Evaluating the 2023-2025 Hamas-Israel War and Its Consequences (video, 44:06)CIE+
CIE President Ken Stein briefly reviews the 2023-2025 Hamas-Israel war and examines the short- and long-term consequences.
CIE President Ken Stein briefly reviews the 2023-2025 Hamas-Israel war and examines the short- and long-term consequences.
Using published archives, press conferences, speeches and numerous interviews, this compilation of quotations traces how official American views on Zionism and Israel have evolved over a century.
In the waning days of the Reagan administration, Secretary of State George Shultz pushes for U.S.-mediated peace negotiations, including Palestinians, and offers the outlines for a resolution to the conflict.
The following scholars, academics, think-tank leaders and offer their high praise for the CIE website, israeled.org. “The CIE website is an indispensable and unique resource for anyone interested in Israel and the Middle East. Balanced…
8 de febrero de 2026 Ken Stein, Centro para la Educación en Israel Theodor Herzl no fue el primer judío en imaginar un retorno a la soberanía judía, pero transformó la esperanza eterna del retorno…
Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, February 8, 2026 Hussain Abdul-Hussain, “Why Is Saudi Arabia Abandoning Peace?” The National Interest, January 23, 2026. Oded Ailam, “‘The Glass Wall’: How Israel Turned Intelligence Into an Insurance Policy…
Nine questions guide key understandings about Theodor Herzl’s “The Jewish State.”
Israel is competing in bobsled, alpine and cross-country skiing, skeleton, and figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy.
Durante más de un siglo, los líderes árabes y musulmanes han expresado odio hacia los judíos, el sionismo e Israel, aunque algunos también han señalado internamente los fracasos del movimiento nacional árabe palestino.
While the Palestinian official leading the technocratic Gaza administration promises to open the Rafah Crossing and the Bulgarian high commissioner for Gaza urges the world to focus on the big picture, U.S. envoy Jared Kushner lays out a vision for Gaza as a rapid, phased real estate redevelopment.
La visita del canciller Merz coincide con la firma por Alemania del mayor acuerdo de exportación de armas militares israelíes, que abarca el Arrow 3, y su apoyo a una solución de dos Estados para el conflicto palestino-israelí. Netanyahu recuerda siglos de esfuerzos para aniquilar a los judíos, incluyendo los de Alemania y los de Hamás, y afirma que Israel no cederá el control militar de Cisjordania.
El 17 de noviembre de 2025, el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU votó por 13 a 0 a favor de la Resolución 2803, que respalda el plan de paz de 20 puntos de Trump para poner fin a la guerra entre Hamás e Israel. Esta resolución, que sienta precedente, ofrece una vía hacia la estabilidad en la Franja de Gaza y una oportunidad para reducir la violencia en la relación palestino-israelí.
Donald Trump da una vuelta de la victoria y expone visiones a corto y largo plazo para Gaza, Israel y Medio Oriente mientras se convierte en el cuarto presidente estadounidense en dirigirse a la Knesset.
Conmocionada por la gravedad de la guerra de Gaza y la inacción en un proceso de negociación palestino-israelí, la ONU ofrece una hoja de ruta diplomática para poner fin a la guerra e iniciar las negociaciones. Liderada por Francia y Arabia Saudita, la declaración afirma la primacía de la Autoridad Palestina como representante político legítimo palestino, aborda la posible reforma del gobierno palestino, busca fortalecer un Estado palestino soberano y económicamente viable que conviva con Israel en condiciones de seguridad, y contiene otras vagas promesas de la Autoridad Palestina. Israel y Estados Unidos rechazan la Declaración. El gobierno israelí se niega a que terceros determinen las líneas generales o el ritmo de las negociaciones con ningún país, ya que las negociaciones afectan la seguridad israelí actual y futura.
A Zionist delegation to the Paris Peace Conference makes an effective, largely successful case for the League of Nations to incorporate a future Jewish national home into the British Mandate for Palestine.
The Trump administration’s proposed charter for the Board of Peace, the body the United Nations has charged with overseeing the Gaza ceasefire, does not mention Gaza or any other specific location of operation but does grant its chairman, Donald Trump, extensive control over its mission and operations.
Three years after the Israeli government began the process to overhaul the judiciary, and after two years of war delayed efforts, the drive to rein in judicial independence continues.
Former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak makes the case against the Netanyahu government’s efforts to overhaul the judiciary, arguing that Israeli democracy requires judicial independence and protection for minority rights.
Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit warns about the danger to the Israeli public and democracy of sustained political attacks on the judiciary and individual judges.
Updated January 5, 2026; originally posted October 2023. By Ken Stein Hamas’ Origins The 1988 Hamas Charter and remarks by its leaders and other publications express hatred of Zionism, Israel and Jews. It is thus unmistakable that Hamas…
January 2, 2026 A week of unrest in Iran does not guarantee a revolution even if 85-plus million Iranians are angry at the country’s autocratic, theological rulers. Iran is a security-clerical oligarchy where kleptocracy, cronyism…
Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, December 31, 2025 Yousef Algoos, “MBS in Washington: A new era of strategic tech-alliance,” Al-Arabiya, December 14, 2025. Thomas Albery, “A Crisis of crises: What is going on in Iran?”…
In their fifth U.S. meeting of 2025, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu show unity on Gaza, Hamas, Iran and their mutual appreciation for each other but offer glimpses of differences on Turkey, Syria and the West Bank.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III brings a realistic and prescient vision of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations and U.S. mediation to AIPAC early in the George H.W. Bush presidency.