As the question of European boycotts of Israel come to the fore, Haaretz's diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid takes a look at what geopolitical isolation could mean for Israeli companies, citing Molad's recent report analyzing Israel's standing in the world.

Gen (res) Nati Sharoni writes about the falsehood of Naftali Bennett's outdated argument that the Jordan Valley is strategically necessary for Israel — Bennett and his party, says Sharoni, wants to “prevent a political agreement with the Palestinians and the evacuation of the settlements at any cost”. His argument to retain full control over the Jordan […]

Molad analyst Elisheva Goldberg highlights deal struck by Naftali Bennett and Benjamin Netanyahu before negotiations were announced in July— that new settlement expansion would be the price of each prisoner release. When Secretary Kerry acquiesced he became knowingly party to a negotiations deal that actively moves away from a future Palestinian state.

Jonathan Cohen takes a look at the decade-old Center for American Progress, discussing its blend policy and politics, its institutional leverage, what it's done for American progressives. 

Anver Inbar and Assaf Sharon of Molad penned a response to UPenn's Ian Lustick's talked-about New York Times op-ed, “Two-State Illusion“. Now, Professor Lustick responds at length, clarifying that he was not arguing for a one-state solution, but for a re-thinking of the entrenched two-state paradigm. 

Trita Parsi argues in Foreign Affairs that Iran’s position on Israel is far more likely to change in the direction Israel desires if U.S.-Iranian relations improve and the first tangible steps are taken to rehabilitate Iran into the region’s political and economic structures.

Gabriel Mitchell explains the Mavi Marmara and the lesser-known Jussiyeh incident of 1982. He argues that Israel and Turkey's disagreements in both cases divide between public and private approaches to foreign policy and demonstrate how disagreements can be “disaggregated” from larger relationships under heated circumstances.

The American Jewish community, says Peter Beinart, is woefully oblivious to Palestinian life. They do not hear their stories, they do not go to their villages, and they do not understand their motivations. In his most recent New York Review of Books piece, Beinart describes how this perspective is extended to Congress people, and how […]

In the wake of the regime's use of chemical weapons freelance writer Joshua Foust takes on a number of pieces of conventional wisdom regarding potential US involvement in Syria for the blog “War is Boring”. Foust demonstrates why much of what we believe about a strike on Syria should be challenged.

Daniel Byman and Khaled Elgind exhaustively outline the history of lawlessness and current issues surrounding the Sinai. Their recommendations to the US include encouraging Israel to explore options with Hamas that fall short of an all-out deal and an eventual policy that supports Egyptian development initiatives in the Sinai.

Former CENTCOM chief Gen. James Mattis commented that he “paid a military security price every day as a commander of CENTCOM because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel,” Matt Duss reports at the Center for American Progress's ThinkProgress blog.