Yossi Alpher is co-editor of the bitterlemons family of internet publications. He is former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and a former senior adviser to Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak.

Recent articles

Kosovo’s unfinished business has lessons for the Palestinians’ national struggle too, says Yossi Alpher.

Palestinian popular power on the Gaza-Egypt border faces Israel with strategic problems that may end in a new invasion, says Yossi Alpher.

Hamas’s victory in Gaza has drawn new political lines of division across the region. What now? Yossi Alpher considers two options.

It has taken forty years for Israelis to realise that the damage to them of occupation far outweighs any benefits, says Yossi Alpher.

The Arab League summit of 28-29 March in Saudi Arabia's capital should build on and go beyond earlier efforts towards peace with Israel, says Yossi Alpher.