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Nadim Shehadi

Nadim Shehadi is an economist and political adviser. He has held positions in academia and think tanks in Europe and the US. He ran a program on the regional dimension of the Middle East Peace Process at Chatham House.

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The case for an Israeli peace tax

We cannot call it reparations or compensation, so let us call it a peace tax instead: a 1 percent increase in income and value added tax in an Israeli economy of more than $500 billion would go a long way toward making the Palestinian state a reality. But there is much more to it.

October 25, 2025

To navigate a new order, hire a historian not a social scientist

What if you became the most powerful man in the world, the president of the United States of America? What would you do? Obviously, create a new world order. That is what every American president has tried, from Harry Truman to Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush to Donald Trump.

May 24, 2025