Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's trajectory back...
Haaretz | Amos Harel | Posted 02.20.2009 | World
The Israel Air Force on Tuesday evening bombed a target in the Gaza Strip used earlier in the day Palestinian militants to fire eight mortar shells at...
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 02.20.2009 | World
Mr. President, you bring a lot of hope to my region, and people are counting on you to make a change for the better and to once and for all bring peace and prosperity to this very troubled part of the world.
Eric Margolis | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...
Jared Cohen | Posted 02.14.2009 | World
What is it about the Arab-Israeli conflict that makes it evoke emotion on such a global scale across such a diverse set of populations? Why does this issue dominate other more local grievances?
Sunil Adam | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama's conspicuous silence on the latest conflagration in the Middle East is perhaps not only tactical but also prudent. There...
Eric Margolis | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
Unless Israel can make five to seven million Palestinians disappear, it must find some way to co-exist with them. Israeli leaders on the center and right continue to avoid facing this fact.
Warren Goldstein | Posted 02.04.2009 | Politics
There are far too many reasons to feel distress, sadness, and anger about Israel's massive air bombardment and invasion of Gaza--its shortsightedness;...
Hagai El-Ad | Posted 02.04.2009 | World
When I was younger, or so the legends go, the wars here were more robust. They used to come once a decade or so, coherent, conventional, with a clear ...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 02.03.2009 | World
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO ***UPDATE*** January 4th, 9:38PM The Times of London reports that Israel's rain of fire on Gaza is thought to be caused by cont...
Robert Naiman | Posted 01.31.2009 | World
If the US had working relations with Iran, Iran could use its "good offices" with Hamas to help quickly bring about a "durable and sustainable" ceasefire, ending the assaults on Gaza.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
Israelis and Palestinians have been trying to prove to each other that they can survive never ending violence, an eternal occupation, and a perpetual cycle of denial that the two cannot exist together.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
Israel finds itself in a similar position the United States found itself in Vietnam: The more it flexes its military muscle the politically weaker it becomes vis-à-vis a determined, largely civilian enemy.
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
Israel, torn in anger and exaggerated feelings of vulnerability, is unlikely to stop bombing until it realizes that is has once again shot itself in the foot.
Mustafa Barghouthi | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
After hundreds dead and counting, it is Israel who refuses to re-enter talks over a cease-fire. They are not intent on securing peace as they claim; it is more and more clear that they are seeking regime change -- whatever the cost.
Johann Hari | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
The Israeli government wants peace, but only one imposed on its own terms, based on the acceptance of defeat by the Palestinians.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
Nationalist MPs shared together in a clear act of national consensus as they torched the Israeli flag at the outset of the parliament's session Sunday.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 01.28.2009 | Media
The foreign press, and even Haaretz in Israel, carries more balanced accounts than the American media.
AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and KARIN LAUB | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel widened its deadliest-ever air offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers Sunday, pounding smuggling tunnels and gover...
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
Israel Defense Forces released aerial photos of the Hamas facilities targeted by fighter pilots on Saturday's Operation Cast Lead. The red outline indicates the Hamas facilities targeted.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 01.27.2009 | World
SCROLL DOWN FOR SLIDESHOW ***UPDATE*** 12/29 11:45PM Israel continued to pound Hamas targets in Gaza for a fourth straight day: Israeli warplanes k...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 01.22.2009 | World
The sad fact is that the most significant Israeli-Palestinian legacy of the Bush administration is the coming to power of Hamas.
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
For the Obama administration to help orchestrate an Arab-Israeli peace agreement, it must accept the premise that America's active and direct role is indispensable.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Having just gotten off the plane from the Middle East, one thing is for certain: whether you are pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian or pro-whatever, there is hardly a soul who is not rooting for a big Obama victory.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Rather than being necessary for getting him to the White House, Obama's right-wing positions regarding Israel and its neighbors are actually hurting him.
Wall Street Journal | ANDREW HIGGINS | Posted 02.24.2009 | World