For too long, both sides have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity for peace. Let's have a Seder that celebrates peace and statehood for all.
Neil Ford | Posted 01.28.2012
UNESCO is not trying to replace Israeli heritage with Palestinian heritage. Many cultures and religions have their roots in the Middle East and it is important to protect the heritage and cultural monuments of them all.
Anav Silverman | Posted 01.22.2012
Now that the Palestinians have been accepted as UNESCO's 195th member in late October, they can now apply for World Heritage classification for cultural sites they deem exclusively theirs.
The Morningside Post | Posted 11.29.2011
So long as the Israelis and Palestinians of this city remain guilty of indifference and fail to seek understanding beyond their walls, Hebron's future, like its past, will remain mired in constant struggle.
Dan Rather | Posted 05.25.2011
With all of the unrest sweeping the Middle East, one place long-associated with bullets and bloodshed has so far been remarkably calm: the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Anav Silverman | Posted 05.25.2011
As I walk the streets of Jerusalem this Chanukah and see the flickering candles in the windows of Jewish homes, I think back to a time 2,000 years ago, when my ancestors here were denied their rights to follow Jewish tradition by the Syrian-Greeks who then occupied the land.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
The first thing you discover about the residents of Hebron, whom the world derisively describes as settlers, is their warmth, friendliness and hospitality.
Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011
Defining what a terrorist is and isn't is a major dilemma. What one may consider terrorism, another may consider resistance. So where does one draw ...
Kate Lowenstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Four days after the Gaza flotilla incident, I boarded a flight to Tel Aviv and made my way to Ramallah to visit a friend.
Allen Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011
The Middle East is a complicated place, but some things are not complicated. It is not complicated to understand that many young people care not for politics, but only want a just life and a decent job.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011
This week, New York City's Jewish community is riven by protests, counterprotests, and now, threats of Jew-on-Jew intimidation over the question of Israel and the Palestinians.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011
The most worrisome aspect of the decision by the Israeli government to recognize various West Bank sites as part of Israel's heritage is the conflation of the state of Israel and the Jewish religion.
Reuters | Sangwon Yoon | Posted 05.25.2011
Tony Blair, the Middle East envoy for the "Quartet" of powers - the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations, was assailed by ...
Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011
It was late, maybe midnight When we opened the door for Elijah Fully expecting Aunt Ida, in sable. But it was Pharaoh that walked in to the wine and the whining.
Yediot Ahronot | Efrat Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011
A 14-year old Palestinian was killed Friday afternoon in Hebron in what was apparently a clash between stone-throwers and IDF soldiers....
J.D. Lasica | Posted 05.25.2011
The Israeli occupation is nowhere more evident than in the heart of this once thriving metropolis, whose hillsides hold 166,000 Palestinian residents but whose streets are a ghost town patrolled by the IDF.
J.D. Lasica | Posted 05.25.2011
Western journalists typically skim along the surface of the Middle East, covering the day-to-day outrages. Here is a video that shows a slice of life in a troubled land on a single afternoon.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011
If Israeli settlers can make property claims in East Jerusalem based on title deeds that pre-exist 1948, why can't Palestinians make similar claims in West Jerusalem?
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
JERUSALEM — Israel beefed up security throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank on Friday, bracing for new violence after the evacuation of a dispu...
guardian.co.uk | Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem | Posted 05.25.2011
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has released graphic video footage showing settlers fighting with Palestinians in Hebron and shooting two men ...
New York Times | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 05.25.2011
HEBRON, West Bank -- Israeli troops forcibly evicted about 200 hard-line Jewish settlers from a contested building in this volatile biblical city on T...
The Globe and Mail | ADAM ENTOUS and ALASTAIR MACDONALD | Posted 05.25.2011
HEBRON, West Bank -- Forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Western-backed Palestinian president, are rounding up suspected Islamist activists and allegat...
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
HEBRON, West Bank — Escalating aggression by extremist Israeli youths holed up in a disputed house in the biblical city of Hebron approached the...
The Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Rabbi Yigal Shandrapi, the head of Yeshuat Mordechai Yeshiva, is expected to be brought before the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Wednesday for a rem...
Northwest Herald | Sarah Sutschek | Posted 05.25.2011
Alden-Hebron District 19 school officials tonight are expected to discuss the arrest of the district's technology director after police said he solici...
Tom Allon | Posted 04.09.2012