Dr. Ilan Peleg is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Government & Law at Lafayette College and a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. A former president of the Association for Israel Studies and the founding editor-in-chief of Israel Studies Forum, Peleg is the author or editor of 11 books, including Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (Cambridge, 2011, with Dov Waxman), Human Rights in the West Bank & Gaza (Syracuse, 1995), The Emergence of Binational Israel: The Second Republic in the Making (Westview, 1989), and Democratizing the Hegemonic State (Cambridge, 2007).