestine (PEP)’ is a cynical political strategy to exclude moderate progressives from debates on resolving...

By Philip Mendes
 In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, 'Progressive except for Palestine,' aimed... Read more > November 2021

Palestinian NGO Terror Links: Assessing the Implications of Israel’s Designations (1)

By Gerald M. Steinberg
 Fathom invited responses to the Israeli government’s decision to designate six Palestinian NGOs as prohibited terrorist fronts from... Read more > November 2021

Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel After the May 2021 Unrest: A Survey by Sammy Smooha

By Sammy Smooha
 In May 2021, for the first time in Israel, Arabs and Jews in the mixed cities of Haifa,... Read more > October 2021

Rasmea Odeh: How an unrepentant Palestinian terrorist became a political hero of the anti-Zionist left

By Cary Nelson
 Cary Nelson reviews Steven Lubet’s The Trials of Rasmea Odeh: How a Palestinian Guerilla Gained and Lost U.S. Citizenship.... Read more > October 2021

Amazon Prime's Human Factor: American negotiators and the failure of the Oslo Peace Process

By Calev Ben-Dor
 Calev Ben-Dor praises The Human Factor as a great piece of documentary making but argues it is ultimately... Read more > September 2021

Fathom Long Read | The Progressive Saviour Complex: Quakers, American Jews and Israel

By Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky
 Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky are senior non-resident scholars at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and co-authors... Read more > July 2021

The erasure from historical memory of Israeli statehood offers and Palestinian rejections is badly distorting today’s debate about Middle East...

By Salo Aizenberg
 The erasure from our historical memory of Israeli attempts to achieve peace by agreeing to Palestinian statehood, and... Read more > July 2021

Against Solutionism, Against Nowism: For ‘the Longer, Shorter Path’ | An interview with Moshe Ya'alon

By Moshe Ya'alon
 Former Israeli Minister of Defence Lieutenant General (Ret.) Moshe ‘Bogie’ Ya'alon was born in Kiryat Haim in 1950... Read more > June 2021

Opinion | The UK and EU should recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel — and Palestine

By Liam Hoare
 In April 1949, what was then the New Statesman and Nation — at the time aligned with the... Read more > June 2021

The Danger of Greater Israel

By Michael Walzer
 In this urgent essay, written before the new Israeli coalition government was agreed, but with great relevance to... Read more > June 2021

Peter Beinart and Palestinian Refugee ‘Return’: A Critique

By Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
 Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf are the authors of The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the... Read more > June 2021

The UK and US can help build an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. The time is now.

By John Lyndon
 This journal has long argued that people-to-people peacemaking programmes on a grand scale are essential to advance the... Read more > April 2021

Book Review | Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience

By Zeina M. Barakat
 To be entrusted with someone’s narrative is a privilege. To grant such access … is an act of... Read more > April 2021

What should Biden do next on Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Iran? A review essay by Yair Hirschfeld

By Yair Hirschfeld
 Professor Yair Hirschfeld was a key architect of the Oslo Accords in 1993. In this review essay he assesses the policy... Read more > February 2021

Existential conflicts cannot be solved: a new framework for resolving the Israeli–Palestinian dispute

By Bren Carlill
 'The Challenges of Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Dispute: An Impossible Peace?' is published this month by Palgrave Macmillan. In... Read more > January 2021

The Three Best Books on Settlements, recommended by Sara Hirschhorn

By Sara Hirschhorn
 Welcome to a new Fathom series in which experts select their three favourite books about a subject. To... Read more > January 2021

Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People | An interview with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy

By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
 Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding spoke with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy about Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and... Read more > November 2020

Symposium: Biden and Israel | The Abraham Accords shattered a policy paralysis and a cycle of failed mediation and negotiations...

By Alex Ryvchin
 Trump’s decision to upend the failed foreign policy establishment orthodoxy about the Middle East Peace Process is being... Read more > November 2020

Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘Biden will not reprise the acrimony of Barack Obama’s dealings with Israel. He may prove...

By Joshua Muravchik
 A Biden administration carries the promise of restoring bipartisanship to support for the Jewish state, says Joshua Muravchik.... Read more > November 2020

Symposium: Biden and Israel | Don't expect to see the Obama/Kerry paradigm

By Robert Satloff
 Robert Satloff, the Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argues that whilst the Middle... Read more > November 2020

Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘There is simply too much damage to repair around the world. The Israelis and the...

