Middle East Policy articles

Recent articles from Middle East Policy

Can the two-state solution be salvaged?(Symposium: Can the Two-State Solution be Salvaged?)
March 22, 2009... The following is an edited transcript of the fifty-fifth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council The meeting was held on Friday, January 16, 2009, with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., presiding. CHAS W. FREEMAN, JR.: president, Middle East Policy Council...

The Arab peace initiative: an assessment.
March 22, 2009... In the second half of the 2000s, several unprecedented developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict have highlighted the potential of a dramatic alteration of the Middle East's strategic landscape. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has sponsored a world conference on dialogue among various faiths...

Gaza, Israel, Hamas and the lost calm of operation cast lead.
March 22, 2009... A shadow has fallen over the new years of 1430 and 2009 from Israel's air assault and ground invasion of Gaza, Operation Cast Lead. Not that any aspect of the Palestinian experience has been easy or well communicated to the global public, but it does seem that post-9/11 Western discourse on...

Negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough.
March 22, 2009... During more than four decades of occupation, Israeli-Palestinian relations have been replete with intense violence, mutual recrimination and revenge, bringing the two sides on more than one occasion close to the brink of all-out war. Oddly enough, these years have also been characterized by...

Talking with a region: lessons from Iran, Turkey and Pakistan.
March 22, 2009... The headline-grabbing foreign-policy initiative of Obama's election campaign was that his administration would talk to Tehran "without preconditions." The idea that American diplomacy in the Middle East needs renewal is evident, and the Obama presidency has brought with it hopes that a new...