An innovative Israeli-Palestinian collaboration offering regular analysis of middle-east affairs is ending regular publication after eleven years. Its co-editors, Yossi Alpher and Ghassan Khatib, explain why.
A combination of political changes and shifts in attitude are making the possibility of a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine increasingly remote, says Ghassan Khatib.
The Palestinians' current political impasse offers them only difficult choices, says Ghassan Khatib.
The ground offensive that Israel started in the beginning of the second week of its war against the Palestinian people in Gaza was expected and, once the air operation had
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is in essence political. It started as a result of where Israel was established and how Palestinians were consequently forced from their homeland in 1948. The conflict
By taking over Gaza by force, Hamas has successfully completed the process that Israel started of separating the Gaza strip from the West Bank.
Ghassan Khatib is co-editor of the
It has now been forty years since the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza started, and it seems as if it happened yesterday. In all
The Arab League summit convening in Riyadh on 28-29 March 2007 comes at a time of growing concern over the absence of regional order, the minimal level of Arab unity
Putting peace and independence on the table
Ghassan Khatib
The current violence, however terrible, belongs to the surface. The underlying reality of the conflict is decolonisation.
Israelis and Palestinians have
When Osama Bin Laden put the Palestinian cause at the core of the speech he delivered to the world, released immediately after the outbreak of American and British hostilities against
