This week the editors of The New York Times's sprang to the defense of Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner following weeks of controversy over his so...
Since the Jewish state's military attack on Lebanon in 2006, it has been itching for a "do-over." Why? Because for the first time in its history, Israel did not win a war -- an intolerable outcome by the standards of the Israel Defense Forces.
Watchdog organizations have shined a light on the content of books in schools in the Palestinian territories -- and what they illuminated was a consistent pattern of propaganda.
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Peace Prevails in Ireland A last minute peace deal is reached in Northern Ireland to peacefully devolve L...
It is doubtful Ban's report will have much impact on the controversy over the Goldstone report, which said that both Israel and Palestinian militants engaged in actions that amounted to war crimes.
Will Israel set up any kind of inquiry rather than let the army investigate itself? And would such an independent inquiry leave it open to more criticism or judicial threats than the Goldstone report?
As a "card-carrying realist," I find Haass's recommendation to "promote" -- he does not actually call for "doing" -- regime change in Tehran as running contrary to any sensible realist viewpoint.
The list of UN resolutions, legal bodies, mainstream human rights organizations, and prominent human rights advocates who have recently condemned, wit...
Behind the bells and whistles of President Obama's State of the Union, North Korea, the international pariah state, continued to make concrete belligerent moves in its foreign policy this week.
Responding to the Goldstone report, Israeli Defense Minister Barak says "that the Israeli Defense Forces are like no other army, both from a moral standpoint as well as from a professional standpoint." Whew! Well, that's it. Israel is now off the hook.
I looked under my bed last night, just in case. With Al Qaeda popping up in new countries daily, it seemed prudent to make sure a spanking new Salafi jihadist cell wasn't being formed under my mattress.
Spending more than four months in Gaza with not much to do but observe the situation on the ground, I interacted with the Palestinian people in Gaza, ...
A year after Israel's offensive in Gaza drove a wedge between Turkey and Israel, emotions are still overriding reason, causing what was recently seen to be a diplomatic breach on the verge of crisis.
Oil-rich Arab nations have been criticized in Western media for not doing enough to help the victims of the earthquake, but many have already pledged or sent their support to the devastated nation.
A year after the Gaza War - two Israelis and a Palestinian gather in a small church in Manhattan to talk about Operation Cast Lead, carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces.
Every terror organization, by definition, will attempt to abduct soldiers and civilians from the countries against which it operates. It will try to do so at any given time, and at every opportunity that arises.
What accounts for the effective collapse of U.S. efforts to bring about a two-state Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Obama and his key advisers may actually still believe much of the discredited Israeli mythology that prevents a peace settlement.
Much has been said about former President Jimmy Carter's surprise apology to the Jewish Community in a recent open letter. I commend the sentiments expressed by Mr. Carter.
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Iran Rallies, Counter-Rallies, and a Deadline Passed This week saw the continuation of another wave of m...
2009 was certainly not a year of triumphs for mankind nor human kindliness. The world economic crisis is neither diagnostically nor therapeutically on the way to a solution.
More than a thousand activists from around 40 countries remained in Cairo after the Egyptian government declined them entry due to the "sensitive situation" in the Palestinian territory. When was it not a "sensitive situation" in Palestine?
