Nine months stand between the presumed Arab summit in Damascus, scheduled for the end of March, and the end of George W. Bush's term in office, as Ame...
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
The killing by Israeli undercover troops of four Palestinian militants in Bethlehem, on March 12, raises questions not as much about Israel's right to self-defense but about the context and the circumstances under which this right is exercised.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Hamas has promised to keep aiming its missiles at civilian targets until the Jewish state is finally destroyed. If this is not an "armed attack" under Article 51, then I don't know what is.
AP | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas militants in Gaza backtracked Friday on their claim of responsibility for an attack on a Jewish seminary in Jerusa...
Reuters | Adam Entous and Joseph Nasr | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, claimed responsibility on Friday for the shooting attack in Jerusalem the previous evening in which a local ...
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The U.S.-backed Palestinian president rebuffed the Bush administration's request Tuesday to quickly end a walkout of peace...
Vanity Fair | David Rose | Posted 03.04.2008 | Home
After failing to anticipate Hamas's victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and...
Vanity Fair | David Rose | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
After failing to anticipate Hamas's victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and...
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Israel should not fall into Hamas' trap and allow the Israeli public's inflamed emotions to overrun a well reasoned and carefully executed course of action.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
The question has to arise. Why is it acceptable to enter into a cease-fire with Hezbollah but not Hamas? If anything, Hezbollah is more militant than Hamas.
AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 01.25.2008 | Home
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Hamas-backed militants driving bulldozers knocked down more fortifications Friday along the Gaza-Egypt border _ a brazen cha...
AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blo...
Reuters | Nidal al-Mughrabi | Posted 01.18.2008 | Home
Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the coastal strip on Friday in an intensified campaign to halt ...
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media
Israel's ratio of combatants to civilians killedis better than that of the U.S. and any other country combating terrorism, yet this has hardly been reported by the international press.
Daniel Levy | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics
It is not every day that an American president turns to find an Israeli prime minister whose arm is outstretched displaying a Post-it sticker with the words "twist here."
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Some of the more conservative American Jewish institutions are coming around to acceptance of the two-state solution, ending the occupation, and sharing Jerusalem.
AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 11.24.2007 | Home
Hamas said Saturday it was shocked Arab countries have decided to attend next week's U.S.-backed Mideast peace summit and underlined its opposition wi...
Raghida Dergham | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics
If Damascus wants to stir up the mechanisms of escalating resistance against Israel, then it should do so on the Syrian-Israeli border.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics
Hillary used her Foreign Affairs essay to move her position further away than ever from the Neo Cons' "democratize the world by Monday" position. McCain showed that he forgot nothing and learned less.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics
Will this effort end up in the same trash bin as the rest, allowing experts like me to continue arguing the same points about why there should be peace?
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Raghida Dergham | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics