The Iran deal is important, but the international community needs to take time to hash a permanent deal that keeps everyone happy.
Alan Elsner, a former Reuters correspondent in Jerusalem and at the State Department, is Vice President for Communications for J Street, a U.S.-based Israel advocacy group that supports a two-state solution.
Sheldon Adelson's new website, Rethink Israel, aims at making Israel 'cool, not uncool.' But this kind of 'beyond the conflict' PR strategy always falls flat. Here's why.
Netanyahu's failure to confront Israel's settler lobby raises questions about his commitment to peace, writes Alan Elsner.
Media experts are portraying Kerry as a well-meaning but naïve Don Quixote flailing vainly against windmills. Here's why we shouldn't be so quick to condemn his Israeli-Palestinian peace mission.
Alan Elsner on what President Obama should say about Israeli-Palestinian peace in his next State of the Union Address.