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.
The fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act shifts U.S. military cooperation with Israel to a postwar focus, including support for neighbors facing Iranian proxies and a response to military embargoes of Israel.
Cinco historiadores árabes y no árabes detallan la constante desintegración de la sociedad árabe palestina entre 1945 y 1949, citando divisiones sociales internas, empobrecimiento económico, miedo, endeudamiento y disfunción política.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio explains the urgent need to establish the Board of Peace and the International Stabilization Force for Gaza to move from Phase 1 to Phase 2 in the ceasefire, but he also warns that the work likely will last longer than the Trump administration.
Failing to account for the effects on his re-election hopes, President Jimmy Carter for the second of three times in 1980 lets the U.N. Security Council enact a resolution criticizing Israeli behavior beyond the Green Line.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat issues a declaration with five American Jewish leaders in an effort to meet U.S. conditions for dialogue and thus strengthen his position as the leader of the Palestinian national movement.
In an unprecedented presidential political gamble, President Carter meets Prime Minister Begin and then President Sadat to tie up loose ends for an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, signed two weeks later. During the trip, he delivers the first Knesset address by a U.S. president.
Chancellor Merz’s visit coincides with Germany signing the largest Israeli military arms export agreement, covering the Arrow 3, and his support of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Netanyahu recalls centuries of efforts to annihilate Jews, including those in Germany and by Hamas, and says Israel will not give up military control of West Bank land.
These 14 Zionist posters about the festival of Hanukkah work with CIE’s “Israel: A Curriculum for Grades 2-7.” Download the posters at the following links:
El Departamento de Defensa de EE. UU. anunció en la última semana del primer gobierno de Trump que trasladó a Israel del área de responsabilidad del Comando Europeo de EE. UU. al Área de Responsabilidad (AOR) del Comando Central de EE. UU., que ya abarcaba Egipto, todos los estados árabes del suroeste asiático, Irán y todos los países del bloque, desde Afganistán y Pakistán hasta Kazajistán. El breve anuncio del 15 de enero de 2021 atribuyó a los Acuerdos de Abraham de 2020 el allanamiento para una mejor cooperación regional, especialmente contra la amenaza compartida de Irán.
Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, December 6, 2025 Eric Alter and Nickolay Mladenov, “Not Final, but Forward: The Abraham Accords at a Crossroads,” The National Interest, November 4, 2025. Sagiv Asulin and Dan Diker, “700…
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אוקטובר 13, 2025 נאומו של ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו בכנסת לפני נאומו של הנשיא דונלד טראמפ, שעות לאחר שחרור 20 החטופים הישראלים האחרונים המוחזקים בעזה. מקור: https://www.youtube.com/live/Jh-NE0hQyk4?si=LlF–gILqfdfoK2m&t=6603 נאומו של ראש הממשלה נתניהו מסתיים בשעה 2:19:00….
