GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas' control of the Gaza Strip is now virtually complete. Since the summer, the Islamic militants have silenced and d...
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home
JERUSALEM — Israel will have to give up virtually all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem if it wants peace with the Palestinians, Prime Ministe...
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
While Palin intended her jab to belittle Obama's experience, it in fact helped galvanize those of us who know just how critical, challenging and imperative a role community organizers play.
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — Israel's Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the government of Palesti...
AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Five militants freed in a prisoner swap with Israel prayed and laid wreaths at the grave of a slain Hezbollah commander Thursd...
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN and ARON HELLER | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — Critics of Israel's lopsided prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas said Wednesday that such deals only encourage more hostage-t...
AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
NAHARIYA, Israel — Moshe Sasson felt the gun pressed against his head, a Lebanese assailant poised to shoot, when the lights in the hall of his ...
David A. Andelman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
For many American Jews there is the apparent moral conundrum -- how do you support Tibet over China without supporting Palestine over Israel?
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — Israel's military said it began digging up the bodies of Lebanese fighters Monday after the government struck a deal with Hezbollah ...
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Following the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday which killed at least 3 Israelis, discredited academic Norman Finkelstein sunk to a new low.
Trita Parsi | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
A military attack on Iran would not only lead to Iran opting out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it would kill the Iranian pro-democracy movement.
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian laborer driving a construction vehicle rammed into packed buses, tossed cars into the air and rolled over pedestrians ...
Steve Posner | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Amid the cheers arising in Hezbollah's Beirut and the Gaza of Hamas, the sound of Obama's defense of Israel may also be heard.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
I consider Israel's commitment not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East as sheer PR. However, Israel's offer to give up all nukes should not be ignored.
AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel allowed dozens of trucks to deliver food, diapers and clothes to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, boosting the flow of b...
Richard Silverstein | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
Some Israeli officials have suggested that the purpose of the ceasefire is to give legitimacy to a future military offensive, so that Israeli leaders could claim they had exhausted all other possibilities first.
New York Times | MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Israel carried out a major military exercise earlier this month that American officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
The war in Iraq can dominate media coverage of the Middle East, which may be why some interesting developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict have have ...
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — A long-sought truce between Israel and Gaza militants went into effect early Thursday, with the aim of halting militant attacks and ...
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — The Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas militant group said Tuesday it has reached a cease-fire with Israel meant to halt a cycle of deadly Pa...
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics