Shortly before this week’s U.S.-guided, Israeli-Palestinian summit meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, I spent a day with someone who understands the complexities of Middle East peacemaking better than most: Jehan Sadat, the widow of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Our conversations took me back to a more optimistic period, that of the Camp David Accords, when the [...]

When I wrote about the exploding Palestinian-versus-Palestinian crisis last week, I hardly anticipated numerous messages about my “suggested peace plan.” Actually, I referenced more of an idea to break the logjam — a regional peace conference on the order of the Madrid summit of 1991 — than a plan.
One recent development that dovetails nicely with [...]

At least three scenarios peer through the internecine fog of the Palestinian imbroglio, which last week edged dangerously close to a civil war: reconciliation, co-existence and conflict.
First – and least probable – is the possibility that the major forces, Fatah and Hamas, will make nice. After all, Hamas burst onto the scene, cloaked in Islamic [...]