By Martin Indyk There’s a very simple reason my team has been trying to blame Israel primarily for the recent breakdown of negotiations with the Palestinians: we can’t expect guilt to attach to Arabs, who are nonwhite and therefore not ...
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By Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch It’s time to lay all the cards out on the table: our organization fights tirelessly for the rights of all humans, regardless of national origin, religious belief, sexual orientation, and myriad other ...
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By Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J-Street I must say I’m disappointed that the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations voted against allowing J-Street to gain membership. It would have provided an opportunity to force our agenda onto an Israeli ...
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By Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street Executive Director We’ve gotten so used to associating support for Israel with support for Israel’s right to exist that it no longer occurs to us to wonder whether that must be the case. My organization ...
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By Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah There’s no higher goal than resisting Israeli occupation. And there’s no better way to resist Israeli occupation than by replacing it with effective Iranian occupation. My organization exerts most of its efforts trying to keep ...
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By Yasser Arafat It’s been what, almost ten years now, and you’re still going on about what sinister forces conspired to assassinate me by whatever nefarious means? Get a life. I’ve got my own widow claiming I was poisoned, some ...
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By Barack Obama Most presidents are concerned with their legacy. Not this one. I started my presidency with the world’s most prestigious peace prize already under my belt, and had nothing to prove. That means no pretense of caring about ...
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By Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President The time just is not right for a comprehensive peace deal between us and Israel. Even if it is, you won’t see me signing it. When that happens, I plan to be six feet ...
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By Adolf Hitler I’m as anti-Jew as the next Nazi, but stop saying Israel commits genocide against the Palestinians. Calling anything Israel does to the Palestinians “genocide” is a slap in the face to those of us who devoted years ...
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By the Palestinian Centre For Human Rights When a rocket kills a Palestinian child, there is only one important question we rights organizations ask: who fired the weapon? Only if the answer is Israel do we then examine the myriad ...
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