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Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, seated at left, looks to Lebanon’s ambassador to the U.S., Nada Hamadeh, seated at right, while speaking at a signing of a framework agreement between the countries. AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

Israel and Lebanon have a long history of failed ceasefires – will this time be any different?

In past agreements, there appeared to be a tacit understanding between Hezbollah and Israel that conflict would eventually resume.
Palestinian students receive instruction at a makeshift school made up of a cluster of tents along the beach in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Lessons from Palestine: Understanding the resistance of educators and students in times of crisis

Understanding emotional concepts like qahr is essential to supporting educators and students living under occupation, war and violence.
It’s important to understand both the possibilities and limitations of campus dialogue. A person walks past a board with the message ‘Free Palestine’ on the campus of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Feb. 7, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Middle East student dialogue: As an expert in deep conflict, what I’ve learned about making conversation possible

In 2015, I saw Jewish and Muslim students forge a set of group agreements so they could dialogue on the Middle East conflict. Initiatives like this or a ‘Semester in Dialogue’ program are promising.
Deportation of Tantura’s women and children, from Fureidis to Tulkarm, three weeks after the Israeli takeover. The documentary, Tantura, aims to shed light on the destruction of the Palestinian village in 1948. (Israel State Archive, Benno Rothenberg collection)

Tantura: New documentary sparks debate about Israel and the Palestinian Nakba

The documentary, Tantura, has raised difficult questions about the foundation of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba.
Israeli security forces clash with a Palestinian protesting the construction of Jewish settlements and a ‘separation wall,’ village of Ramallah, West Bank, Aug. 7, 2020. Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Israel suspends formal annexation of the West Bank, but its controversial settlements continue

An expert of the Israel-Palestine conflict explains the history of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, and why they are so controversial.
Israeli flags fly in the middle of a date plantation in the Israeli settlement of Shlomtzion in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank on 27 January 2020. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP

Debate: in the West Bank, the palm trees of discord

The Jordan Valley, which US president Donald Trump has proposed integrating into Israel, has been transformed by the introduction of date palms, emptying it of its Palestinian inhabitants.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, in the Israeli-held Golan Heights on March 11, 2019. Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP

Why Trump’s recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory matters

Political leverage aside, it’s a major source of water in a parched corner of the world that harbors significant oil deposits.

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