Recommended Readings

Ha'aretz: "The narrow strategic thinking of pro-Ahmadinejad Israelis"

June 17, 2009—The prize for this week's most stupid remark has to go to the officials, officers and experts who described Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the candidate Israel prefers to win the [+]

Washington Post: "The Settlements Facts" by Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer

June 14, 2009—Faulty analysis of the Israeli settlement issue is being passed off as fact. Charles Krauthammer's June 5 column, "The Settlements Myth," is one example. [+]

JTA Blog: "Reform rabbis back Obama on settlements"

June 10, 2009—The president's demand for a stop to all settement activity in Israel is "in the best interest of the United States, of the State of Israel, and of peace." [+]

Ha'aretz: "U.S. may propose immediate talks on West Bank borders" & Washington Post: "Clinton Rejects Israeli Claims of Accord on Settlements"

June 6, 2009—Senior U.S. officials, including special Mideast envoy George Mitchell, say they might propose immediate talks on setting the West Bank's borders, in view of Israel's opposition to a freeze on [+]

Carnegie Endowment: "The Green Elephant in the Room: Dealing with the Hamas Party-State in Gaza"

June 3, 2009—The Obama administration is caught in a series of binds it has not yet acknowledged: its efforts will ultimately founder unless it finds a formula that deals with Hamas [+]

NY Times: "U.S. Weighs Tactics on Israeli Settlement"

June 1, 2009—As President Obama prepares to head to the Middle East this week, administration officials are debating how to toughen their stance against any expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. [+]