IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
The number of Americans supporting sanctions against Israel over its settlement policy grew by 9 percent over the past year and now stands at 46%, according to a new poll released by the Brookings Institution on Friday. According to twin surveys conducted by the think tank’s Shibley Telhami before and after the November 8 presidential elections, support for punitive measures against Israel has increased among members of both major parties...
on December 2, 2016
We do not yet know the policy of the next administration toward Israel and Palestine, but we do know the policy of this administration. It has been President Obama’s aim to support a negotiated end to the conflict based on two states, living side by side in peace. That prospect is now in grave doubt. I am convinced that the United States can still shape the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before a change in presidents, but time is very short.
on November 28, 2016
Q&As
Ahead of the incoming administration of president-elect Donald Trump, the IMEU shares the following expert Q&A on its potential implications for Israel and the Palestinians, featuring Yousef Munayyer, political analyst at the Arab Center of Washington, DC, and executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Zaha Hassan, human rights lawyer and Middle East Fellow at New America.
on November 14, 2016
Fact Sheets
After the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the IMEU offers the following facts on his life and career. Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski in 1923 in Belarus, then part of Poland, before immigrating to Palestine, then under British Mandate, in 1934.
on September 28, 2016
Barack Obama is a bad president for Israel. If the military aid he approved for the coming decade is the largest ever, then as a president he is the worst ever for Israel. The last thing Israel needs is more arms, which will push it toward more acts of violence.
on September 19, 2016
On June 24, as the Democratic Party platform drafting committee meeting in St. Louis, Missouri debated late into the night over whether to call Israel’s nearly half-century-old military rule over the Palestinians an ‘occupation,’ the Presbyterian Church USA’s General Assembly meeting in Portland, Oregon voted to adopt some of the most progressive policies on Palestine of any major U.S. institution.
on July 8, 2016
Q&As
As 2015 comes to a close, the IMEU offers the following expert Q&A on the year's events in Palestine/Israel, as well as a look ahead to 2016, with political analysts Diana Buttu and Mouin Rabbani.
on December 21, 2015
US President Barack Obama on Friday signed a $1.8 trillion budget, including $3.1 billion in aid to Israel, to be in effect until October 2016. The bill was signed after a compromise was reached between Congress Republicans and Democrats that prevented a government shutdown. The $3.1 billion in aid includes $487 million for protecting Israel's skies with the Iron Dome system...
on December 19, 2015
Q&As
Shibley Telhami's latest poll reveals that fewer than half of all Republicans (45%) want the U.S. to side diplomatically with Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians, with that number dropping to just 36% when you remove Evangelical voters from the picture. Meanwhile, 75% of Democrats and 80% of independents want the U.S. to be neutral.
on December 16, 2015