List of Palestine articles
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President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Dec. 6. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Administration Blindsided Palestinian Leaders on Jerusalem Designation
U.S. officials failed to mention the impending recognition of the holy city as Israel's capital just days before Trump's announcement.
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President Donald Trump holds up a proclaimation that the U.S. government will formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Dec. 6, at the White House. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem Is Not a Disaster
But the Trump administration needs to walk a very fine line with Palestine and Arab states.
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A giant US flag screened alongside Israel's national flag by the Jerusalem municipality on the walls of the old city on Dec. 6. (AFP photo / Ahmad Gharabali) Trump Just Sabotaged His Own Peace Process
The president has ended any hope that the United States can broker a diplomatic solution in the Holy Land.
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The Israeli flag flies in front of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem on Dec. 1, 2017. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images) Will the U.S. Embassy’s Move to Jerusalem Matter?
Israel currently sits athwart two countervailing strategic trends.
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The Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on November 27, 2014. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Trump to Announce Recognition of Jerusalem
The administration risks riling the region to fulfill a campaign promise.
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Delegates attend a session of United Nations Human Rights Council on June 6, in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) How Not to Fix the U.N. Human Rights Council
The Trump administration wants reform. But putting Israel above all other priorities is a big mistake.
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The U.S. embassy building in Tel Aviv on Dec. 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images) How to Move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
And what it means, legally, if Trump does.
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Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad (right) and Saleh al-Aruri (left) of Hamas shake hands after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo on Oct. 12. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images) Can Anyone End the Palestinian Civil War?
A new agreement aims to mend the rift between Fatah and Hamas — but the wounds may run too deep.
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Carl Jung. (Wikimedia Commons) Edgar on Strategy (VI): Speaking of Israel and Palestine, it’s time to consider social strategies and technical solutions
As a strategic planner in the Israel Defense Forces specializing in the Palestinian arena, I was privileged to play a role in the 2013 Israeli-Palestinian security dialogue, conducted by General John R. Allen.
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The Palestinian Rehabilitation Committee raised the UNESCO flag next to the national Palestinian flag in front of Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque or the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the southern West Bank city's old quarter on December 13, 2011, as the Palestinian flag was hoisted at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, a month after the Palestinians' admission to the UN cultural agency sparked anger and reprisals from the United States and Israel. AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images) Israel to Withdraw from UNESCO, Following United States
Tensions have built since the U.N. agency recognized Palestine in 2011.
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BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 26: Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) with Secretary General Interpol Jurgen Stock (Center-R) and Meng Hongwei (Center-L), president of Interpol pose for a group photo before the 86th INTERPOL General Assembly at Beijing National Convention Center on September 26, 2017 in Beijing, China. The General Assembly, themed 'Connecting Police for a Safer World', will take place in Beijing from September 26-29. (Photo by Lintao Zhang - Pool/Getty Images) Palestine Just Joined Interpol. Is That Bad for Israel?
It’s easy to abuse Interpol’s red notice system. That doesn’t mean Palestine will.
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US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the podium at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) Mea Culpa: I Said Trump and Bibi Would Blow Up
But eight months in, the U.S. president is still playing nice with Israel — thanks to a moribund peace process.
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PHOENIX, AZ - AUGUST 22: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at the Phoenix Convention Center during a rally on August 22, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. An earlier statement by the president that he was considering a pardon for Joe Arpaio,, the former sheriff of Maricopa County who was convicted of criminal contempt of court for defying a court order in a case involving racial profiling, has angered Latinos and immigrant rights advocates. (Photo by Ralph Freso/Getty Images) What Trump Got Right About Foreign Policy
(And screwed up anyway.)
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) participate in a joint news conference at the East Room of the White House February 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu for talks for the first time since Trump took office on January 20. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) U.S Vows to Fund a U.N. Agency For Palestinian Refugees Israeli Leader Wants Shuttered
The Trump administration defies Bibi in hopes of restarting peace talks and averting upheaval.
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 23: (ISRAEL OUT) US President Donald Trump (L) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave after delivering a speech during a visit to the Israel Museum on May 23, 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel. U.S. President Donald Trump spend his second and final day visited Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, then visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and delivering an address at the Israel Museum, both in Jerusalem, before departing for the Vatican. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images) Is Trump’s Middle East Peace Effort Dead in the Water?
Whatever faint hopes there were of a breakthrough in the Israel-Palestine conflict are beyond reach right now.
