In Altneuland, the Austro-Hungarian journalist and Zionist pioneer Theodor Herzl, swept up by the romantic nationalism and ethnic rivalries of the late Habsburg empire, painted a portrait of the promised land to come, where Jews and Arabs would join together in the mutually beneficial development of what was then Ottoman …

There are times when it is difficult to bring myself to my writer’s desk, when I know there is something that desperately needs to be acknowledged, but I barely have the words for it. And if I could find them, I ask myself what effect could one small voice possibly …

The Lebanese Council of Ministers agreed on August 7 to the objectives of US Envoy Thomas Barrack’s proposal to disarm Hezbollah.[1] The proposal’s objectives include a phased plan to completely disarm Hezbollah by December 31, 2025, and to ensure an Israeli withdrawal from its five permanent positions in southern Lebanon.[2] …