By Jo-Ann Mort
 A Biden/Harris administration will seek to return foreign policy to the Obama track, but the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will... Read more > November 2020

Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘The biggest challenge for US-Israeli relations will be Iran. The Biden team has been vague,...

By Jonathan Rynhold
 While the theatrics of Biden and Netanyahu’s personal relationship may engage the attention of media pundits, policymakers will... Read more > November 2020

Rabin’s 1989 Peace Initiative – When The Security Hawk First Displayed His Dovish Peace Policy

By Joel Singer
 Joel Singer is the former Legal Adviser to the Israeli Foreign Ministry under the Yitzhak Rabin-Shimon Peres Government. He... Read more > October 2020

Peter Beinart’s Grotesque Utopia

By Shany Mor
 Peter Beinart’s essay ‘Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine’ saw him give up in the two-state... Read more > October 2020

Fathom eBook | Rescuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Fathom Essays 2016-2020

By Fathom Editors
 Fathom's new eBook, Rescuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Fathom Essays 2016-2020, contains over 60 articles, reports and interviews. The editors believe it is the most comprehensive... Read more > September 2020

The UAE-Israel Deal: Like a Bridge Over Troubled Sands

By Koby Huberman
 Koby Huberman is co-founder of the Israeli Regional Initiative Group, which advocates a regional approach for a two-state... Read more > September 2020

Opinions | And the Walls Came Tumblin’ Down?

By Shaul Judelman
 Rabbi Shaul Judelman is the Israeli co-Director for the NGO Roots, a unique network of local Palestinians and Israelis... Read more > July 2020

'The unilateral application of Israeli sovereignty is necessary to move the peace process forward’: An Open Letter to Boris Johnson...

By Yossi Kuperwasser
 On 1 July the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote an op-ed in the Israeli press, titled ‘As... Read more > July 2020

Dore Gold, Amos Gilead and Ghaith al-Omari: Three views on annexation / applying Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank

By Fathom Editors
 BICOM-Fathom Webinar with Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilead on implications of Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank and Israel's... Read more > July 2020

The Soldiers are Still Talking

By Tal Kra-Oz
 Soldiers' Talk: Protective Edge (2019) is a set of interviews with those who served in Gaza in 2014.... Read more > June 2020

Israel’s Annexation Policy – Why Now and What Next?

By Calev Ben-Dor
 Deputy Fathom Editor Calev Ben-Dor offers Fathom readers a comprehensive review of the Israeli debate about, and likely... Read more > June 2020

Zionist Responses to the Trump Peace Plan (1): The Failure of the Old Paradigm

By Yossi Kuperwasser
 According to Brig.-Gen (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the real paradigm change in the Trump plan is that 'it deprives... Read more > March 2020

Zionist Responses to the Trump Peace Plan (2): Trump’s plan is mad, bad and dangerous to all

By Jack Omer-Jackaman
 Jack Omer-Jackaman is the author of Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut: Israel, Zionism and Anglo-Jewish identity 1948-1982... Read more > Article March 2020

Arab Council Takes Aim at Arab Laws Banning Contact with Israeli Citizens: an interview with Mostafa El-Dessouki

By Mostafa El-Dessouki
 At a watershed event in London last November, 32 prominent civil society figures from 15 Arab countries publicly... Read more > March 2020

Al-Wasatia: Reviving the Palestinian Peace Camp | an interview with Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi

By Mohammed Dajani Daoudi
 The great grandfather was the custodian of David’s Tomb and Daoudi, in reference to King David, was added... Read more > February 2020

The Last Dove: an interview with Ehud Olmert

By Tal Kra-Oz
 Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was one of Ariel Sharon’s closest political allies; in 2005 the two... Read more > February 2020

The genesis of the Trump plan lies in the Israeli Left | An interview with Efraim Inbar

By Efraim Inbar
 Professor Efraim Inbar tells Fathom deputy editor Neri Zilber about the delusions of the Oslo Peace Process, the... Read more > February 2020

Three Views of the Trump Plan: (3) Building a Better Trump Plan

By Michael Koplow
 Michael J. Koplow is Israel Policy Forum’s Policy Director, based in Washington, DC. He argues that Instead of... Read more > February 2020

Three Views on the Trump Plan: (2) A deal that drains the two-state solution and the very idea of peace...

