Every year, thousands of young people move to Washington, D.C., hoping to reach a trusted position like the one enjoyed by Robert Malley, the favorite Iran whisperer of the Obama and Biden ...

In my years as an editor on the opinion desk at the Forward, I’ve gotten dozens of emails from writers proclaiming that they’ve come up with the solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their ...

For decades, the U.S. has tried to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Those efforts, despite the deep passion among the mediators and the endless work with both sides, ultimately failed. Robert ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Hussein Agha and Robert Malley about their new book, "Tomorrow is Yesterday" – an insiders' account on why the Israeli-Palestinian peace process ultimately failed. On this ...

Two new books dive into the details of diplomacy. First, in the 1960s U Thant became the first non-Western secretary-general of the United Nations. Now his grandson, historian Thant Myint-U, has ...

On this day - September 13 - in 1993, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands at the White House and signed a framework for peace between Palestinians and Israel. I was in Jerusalem at the time.

This all makes it especially galling that, in a new book co-authored by Malley and Hussein Agha, Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine, Malley sniffs that, ...