Palestinians

Mark Lavie

Ben-Gvir on the Temple Mount? No big deal

Allow me to offer advice that many men give their overwrought wives: “Calm down, honey.”

Mark Lavie

Abbas can't harm peace moves

So disgust, outrage, and revulsion. What no one is expressing is surprise.

Mark Lavie

A dam good way to resolve a conflict

So is this a new way of dealing with international disputes? Complain, denounce, threaten—and leave it at that?

Mark Lavie

“Palestinian Spring”? Not such a good deal

It took me a whole book to explain what went wrong (“Broken Spring,” Gefen, 2014), but the parallels with the Palestinians are striking.

Mark Lavie

Nothing has changed

This problem,,,may not have a solution, Nothing Israel can do, or would be permitted to do, would stop the barrages for long.

Mark Lavie

A “new Middle East” you didn’t see coming

Frustrated by decades of Palestinian obstinacy, moderate Arab nations were finally moving to put the Israeli-Palestinian issue behind them.

Mark Lavie

Join my February book/lecture tour!

"Yet Israelis keep voting on security, the the real issues are domestic, including relations with Diaspora Jews."

Mark Lavie

First read the US statement. Then we'll talk.

"In other words, both the apoplectic left and the ecstatic right have it wrong."