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Dec 12, 20211 min read
New Israeli Government's Scorecard for Peace: Poor
Commentary, Read at Century International (The Century Foundation), Dec. 8, 2021
Aug 29, 20211 min read
President Biden: Don't fall for the Israeli-Palestinian economic peace fallacy
Read at Newsweek, Aug. 30, 2021
Aug 26, 20211 min read
Will the EU be a pawn in the pro-Israel incitement game?
Read at Euractive, Sept. 28, 2021
Jul 21, 20211 min read
Why Israel is more concerned with Ben & Jerry's than the Pegasus revelations
Read at The Guardian, July 22, 2021.
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Why did Israel's judiciary become an enemy of the people?
Read at The New Republic, July 20, 2021.
Jul 6, 20211 min read
The Assault on Israel's Judiciary
Report: Read at Century International (The Century Foundation), July 8, 2021.
Jun 7, 20211 min read
The First Job for Israel’s New Government: Clean Up Bibi’s Mess
Read at New York Times, June 3, 2021
May 24, 20211 min read
Israel is falling apart, because the conflict controls us
Read at New York Times, 20 May, 2021
May 15, 20211 min read
Why did Israel's Jews & Arabs rise up against each other?
Read at the Observer/Guardian, 16 May 2021
May 9, 20211 min read
Critics say it's apartheid. Do Israelis and Palestinians think it is?
Read at Washington Post, 8 May, 2021
May 6, 20211 min read
The far-right will dominate Israel's future
Read at Time Magazine, 21 May 2021
May 6, 20211 min read
For years, Israel's leaders have cultivated ethnic hatred. This one's on them.
Read at Newsweek, 13 May, 2021
Apr 11, 20211 min read
The ICC's Israel investigation and the ICTY: When local politics hijacks international justice
April 12, 2021, with Garentina Kraja. Read at Foreign Policy.
Mar 20, 20211 min read
It’s not Netanyahu, stupid: what this Israeli election Is really about
March 21, 2021. Read at Haaretz.
Mar 17, 20211 min read
What's next for U.S.-Israel relations? We just got a clue
March 18, 2021. Read at Newsweek
Mar 8, 20211 min read
Polling Israel: A Family Affair
What the history of survey research reveals about Israel, and about polls themselves. Read in The Tel Aviv Review of Books. March 1, 2021.
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Don’t Back Down with Israel
Contribution to The Century Foundation Roundtable: Biden's Chance to Avoid Old Wars & New Pitfalls in the Middle East. March 3, 2021.
Jan 20, 20211 min read
The Trump-taunting Lincoln Project Is Coming to Israel. But Not as Liberal Saviors
Read at Haaretz, January 21, 2021.
Dec 6, 20201 min read
"I'm considered a traitor"- US voters who went rogue to oust Trump
Read at The Forward, Dec. 7, 2020
Dec 1, 20201 min read
Israel Prepares to Confront the Biden Administration
Read at The Century Foundation, Dec. 2, 2020.
Nov 7, 20201 min read
Trump Lost. Biden Won. Now stop persecuting the pollsters.
Read at Haaretz, Nov. 7, 2020.
Nov 2, 20201 min read
Even if Trump loses, his cruelty, lies & bullying will haunt America
Read at The Forward, Nov. 3, 2020
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Changing Tides in Divided Cyprus
By Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Policy Magazine, Oct. 30, 2020.
Jun 30, 20201 min read
Israel's Annexation Excuses are All Factually, Legally and Logically Wrong
Co-authored with Dr. Limor Yehuda, read at Newsweek. 30 June 2020.
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Neither intractable nor unique: A practical solution for Palestinian right of return
April 28, 2020. Read full report, at The Century Foundation
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Israelis, drop your denial and recognize the Nakba
May 21, 2020. Read here at +972 Magazine.
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Israel quietly helped Gaza fight corona. Israelis approved.
May 11, 2020. Read more, at The Forward.
