Shlomo Ben-Ami
Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign 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.
Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign 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.
With the battles of Mosul and Raqqa dislodging ISIS from its strongholds in Syria and Iraq, and the Syrian civil war becoming a war of attrition, the Middle East’s most acute conflicts are evolving f… read more
Over the last 50 years, Palestinians have tried virtually everything to escape Israel’s repressive occupation – from civil resistance to armed conflict to international diplomacy – to no avail. Now th… read more
Six years after the fall of Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya remains mired in conflict and political chaos. To stem the emergence of an extremist haven at Europe’s gates and prevent the country from becoming… read more
US President Donald Trump has put on the back burner an executive order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group. He should leave it there permanently, for a simple reason: pol… read more
As the UK’s Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump as US President demonstrated, voters are too easily fooled by prejudice and false promises. The question is whether a brand of politics t… read more
After a half-century of occupying Palestinian territory, Israel is succumbing to its deepest ethno-centrist impulses, and increasingly rejecting recognized boundaries. Israel is now joining the growin… read more
Some in the US have praised President-elect Donald Trump for his supposed realism, claiming that he will act with the shrewd pragmatism of a businessman, and that this will make America stronger and m… read more
The US president-elect's muddled statements offer little insight into what kind of foreign policy he will actually pursue, and there is not much reason to believe that, when his approach does become c… read more
Peacemaking is always a divisive enterprise – so divisive, in fact, that it is often thwarted by politics within the antagonists’ own camps. That is precisely what happened in Colombia recently, when … read more
One of the few encouraging political developments of 2016 was the Colombian government’s peace agreement with the country’s FARC guerrillas, ending a half-century of violent insurgency. How was the de… read more
