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How Hamas Has Retained Its Leverage
The agony of negotiation with terrorists.
Peter Berkowitz
Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019 and 2020, he served as Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. His writings are posted at www.PeterBerkowitz.com.
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What Religion Owes Democracy, and What Democracy Owes Religion
Restoring the church-state balance.
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Expand Gaza into Sinai
A workable if flawed alternative to letting Hamas return to power.
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Government Honors Religion Best by Protecting Religious Liberty
The American tradition.
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How Israel Can Start Solving Its Day-After Problem
Threading the needle.
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The International Court of Justice Is Fundamentally Flawed
A not-so-independent judiciary.
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The UN’s Schools of Anti-Semitism
Stopping UNRWA indoctrination is a prerequisite for peace.
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Israel, and Israeli Politics, at War
Have the country’s divisions been healed, or papered over?
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How to Save the Universities
They must cultivate freedom, but are especially ill-suited to the task.
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The Rot in the Universities Runs Deep, and Is Spreading to Elementary and Secondary Schools
A destructive pedagogical creed.
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What Israel Can Learn from Its Declaration of Independence
Like its American counterpart, it affirms that fundamental freedoms are inseparable from our humanity.
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Podcast: Peter Berkowitz and Gadi Taub on the Deeper Causes of Israel’s Internal Conflict
By Peter Berkowitz, Gadi Taub, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Reforms to Israel’s Judiciary Must Be Carefully Calibrated
Change is necessary and inevitable. But it must not amplify division or open the nation up to unintended consequences.
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The Enemies of Religious Liberty in America, and How to Refute Them
There are those on both the right and the left who wish to “employ government to regulate faith.”
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What Israeli Conservatives Can Learn from Their American Counterparts
Individual freedom and traditional sensibilities.
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How the Abraham Accords Can Ease the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Proving its critics wrong.
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The Roots of American Political Division and Discontent
The clash within liberal democracy.
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The Clash Within Liberal Democracy: Israel, the United States, and the West
By Peter BerkowitzCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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An Educational Agenda for the Abraham Accords
Gathering Israelis and Arabs to read Maimonides, al-Farabi, and Aquinas.
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The Right Way for the Biden Administration to Help the Palestinians
Building on the Abraham Accords.
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Understanding the U.S. Position on Settlements—and the Twin Political Crises of America and Israel
Insights from Mike Pompeo’s former adviser on Israel policy.
Observation ·
Podcast: Peter Berkowitz on Connecting Unalienable Rights to Foreign Policy
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Peter BerkowitzCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Repeating Old Mistakes Won’t Help the People of Gaza
It’s necessary to resist fantasizing about the motivations of the involved parties.
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Why Religion and Liberalism Should Be Allies, Not Enemies
The philosophy of freedom and its discontents.
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In Attempting to Solve the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Less Is Usually More
The case for limited goals.
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How to Confront a Crisis of Cultural Confidence
By Peter BerkowitzCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Best Books of the Year, as Selected by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Peter Berkowitz, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David WolpeCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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What Does Biblical Faith Have to Do with Political Freedom?
Exploring the links between Judaism and conservatism.
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A New Book Calls Out the Tellers of Anti-Israel Lies
Palestinians could be much nearer to self-rule if our progressive media and academy told the truth about Israel.
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The Israel-Palestinian Conflict Needs a Political, Not a Legal, Solution
Make peace valuable to Palestinians.