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Nathan Thrall

Nathan Thrall is the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine (2017). He lives in Jerusalem.

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The Endless Occupation, a New Understanding

“Today’s reality in Israel-Palestine is at odds with everything the United States claims to stand for.”

March 20, 2021

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

March 19, 2021

Palestinian protestors run from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers at a weekly protest against the Israeli occupation, West Bank, Nabi Saleh, 2013

Mideast: A Last Chance

If President Obama is to salvage his legacy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he will have to support a parameters resolution at the Security Council.

September 10, 2016

Why Did George Mitchell Resign?

November 6, 2014 issue

Why the US Gets Israel Wrong

Of Skeptics, Reproachers, and Embracers

October 9, 2014 issue

Letter

George J. Mitchell

Why Did George Mitchell Resign?

November 6, 2014 issue

A Palestinian child at the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, June 18, 2014

Whose Palestine?

For a moment in early June, as Hamas ministers in Gaza surrendered their authority to a new government of national consensus, it seemed that Palestine’s political leadership was on the verge of a historic shift. But in the days since, little has changed in Gaza or in Palestinian relations with the West.

June 19, 2014

Netanyahu, Then and Now

In 1978 a young American citizen then going under the Anglicized name Ben Nitay argued that Palestinians do not have a right to a state, that they could instead get citizenship in Jordan or Israel, and that their goal is not to build a state but to destroy one. Today Benjamin Netanyahu argues against these very same views, which are still espoused by members of a strengthening, more conservative faction of his Likud party.

July 31, 2013