Current Analysis The Cold Realities of US Policy in Israel-Palestine During the summertime war in Gaza, the two most progressive members of the US Senate stirred up controversy among their backers with expressions of uncritical support for Israel. At a town hall meeting, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the lone Senate independent, responded to a questioner that Israel had Mitchell Plitnick • 15 min read
Current Analysis Solidaridad con Gaza, La Segunda Parte Latin American solidarity movements with Palestine are starting to win important political battles. Cecilia Baeza • 3 min read
Current Analysis Covering the Coverage Three weeks into Israel’s military campaign against Gaza, media and observers are turning the lens inward on the coverage itself. NBC was the focus of the conversation after the network recalled its correspondent in Gaza, Ayman Mohyeldin, shortly after he filed a powerful report on the killing of fo Bayann Hamid • 4 min read
Current Analysis Beneath the Gray Lady’s Flak Jacket The New York Times is the most prestigious of the prestige press in the United States. The famed “gray lady” is the newspaper of record, a citadel of objectivity, it is said, where the first draft of history is crafted. It sets the agenda for other newspapers, for the broadcast news programs and eve William Lafi Youmans • 7 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Summer 2014) Targeted killings. Ground operations. No option off the table. Once again, Israel is using the technocratic vocabulary of twenty-first-century warfare to obscure its colonization of Palestine, and, once again, the Western media is collaborating in the grand deception. It was predictable, sadly, tha The Editors • 3 min read
Current Analysis Indyk vs. Indyk Israelis and Palestinians share responsibility for the collapse of Middle East peace talks. That was the message delivered on Thursday [http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/other/IndykSpeechtoTWI20130508.pdf] by US special envoy to the peace process Martin Indyk, in a speech to the W (Author not identified) • 3 min read
Current Analysis Washington Gets “Less Crazy” Yesterday the New America Foundation (NAF), a center-left think tank located one block north of big, bad K Street, hosted a discussion [http://www.newamerica.org/events/2014/citizen_strangers] about the 1948 war, the expulsion of Palestinians from what would become Israel, the new state’s imposition Chris Toensing • 4 min read
Current Analysis Using and Abusing Memory A firestorm broke out unexpectedly on my Facebook feed yesterday morning. Shira Robinson • 4 min read
Current Analysis Six Questions for Mouin Rabbani Yesterday in Gaza representatives of Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization announced a blueprint for talks about forming a government of national consensus (Arabic text here [http://www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=692256]). Hamas and the PLO’s dominant Fatah faction have been at l The Editors • 8 min read
Current Analysis Three Updates on Palestinian Political Prisoners Update 1 on prisoners and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from the halls of the State Department: Last week, the United States considered releasing Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of espionage on behalf of Israel, in exchange for Israel doing, as political analyst Yousef Munayyer put it, “ Amahl Bishara • 4 min read
Current Analysis Analyze This In her column on the Haaretz website yesterday, Carleton University political scientist Mira Sucharov bemoaned the tendency [http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/the-fifth-question/.premium-1.577688 ] of “some of the cleverest minds on Israel and Palestine” to “devolve” into Manichean thinking about Israel Shira Robinson • 2 min read
Current Analysis Our Primer on Israel-Palestine Some 43 years ago, a group of activists in the movement to end the war in Vietnam founded the Middle East Research and Information Project. The impetus was that the American public, including the anti-war left, was poorly informed about the Middle East and the US role [https://www.jacobinmag.com/20 The Editors • 2 min read
