Gaza

How Israel Lost its Way

by Alon Ben-Meir

After Israel has raised several generations as warriors and occupiers, has the nation lost sight of the toll on its own youth and the consequences for peace? 

This is a War Israel Can’t Win

by Max Boot

Post columnist Max Boot argues that the current cycle of attacks and reprisals are symbolic political gestures, and that Israel should declare that it's made its point and resume the work of political normalization with its Arab neighbors and political concessions with the Palestinian Authority that marginalize Hamas.

The history of Gaza in 2 minutes

Find out why this small strip of land has been through so many conflicts and political upheavals since the end of World War II.

History Department at Connecticut College deplores Facebook post on Palestinians

by HNN Editor

The department condemns a post in which a philosophy professor referred to Hamas as “a rabid pit bull chained in a cage.”

The Great Game in the Holy Land

by Michael Schwartz

How Gazan Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of An International Power Struggle

Israel, Academics and One-Sided Debates

by Steven Hochstadt

"I despair of ever seeing peace come to the one place where Jews are not a minority."

How Netanyahu Committed Political Suicide

by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

Prime Minster Netanyahu’s insistence on passing a bill that will define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is as disgraceful as his denial that Israel is not an occupying power.

3rd Possibility: Coming Civil War in West Bank/ Jerusalem?

by Juan Cole

Observers of the evolution of the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians have long argued that there are only two likely outcomes of the alternating violence and diplomacy between the two sides that has gone on nearly 70 years now.

Kent State's Julio Pino goes after colleagues at a journal who urged him to apologize for remarks he made about Israel

by Julio Cesar Pino

"I say most of you study Latin America for the same reason Eichmann learned Hebrew."

Gaza: How We Got Here ... And the Prospects for Peace

by William R. Polk

We would be prudent to prepare for more and worse Gazas.

Must Muslim Americans Condemn ISIL? Must Turkish Jews Condemn Gaza War?

by Juan Cole

It is like forcing all Russian-Americans to say publicly what they think about Vladimir Putin.

Gaza: How We Got Here ... The Struggle for Palestine (1947-1973)

by William R. Polk

A masterful account of the history of the Middle East crisis that has dominated headlines for decades. 

The Jews and the importance of history

by Michael Gerson

"History matters, or at least it should. Detached from its story, Israel is a quarrelsome, flawed democracy on the edge of the Mediterranean. But Israel is its story."

Daniel Pipes says in interview that the absence of anti-Israel protests in Muslim countries is highly significant

"I don't know of a single Jewish Israeli who wants the warfare to go on!"

Now that the Guns in Gaza Have Been Silenced, a Moment for Peace Has Arrived. Seriously.

by Alon Ben-Meir

"I am happy to be accused of having pipedreams time and again. But it is unforgivable to let over 2,100 Palestinians (including nearly 500 children) and 69 Israelis die in vain."

Middle East Scholars and Librarians Call for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions

"We, the undersigned scholars and librarians working on the Middle East, hold that silence about the latest humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s new military assault on the Gaza Strip – the third and most devastating in six years –constitutes complicity."

Martin Kramer says Columbia University professors claim Israelis are the new Nazis

"Based in the claim that Israel now behaves toward the Palestinians as Nazi Germany behaved toward the Jews, it originated in post-World War II Soviet propaganda, and from there spread to the Soviets’ Arab clients.”

A pro-Hamas Left emerges among historians, complains Jeffrey Herf

by Jeffrey Herf

In the pursuit of political goals and an anti-Israel message, Historians Against the War has abandoned the standards of its profession and adopted a stance that objectively supports Hamas’s war aims.

Ilan Pappé praised in Iran as a "prominent anti-Zionist Israeli historian and intellectual"

Zionism has reduced Judaism "into a narrow minded ethno-nationalism that depended on the success of a colonialist project."

The "Historians" Confront Israel

by Robert "KC" Johnson

Historians have signed a petition blasting Israel.  The scholars’ letter went out of its way to affirm that the signatories were speaking as historians, not simply as citizens. This is infuriating.