By John Lyndon
 John Lyndon is Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). He argues that the Trump... Read more > February 2020

Three views on the Trump Plan: (1) Palestinians choose ‘the cause’ over statehood

By Alex Ryvchin
 Alex Ryvchin, co-Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), argues that the Trump Plan... Read more > February 2020

Most read

Voice of the Week

Our Voice of the Fortnight is David Horovitz, the founding editor of the Times of Israel, speaking to AIJAC on 15 November about the Bennett-Lapid government and its prospects for 2022.

Image of the Week

Menachem Begin playing chess during a break from the peace talks between Israel and Egypt at Camp David in the US, 9 September 1978. Photo by Moshe Milner, GPO.

From Our archives

670520230 We are paralysed by the failed search for a final...
By Micah Goodman
1600909328 2017 Fathom Interview with Naftali Bennett
By Naftali Bennett
1719686833 Feminism in Israel | Palestinian, Feminist, Peacebuilder: an interview with...
By Huda Abu Arqoub
1597647773 ‘With every day that passes, we seem to be going...
By Alona Vinograd
2870546781 Israel70 | ‘Leadership is telling your own people things that...
By Yair Lapid
1051218084 ‘A liberal society and respect for human rights are critically...
By Michael Sfard
1527475962 ‘I had planned to own a farm but I ended...
By Sharren Haskel
1007728260 Feminism in Israel | Authoritarian governance and Islamist ideology versus...
By Elham Manea
2177889748 Oslo25 | ‘We must liberate our thinking from the Oslo...
By Hussein Agha
74009602 Feminism in Israel | Feminism and Israeli-Palestinian Peace: an interview...
By Sarai Aharoni
1408131086 ‘Doing God’, or the importance of religious peacemaking: an interview...
By Michael Melchior
2131876046 ‘Telling Israel’s story in the 21st century will have a...
By Matti Friedman
2444114797 ‘What we are lacking is courageous leadership’: an interview with...
By Koby Huberman
1508467279 ‘Ars Poetica was the explosion of me writing poetry’: an...
By Adi Keissar
4153232941 ‘City of Oranges. An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews...
By Adam LeBor
2044647018 ‘Each must see the Other’: Education and mutual recognition in...
By Ayman Agbaria
1479744795 ‘I did not leave the Likud, the Likud left me’:...
By Moshe Ya'alon
176042305 ‘If we insist on 100 per cent of the land,...
By Ephraim Sneh
2408517408 ‘Israel needs social cohesion as well as nanotechnology’: an interview...
By Mike Prashker
3520712215 ‘The Jewish State is a must. Democracy is a must’...
By Elyakim Rubinstein
3344928501 ‘The assumption that a conflict of over 100 years can...
By Yair Hirschfeld
434688633 ‘The fight against ISIS was successful, but not on a...
By Seth Frantzman
1619043876 ‘The situation in Gaza is much worse than prior to...
By Giora Eiland
3195894940 1967 | ‘A deal with the region should go through...
By Nidal Foqaha
234840064 1967 | Internalising defeat – the Six-Day War and the...
By Kanan Makiya
1308919342 1967 | ‘The Palestinians won’t pay the price of peace,...
By Michael Oren
3238802500 ‘The Zionist Left needs to understand that change is impossible...
By Ayman Odeh
886619520 ‘The trends in high-tech are changing, but not at a...
By Reem Younis
1265979250 ‘There is a clash of civilisations’: An interview with Benny...
By Gabriel Noah Brahm
3609746073 ‘There is a window of opportunity to resolve our conflict...
By Shabtai Shavit
3306905970 ‘There is no policy, we are on the edge of...
By Efraim Halevy
805218021 ‘Understanding the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa...
By Lyn Julius
1846519305 ‘We have to share the land somehow. But for peace,...
By Yossi Kuperwasser
280249111 ‘The time to compromise is when you are strong’: an...
By Omer Bar-Lev