israel & palestine - old roads, new maps: all articles

Intimate enemies, embittered neighbours, violent antagonists. But does it have to be this way? Tony Klug invites some thoughtful responses to his proposal for an International Protectorate as the way to a durable settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.

Tuesday 22nd September

Psychoactive and Operation Cast Lead

Lirona Rosenthal, Maya Mukamel, Tova Buksbaum, and Uri Hadar, 22 September 2009

During the attack on Gaza, Israeli mental health professionals could be trapped between Israeli identification with government policy, and Palestinian citizens of Israel, then considered ‘the enemy’

Thursday 3rd September

On the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state: can the Palestinians seize the initiative?

Ahmed Badawi, 3 September 2009

Time to offer recognition of a Jewish state, but with conditions

Wednesday 26th August

Israeli settlements and “ethnic cleansing”

Martin Shaw, 26 August 2009

A case against the dismantling of Israel's West Bank communities has surprising consequences

Tuesday 18th August

Israel-Palestine: solving the refugee question

David Gardner, 18 August 2009

A durable peace needs to solve the Palestinian refugee problem. It can be done. Here's how

Monday 17th August

The Hizbollah project: last war, next war

Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, 17 August 2009

How Lebanon's "resistance" movement is preparing for the next and decisive war with Israel

Wednesday 29th July

Israel-Palestine: a man, a plan, and an outcome

Tony Klug, 29 July 2009

Barack Obama could yet unlock the toughest conflict, if he embraces a clear and decisive strategy

Tuesday 28th July

Israeli settlement, Arab movement

Hazem Saghieh, 28 July 2009

The issue of Israel’s West Bank colonies must not be subsumed by the larger Israel-Palestinian conflict

Monday 27th July

Iran, the Arabs and Israel: the domino-effect

Akiva Eldar, 27 July 2009

The Iran factor creates a new dynamic towards Arab-Israel normalisation - if Israel's premier allows

Tuesday 7th July

Israel’s path: from occupation to peace

Gershon Baskin, 7 July 2009

Israel must renew existing peace-process commitments if it is to avoid international isolation

Monday 15th June

Binyamin Netanyahu’s mirage

Akiva Eldar, 15 June 2009

Israel's prime minister is more concerned to appease his right-wing than engage with Palestinians

Friday 29th May

"Comrades, your enemy is yourselves!"

Mats Svensson, 29 May 2009

Scene one. The day that Yvette Myakayaka-Manzini, vice president of the ANC women's department, took her account of the struggle against apartheid to Gaza. Scene two on an Israeli beach...

Monday 25th May