Blue White Future public consul member, Mr. Asher Susser in an article about the two state solution (Originally published at  Foreign Policy Research Institute,) October 2012 Asher Susser is the former Director of the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University (1989-1995, 2001-2007), where he teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History. He is author of Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: The Two-State Imperative (Brandeis University Press, 2011) and The Rise of Hamas in Palestine and the Crisis of Secularism in the Arab World (Crown Center, 2010). He was a fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University….

As we approach November elections in the United States, it becomes imperative that new life be injected into the moribund peace process. Gilead Sher discusses BWF’s plan for action in an article in the Jewish Chronicle, arguing that the election season in the US should not distract Israeli leaders from taking bold steps to secure a Jewish and Democratic future for its citizens. In addition to setting the stage for a two state solution through financial incentives and the voluntary removal of settlers, Sher also emphasises the need for civil society on both sides of the border to internalize a two-state future before concrete steps have actually been taken. Such steps,…

To the original post from Haarerz.com press here Israel’s mainstream needs to be given reasonable alternatives to fear-mongering on the one hand and self-righteous utopianism on the other hand. First of all Mazal Tov to us all: Israel will be celebrating its 64th Independence Day tomorrow. We will all go to parties, see friends, and probably eat too much at tomorrow’s barbecues. The festivities will make us forget for a day that at 64 Israel’s internal discourse is haunted by profound insecurities: will the country still be around in another two generations? Will it retain its democratic character? Will it…

One of the heartwarming byproducts of the current protest movement is the reemergence of the values of solidarity. As Amos Oz expressed it in this paper on August 2, the protest has contributed to “a delightful revival of mutual fraternity and commitment.” At the same time, however, Oz also identified the settlements as the first place from which the resources required for establishing social justice in Israel should be taken. This embodies the dilemma faced by the protesters: On the one hand, they make every effort to remain apolitical, which means agnostic when it comes to opinions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian…