Publications

Policy Analysis
Turnover: What Are the Implications of Recent and Upcoming Changes in Hamas?
Mar 15, 2017Yousef Munayyer
BackgroundSince its establishment in the 1980s, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, has increasingly become an important player in domestic …
Policy Analysis
J Street Annual Conference: “Defending Our Values: Fighting for Our Future”
Mar 8, 2017Roxanne Perugino
J Street, the liberal left-of-center Jewish pro-peace, pro-Israel organization held its sixth annual conference at the end of February in Washington, DC. Over …
Policy Analysis
Netanyahu and Trump Chart New US-Israel Relationship
Feb 26, 2017Yousef Munayyer
BackgroundOn February 15, 2017, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump met in the White House for the first time since America’s …
Policy Analysis
Receiving Netanyahu, Trump Must Emphasize America’s Interests
Feb 14, 2017Imad K. Harb
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to Washington this week to officially reset US-Israeli relations after the chill of the last few years of the Obama Adm…
Policy Analysis
Netanyahu Unrestrained: The Trump Effect on Israeli Politics
Feb 3, 2017Yousef Munayyer
BackgroundSince 2009, there have been two constants in the American-Israeli relationship: Barack Obama was President of the United States and Benjamin Netanyah…
Policy Analysis
Forget Paris. It Won’t be Hard
Jan 25, 2017Yousef Munayyer
The Paris Peace Conference of January 15, 2017, barely amounted to a singular blip on radar. Some 70 countries participated in what was among the largest inter…
Policy Analysis
The Battle for DNC Chair: Palestine and Democratic Party Politics after Trump’s Election
Jan 17, 2017Tamara Kharroub
2016 was a tumultuous year for the Democratic Party. Democrats lost the White House, both houses of Congress, and a large number of gubernatorial races (two-th…
Policy Analysis
Recalculating Route: America and Israel on Divergent Paths
Jan 3, 2017Yousef Munayyer
In May 2016, I wrote that the Obama Administration should carefully weigh options for how to address the Israeli/Palestinian issue during its last months in of…
Policy Analysis
UN Security Council Passes Resolution Against Israeli Settlements
Dec 23, 2016
On Wednesday, December 21, 2016, Egypt circulated a draft resolution calling for an end to Israeli settlements and demanding Israel to “immediately and complet…
Policy Analysis
Breaking Ground in Jerusalem
Dec 22, 2016Yousef Munayyer
Some things are utterly predictable. The sun will always rise in the east, rain will always be wet, and US presidential candidates who promise to move the Amer…
Policy Analysis
Trump’s “Ultimate Deal” on Palestine/Israel
Dec 8, 2016Tamara Kharroub
In the first interview after his election victory, Donald J. Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he wants to broker a deal between Israel and the Palestini…
Policy Analysis
The “Incredible” John Kerry: Ineffectiveness and Inconsistency
Dec 8, 2016Yousef Munayyer
It was painful to watch. Secretary of State John Kerry trying to explain and defend American foreign policy in the Middle East is such an uncomfortable sight. …
Policy Analysis
Colombia Peace Talks: Lessons for Palestine Policy
Oct 13, 2016Yousef Munayyer
After four years of painstaking negotiations, the 52-year war in Colombia between the government and rebels looked like it was coming to an end. Then, in one d…
Policy Analysis
New US-Israeli Military Aid Package Reflects Shifts in Relationship
Sep 15, 2016Yousef Munayyer
On September 14, 2016 the United States and Israel signed a new 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on military aid, which replaces a previous MOU set to…
Policy Analysis
The Week that Cut Turkey’s Ambitions Down to Size
Jul 7, 2016Yousef Munayyer
Although signs of policy adjustment have been in the works for several months, the events of June 2016 were an emphatic marker of a shift in Turkey’s foreign p…
Policy Analysis
Assessing the Potential Impact of the Paris Peace Conference: Vive la France or Forget Paris?
Jun 4, 2016Yousef Munayyer
One hundred years after the Sykes-Picot agreement, international stakeholders met in Paris on June 3 to discuss the outlines of an Israeli-Palestinian peace pl…
Policy Analysis
Lessons of Israel’s Political Shuffle
May 20, 2016Yousef Munayyer
The latest political move by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is significant on many fronts. Yesterday the news was reported that Netanyahu had offere…
Policy Analysis
Navigating Pitfalls and Opportunities: Obama’s Parting Shot on Israel/Palestine
May 17, 2016Yousef Munayyer
President Obama, who gave his first interview to Al-Arabiya in 2009 and spoke again few months later in his Cairo address about Palestinian aspirations, …
Policy Analysis
The Paris Initiative and US Middle East Policy: Paving the Way for the 4th Intifada – Why justice is the only roadmap to peace
May 16, 2016Tamara Kharroub
In the middle of the US presidential election season, France has elected to take the opportunity and break the US monopoly over the Middle East peace pro…
Policy Analysis
The Coming Change in US-Israel Relations
May 10, 2016Yousef Munayyer
The discussion on Israel at the most recent Democratic presidential debate is but the latest benchmark in progress down a road on which the American people hav…
Policy Analysis
The Dynamics of Israeli Settler Terrorism and US Options
Sep 15, 2015Yousef Munayyer
IntroductionOn July 31, 2015, Palestinian homes in the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank were set on fire at night by masked assailants who left behind…

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