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About Yossi Alpher

Yossi Alpher is co-editor of the bitterlemons family of internet publications. He is a former senior adviser to Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak.

Articles by Yossi Alpher

Wednesday 5th March

Kosovo and Palestine

Yossi Alpher, 5 March 2008
Kosovo’s unfinished business has lessons for the Palestinians’ national struggle too
Tuesday 29th January

Gaza’s agency, Israel’s choice

Yossi Alpher, 29 January 2008
A Palestinian show of strength on the Gaza-Egypt border could result in a new Israeli invasion
Monday 18th June

Israel-West Bank-Gaza: the future

Yossi Alpher, 18 June 2007
Hamas’s victory in Gaza has drawn new political lines of division across the region. What now?
Tuesday 27th March

Riyadh's Arab summit: a precious opportunity

Yossi Alpher, 27 March 2007
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.
Wednesday 28th May

Two separate roadmaps: an Israeli view

Yossi Alpher, 28 May 2003
The flaws of the earlier Israel-Palestine peace process – ambiguity, phasing, lack of trust – consigned it to failure. The chances of its successor, the current ‘roadmap’, would benefit from a realistic appraisal that provides room for each side to move away from violence, restore peaceful relations – and, with international help, find that their paths converge.
Wednesday 8th May

An international solution?

Yossi Alpher and Ghassan Khatib, 8 May 2002
The conflict is about more than violence: it is a slow decolonisation. International involvement is crucial and welcome - but will domestic politics get in the way?
Wednesday 10th April

The view from two analysts - one Israeli, one Palestinian

Yossi Alpher, 10 April 2002
Israeli Yossi Alpher and Palestinian Ghassan Khatib have each played a part in their nations’ politics. Now Alpher runs the NGO Political Security Domain and Khatib heads up the Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre. Together they run Bitterlemons, a website dedicated to better understanding of the Middle East situation. Here they give their very different views.
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