Communications

It is impossible to have a serious discussion about the IDF's exit strategy from Gaza without discussing Israel’s goals regarding the Palestinian question and the shaping of the region. Brig. Gen. (ret.) Shlomo Brom explains

U.S. President Donald Trump’s election and the start of his administration were received in Israel with almost general enthusiasm. Many in the Israeli right may be thinking ”at last we got rid of this liberal/leftist Barack Hussein Obama who criticized Israel and is probably an hidden anti-Semite. Now, we have a pro-Israeli President the does not give a damn about these...

Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict started as a high-priority issue on the Obama administration’s foreign-policy agenda almost eight years ago. A special envoy was appointed, and President Obama made a determined—albeit wrongly formulated—effort to deal with the Israeli settlements, which he perceived as a major obstacle. 

Since the second intifada, the last major Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s, the Israeli army has managed to largely dismantle the networks run by Hamas and other terrorist groups in Judea and Samaria, according to Shlomo Brom, a retired brigadier general and an analyst at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies think tank. "Basically the terror...

The United States was the dominant external actor in the Israeli-political process while the regional actors were less significant and reluctant. Recent developments indicate a change of role for these actors. The turbulence in the Middle East provides for a better atmosphere for Israeli-Arab cooperation. Israel and Arab governments face similar threats and have joint...

The situation in the Middle East today—where the current state order is being challenged by upheavals that began with the so-called Arab Spring and deteriorated into violence in and between several states—raises the question of whether this situation is conducive to the initiation of regional security dialogue as a means of helping to enhance security and restore...

The Iran agreement is a historic achievement that rallies the full weight of the major global powers to shut off Iran’s pathway to a nuclear weapon for ten years or more. Few votes in Congress will be as consequential as the one on the Iran nuclear agreement. This agreement represents the best chance to make sure Iran never obtains a weapon and the best chance for...

When President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Netanyahu in his first telephone call after the Israeli elections that Washington would “reassess” its positions on U.S.-Israeli relations and Middle East diplomacy after the Israeli prime minister took a position against Palestinian statehood during his reelection campaign, Obama reminded Israelis who follow the...

When Secretary Kerry’s anticipated failure to mediate an Israeli-Palestinian permanent status agreement resulted in a complete stalemate of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, it was clear it might have severe short and long-term repercussions.