Historical Revisionism on the Temple Mount
A recent rejection of any Judeo-Christian connection to Jerusalem has become a growing force in Palestinian nationalism that may permanently endanger Jerusalem's ancient and modern past.
A recent rejection of any Judeo-Christian connection to Jerusalem has become a growing force in Palestinian nationalism that may permanently endanger Jerusalem's ancient and modern past.
Mitchell Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Can we learn something from Aristotle about Israeli-Palestinian arguments? Who can persuade whom of what?
James Zogby | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
With the dust having settled following Obama's New York meetings with Netanyahu and Abbas, a sober assessment of what actually happened, and what may happen next, is in order.
Michael Brenner | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Obama is a man of personal audacity, but little courage. His instinctive avoidance of head-on confrontations will leave him unprepared, psychologically and politically, for the requisite arm twisting of Israel.
Michael Brenner | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
That's it, folks -- there ain't no more from the G-20 summit. The blood oaths of November and April to tackle head-on the practices that brought us to the brink of disaster are evidently gone with the wind.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
While Israel pretends not to have the nuclear bomb, Iran says its not making one, while Israel continues to displace Palestinians, Iran continues to imprison opposition.
Amjad Atallah | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
Noah Efron: "To be a secular Israeli in 2009 is a demoralizing and demoralized affair... We are tired of the bombs... Of UN and EU condemnations... Of our lives and tired of ourselves."
Jerusalem Post | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be out of the country for most of next week when two major US policy makers, Middle East envoy George Mitchell...
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an...
Foreign Policy | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
Barack Obama might still be overwhelmingly popular around the world, but here are five heads of state who probably wish they could have the old guy ba...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
Despite consistent US efforts to convince Israel to freeze all settlement activities in the West Bank, in accordance with the 2003 Road Map, US offici...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
In a sign that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell are making headway in their London talks over the Middle E...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
The effects of Vice President Joe Biden's recent remarks during an interview with ABC's "This Week"--where he implied that Israel has a sovereign righ...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Following Vice President Joe Biden's statements in an interview on ABC's "The Week"--which many believe to amount to a tacit condoning of a hypothetic...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Though President Obama is reported to be taking an unprecedentedly harder line on Israel's settlement activities, expressed through statements by rank...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem won a victory over the army in Israel's Supreme court Wednesday when a stronger indictment was unanimously ord...
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — French president Nicolas Sarkozy urged the Israeli prime minister to fire his foreign minister _ a hard-liner whose party tried to f...
Al Jazeera English | Posted 06.25.2009 | World
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has rejected a call by the French president to halt settlement activity in the occupied West Bank. ...
Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.22.2009 | World
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has positioned himself -- and Egypt's diplomatic initiatives -- at the head of the Arab camp's efforts to bring peace to the region.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
It is time for the Israeli leadership to grasp this opportunity. They can continue to argue over who is worse than whom or they can start moving one step at a time toward a greater Middle East peace.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
President Barack Obama's seminal address in Cairo marked a turning point in America's relations with the Muslim world. His message was clear and incon...
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
UNITED NATIONS — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's tough terms for a Palestinian p...
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attempt to narrow a growing divide with the Obama administration when he delivers a m...
Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government over US President Barack Obama's Middle East policies, Minister-without...
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel plans to build a 200-room hotel next to the Old City of Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry announced Tuesday, drawing a mild pr...
Daniel Levin | Posted 10.19.2009 | World