Mitchell Bard
ARTICLES BY: Mitchell Bard
The ‘No Jewish State’ Solution
Pundits and policymakers act as though solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is like playing Risk. They manufacture formulas with the single-minded purpose of arriving at a...
Jewish Voters and the Criteria for a Pro-Israel President
In 2016, I broke Jewish voters into five categories and suggested nine criteria for a pro-Israel president. Joe Biden has replaced Hillary Clinton on the...
AIPAC Confounds the Critics
You know the old saw that there are only two certainties in life -- death and taxes. Well, let me add a third. Every year,...
Olmert’s Joke: Abbas Is a Man of Peace
In one of the more bizarre scenes in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, disgraced and formerly jailed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared with...
Remembering the Failure of the Arab League Blacklist
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has just published a database of companies operating in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem. The intention is to create...
Will Jews Sit Out the Election?
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has now won two primaries, exacerbating panic in Democratic ranks that he might become the nominee for president and lead the...
Trump’s Impossibly Pragmatic Peace Plan
The peace plan released by the president is the most sensible ever devised -- and, simultaneously, the least sensible. Jared Kushner was right about two...
Will Trump’s Peace Plan Matter?
Almost every US administration has come up with a peace plan, and they all have one thing in common -- failure. The Trump plan will...
Mideast History Does Not Begin When Journalists Arrive
One reason that journalists often get stories wrong and mislead their audiences is because they often behave as if history begins when they arrive in...
For BDS Supporters, Stupid Is as Stupid Does
Forrest Gump perfectly described BDS supporters and antisemitic hysterics, who are also liars and hypocrites. This is exemplified by their constant whining about alleged efforts...
Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’
I have written before about the importance of semantics in the discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how frustrated many people are about losing various...
How to Understand the US Failure in the Middle East
I've written about the malevolent influence of Arabists in the US government. After leaving public service, many seek to influence policy and public opinion. One...
US Recognizes Settlement Truth
The United States has finally come to the legal and practical conclusion that “The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not...
2020: Trump, Clinton, Obama 2.0, or Worse
The US presidential election is still a year away, and the race to determine the Democratic candidate for president remains wide open, though polls suggest...
