Briefing Papers

Briefing Paper – Mar 2010The March/April 2010 addition of Foreign Affairs1 features an article entitled 'Armistice Now' written by the Lafer International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East...

IntroductionPalestinian civil society in the Occupied West Bank today faces one of its most daunting challenges in decades. Saddled with a military occupation Palestinians must also contend with an...

Briefing Paper – Dec 2009 After last month's astonishing speculation about a breakthrough in the prisoner exchange negotiations between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza and Israel, it...

The people of Gaza have been suffering for more than two years now under an illegal siege put in place by Israel.  This siege has been aided and abetted...