February 19, 2010 - 2:55pm Hamas Would Lose Elections
February 19, 2010

49 percent of Palestinians were found to prefer Fatah's approach, 12 percent Hamas and 38 percent did not like either party's strategy or refused to answer.

Ibish at Tufts ATFP Senior Fellow delivers Fares Lecture Series Address at Tufts
February 18, 2010

Watch Hussein Ibish deliver a Fares Lecture Series entitled "Israel, the Palestinians and the One-State Agenda," which critiques one-state rhetoric by some pro-Palestinian voices

February 18, 2010 - 1:56pm Corruption…The Conflict between Ramallah and Gaza
February 18, 2010

The difference between Gaza and Ramallah is that the latter enjoys a greater margin of freedom which allows them to explore such issues and in public, while rule in Gaza is reminiscent of the Communist regimes during the Cold War era.

February 17, 2010 - 11:33am Failed negotiations could fatally undermine the Palestinian Authority
February 17, 2010

First, there can be no return to square one. Second, there has to be a timeframe. Third, there have to be certain points of reference for the talks such as international decisions regarding the conflict.

February 16, 2010 - 1:57pm Confronting Settlement Expansion in East Jerusalem
February 16, 2010

Authorities rarely evict Jewish settlers, no matter how dubious the documentary evidence of their ownership. Moreover, no Israeli court has recognized the property rights of any of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have resided in East Jerusalem since becoming refugees in 1948.

Ibish at Brandeis ATFP Senior Fellow speaks at Brandeis Brown Bag Lunch
February 16, 2010

Ibish emphasized that any idea presenting itself as a solution had to be potentially acceptable to the parties that would have to agree to it.

Board of the Palestine Investment Fund Selling a piece of Palestinian Main Street
February 16, 2010

A new private equity fund hopes to raise cash to invest in small and medium-sized businesses in the territories.

February 15, 2010 - 2:26pm A day in the life of the Palestinian Ben-Gurion
February 15, 2010

His weapons are responsibility, efficiency, transparency - and above all, patience. The power centers in Israel have no idea how to deal with an economist who looks like a bank branch manager and has never held a pistol in his life.

February 11, 2010 - 4:45pm Hard Mideast Truths
February 11, 2010

The impressive recent work of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank shows that Palestinian responsibility is no oxymoron and demands of Israel a response less abject than creeping annexation.

Ibish at Massachusettes Institute of Technology ATFP Senior Fellow gives MIT seminar
February 11, 2010

The new PA state and institution building program is "the best idea anyone has had in at least 15 years for dealing with this conflict constructively."


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