High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yossi (Joseph) Alpher is a consultant and writer on Israel-related strategic issues. He is coeditor of bitterlemons.org and bitterlemons-international.org together with Ghassan Khatib, former Minister of Planning in the Palestinian Authority. Bitterlemons.org is an online Israeli-Palestinian political dialogue magazine; Bitterlemons International is a web-based "Middle East roundtable". Alpher also serves on the executive committee of the Council for Peace and Security.