--- title: Another Look at the Arab-Israeli Stalemate description: A three-state idea for the Israeli-Arab conflict, how undiscovered species are hiding out in our museums and more. canonical: https://time.com/4215396/arab-israeli-stalemate/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-10T17:01:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:26.258Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Another Look at the Arab-Israeli Stalemate og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4215396/arab-israeli-stalemate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Another Look at the Arab-Israeli Stalemate twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Another Look at the Arab-Israeli Stalemate by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 10, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 10, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Could a three-state confederation resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict?**](http://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/the-post-obama-world/one-way-to-resolve-the-israeli-arab-conflict-a-three-state-confederation/) By Sanford Lakoff in the Wilson Quarterly **2\.** [**America’s natural history museums are full of undiscovered species.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-unexplored-marvels-locked-away-in-our-natural-history-museums/459306/) By Ed Yong in the Atlantic **3\.** [**To be a successful entrepreneur, take fewer risks. (You read that right.)**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/02/take-a-big-risk-by-keeping-your-day-job.html) By Melissa Dahl in the Science of Us **4\.** [**Law schools should push students to civic-minded careers. Here’s how.**](https://aeon.co/opinions/law-schools-should-nudge-their-students-into-civic-minded-jobs) By Pete Davis in Aeon **5\.** [**These cars don’t need drivers and they won’t need wires to charge either.**](http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/google-wants-its-driverless-cars-to-be-wireless-too) By Mark Harris in IEEE Spectrum  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4215396/arab-israeli-stalemate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4215396/arab-israeli-stalemate/"},"headline":"Another Look at the Arab-Israeli Stalemate","datePublished":"2016-02-10T17:01:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:26.258Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4215396/arab-israeli-stalemate/","keywords":["Innovation","Entrepreneurs","Israel","driverless cars","museums"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4215396/arab-israeli-stalemate/","name":"Another Look at the Arab-Israeli Stalemate"}}]}] ```