Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister and internal security minister, is Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace. He is the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
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Shlomo Ben-Ami
Commentaries by Shlomo Ben-Ami
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The Vision and the Fantasy
JERUSALEM – Israel, an audacious vision that came true, is now celebrating its 65th anniversary with a sense of well-deserved satisfaction a…
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Autumn of the Patriarchs
MADRID – “How difficult it is to die!” Francisco Franco is reputed to have exclaimed on his deathbed. Death, it seems, is always particularl…
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Why Iran Won’t Budge
TEL AVIV – No one really believed that the latest round of international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would produce a bre…
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Israel’s Election in a Bubble
TEL AVIV – Forty-five years into Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, and four years after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’…
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Arab States of Uncertainty
MADRID – The revolutions that swept the Arab world during the last two years have exposed the extraordinary fragility of key Arab states. Wi…
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Israel’s Missing Peace Offensive
TEL AVIV – Even before the latest cease-fire took hold, it had become clear that the dilemma facing Israel in Gaza entails more than simply …
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Global Zero at Ground Zero
MADRID – Since its launch in December 2008, Global Zero, the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, has run up against some formidable c…
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Israel versus America versus Iran
TEL AVIV – Israel’s concern about the specter of a nuclear Iran has now degenerated into a crisis of confidence concerning the United States…
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Colombia at Peace?
BOGOTÁ – The Framework Agreement for the End of the Armed Conflict in Colombia that has just been announced by President Juan Manuel Santos …
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Revolution in a Vacuum
MADRID – The Cold War is long over, but superpower rivalry is back. As a result, the international community’s capacity to unite in the face…
The Vision and the Fantasy
Leo Arouet: Israel toma en serio la posición de la Derecha sin saber que tales argumentos etnocentristas son infundados. Al no buscar una salida diplomática y se apoya en su maquinaria de guerra, y derecho supue…
Why Iran Won’t Budge
Charles Holley: Iran may not be as isolated and ostracized as the United States of Israel pretends. Iran has a lot more friends than the media portrays, as opposed to 'allies' which other countries buy.