Nathan Thrall

‘Dirty Work’

The Israeli writer S. Yizhar’s 1949 novella Khirbet Khizeh portrays the violent reality of the Nakba. For decades it was part of the canon of Hebrew literature. That has changed.

The Endless Occupation, a New Understanding

“Today’s reality in Israel-Palestine is at odds with everything the United States claims to stand for.”

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

Mideast: A Last Chance

If President Obama is to salvage his legacy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he will have to support a parameters resolution at the Security Council.

Why Did George Mitchell Resign?

Why the US Gets Israel Wrong

Of Skeptics, Reproachers, and Embracers

Whose Palestine?

For a moment in early June, as Hamas ministers in Gaza surrendered their authority to a new government of national consensus, it seemed that Palestine’s political leadership was on the verge of a historic shift. But in the days since, little has changed in Gaza or in Palestinian relations with the West.

Netanyahu, Then and Now

In 1978 a young American citizen then going under the Anglicized name Ben Nitay argued that Palestinians do not have a right to a state, that they could instead get citizenship in Jordan or Israel, and that their goal is not to build a state but to destroy one. Today Benjamin Netanyahu argues against these very same views, which are still espoused by members of a strengthening, more conservative faction of his Likud party.

What Future for Israel?

Our Man in Palestine