Mar 27, 20201 min read
Israel suspends two branches of government, in a battle over democracy with a long history
Israel's constituitional crisis, 20 March 2020 - Read at Middle East Institute
Mar 27, 20201 min read
A Netanyahu Victory Would Be Bad News for Peace and the Rule of Law
Analysis of Israeli election results, 5 March 2020 - click to read on Foreign Policy.
Feb 29, 20201 min read
How three elections exposed all the diseases ravaging Israeli democracy
Pre-election analysis of the damage inflicted by two failed elections of 2019 and the deteriorating status of law and the judiciary in...
Feb 29, 20201 min read
The confederation alternative for Israel and Palestine
This report for The Century Foundation proposes the main elements of a progressive foreign policy for Israel and Palestine, among them an...
Feb 29, 20201 min read
Has the Israeli right peaked?
Israeli society has moved heavily to the right over two decades, so why didn't the right-wing parties do better in the two elections of...
Feb 1, 20201 min read
Trump peace plan - a personal blow to peace
The plan is bad for Palestinians, bad for peace supporters, bad from the river to the sea. Read at The Jewish Daily Forward.
Feb 1, 20201 min read
Netanyahu, the eternal victim, tears up Israel's judiciary
Netanyahu argues that his indictment is proof of a deep state. Read at The Jewish Daily Forward.
Feb 1, 20201 min read
Israel's annexationist path: How will the international community respond? Look at other cases.
Comparative analysis to post-war cases of creeping, de facto, and declared annexation. Read at Mitvim: Israeli Institute for Regional...
Feb 1, 20201 min read
Netanyahu, indicted, takes Israel's institutions down with him
Read article at The Century Foundation, Dec. 4, 2019
Oct 15, 20191 min read
Sep 12, 20191 min read
Here’s what the Israeli public thinks about Netanyahu’s promise to annex parts of the West Bank
Click here to read at The Washington Post.
Sep 9, 20191 min read
Israel’s Many Elections, and Few Policy Paths
Click here to read at The Century Foundation.
Sep 5, 20191 min read
If voters won't get rid of Netanyahu, will the elites do it for them?
The same political system that Netanyahu thinks he has mastered could now bring about his demise. Click here to read at +972.
Jul 5, 20191 min read
What to Expect From Israel’s Election Re-Run
Can Netanyahu Unite the Right? Read at Foreign Affairs.
Jul 4, 20191 min read
The Dangerous Politics of Playing the Victim
The leaders of Israel and Serbia share one thing: They’ve perfected the politics of persecution. Here’s why that strategy won’t keep...
Jun 20, 20191 min read
The Juggernaut’s Achilles Heel
Click here to read at The Cairo Review of Global Affairs.
May 29, 20191 min read
The Logic behind Israel’s Democratic Erosion
Click here to read at The Century Foundation.
Apr 24, 20191 min read
The biggest myth about Israeli politics
It’s tempting to believe that non-politicians are the antidote to bad politicians, but it’s also wrong. Click here to read at +972.
Apr 12, 20191 min read
The Israeli opposition failed. Here's how it can redeem itself
Israel’s next coalition stands to be one of the most pro-annexationist parliaments in the history of the state. Now, it’s up to the...
Apr 4, 20191 min read
Poll: Jews, Arabs much less divided than Israeli politics lets on
A ‘Local Call’ poll shows a broad range of areas where Jews and Arabs see the benefits of cooperation. But that doesn’t mean Jewish...
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Why these Israeli elections actually matter
Netanyahu looms so large that he has become a symbol of everything that’s right and wrong with Israel. But behind the symbol stand two...
Mar 22, 20191 min read
In Israel's elections, only the far right is talking about democracy
A new campaign ad by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked signals that this time around, only the far right is talking about democratic norms —...
Mar 15, 20191 min read
What the candidates in Israel's elections say about the conflict
For a long time, politicians perpetuated the idea that Israel sought peace and a two-state solution, even while taking contradictory...
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