Israeli leader warns Hamas of 'iron fist'
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops advanced into Gaza suburbs for the first time early Tuesday, residents said, hours after Prime Minister E...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops advanced into Gaza suburbs for the first time early Tuesday, residents said, hours after Prime Minister E...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 02.11.2009 | World
Dear G-d/Allah, It's me Yvonne, are you there? As you know since December 27th, 2008, Hamas and Israel have been at war. Over 800 Palestinians and...
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.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
Despite the current contention that the Arab-Israeli conflict is rooted in politics and economics -- it is naive and dangerous to overlook its religious roots.
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.06.2009 | World
Counting on international pressure to bring a quick end to the Israeli onslaught may prove to be misplaced as Israel is now determined to never allow a return to the status quo ante.
AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and JASON KEYSER | Posted 02.05.2009 | Home
GAZA CITY, Gaza _ Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire Monday and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 02.04.2009 | World
The United States waged war on Afghanistan and Iraq after terrorists killed so many innocent civilians on 9/11. Israel waged war on Hamas after rocke...
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
One of Barack Obama's chief spokesmen repeated on Sunday that it would be counterproductive for the president-elect to weigh too deeply into the crisi...
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
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...
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.22.2009 | World
Hamas has ordered its militants to hold their fire for 24 hours and has expressed interest in renewing its truce with Israel, Al Jazeera reports. "Ham...
AP | LAURIE COPANS and IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
SDEROT, Israel — Raz Elraz, for the first time, will be able to take his 14-month-old son to a playground in this rocket-scarred Israeli town. A...
Gershom Gorenberg | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
Last week, the head of Hamas's Political Bureau gave an interview to a Palestinian paper that should have been read as an act of public diplomacy. In the West, though, it has hardly been read at all.
Vanity Fair | David Rose | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 02.12.2009 | World