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.

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 ...

In their new book, “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”, veteran Middle East negotiators Robert Malley and Hussein Agha examine how and why the stubborn adherence to the two-state solution narrative to end the ...