The Resilience of the Arab World’s Pouvoir

TEL AVIV – Eight years after the Arab Spring, dreams of democracy in the Arab world have been dashed by the harsh reality of autocracy, corruption,...

Shlomo Ben-Ami

20 17.05.2019

Israel Doubles Down on Illiberal Democracy

TEL AVIV – It is Bibi again. Having unapologetically allied with a racist, Jewish-supremacist party, Binyamin Netanyahu has secured a fourth...

Shlomo Ben-Ami

10 10.04.2019

Maduro’s Useful Idiots

LOS ANGELES – In his 1982 Nobel lecture, the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez condemned the West’s insistence on “measuring us with...

Shlomo Ben-Ami

20 18.03.2019

The Ideology Trap

LOS ANGELES – President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency at the southern border of the United States – where there is no emergency...

Shlomo Ben-Ami

30 19.02.2019

A Three-State Solution for Israel and Palestine?

LOS ANGELES – The goal of two states for two nations, living side by side within secure borders, has been the foundation of the Israeli-Palestinian...

Shlomo Ben-Ami

30 18.01.2019

The Trumping of the Middle East

TEL AVIV – US President Donald Trump may be mercurial, but he does have a doctrine. As his speech in September at the United Nations General...

Shlomo Ben-Ami

10 15.01.2019

Anti-Semitism Has a New Name

MADRID – Over the centuries, Jews have been blamed for all sorts of ills in Christian and Muslim societies, from the Great Plague of the fourteenth...