I am a Jewish-American man in solidarity with Palestinian people. I am in solidarity with Israeli and American and all people who work and risk their lives and livelihood for justice.
Ira Chernus | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
It is those U.S. moves meant to contain the power of Iran that are the main stumbling block on the path to a U.S.-brokered two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Guardian | Ian Black and Ian Cobain | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
Israel received an uncomfortable reminder of international anger over the Gaza war today when lawyers representing 16 Palestinians asked a London cour...
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
UNITED NATIONS — The head of the Arab League and the Egyptian foreign minister on Friday urged President Barack Obama to present his own outline...
wsj.com | EHUD BARAK | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
This week the United Nation's Human Rights Council produced a 600-page report alleging that Israel carried out war crimes in Gaza. The Goldstone Repor...
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel said Friday it will construct hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before any slowdown in building, an anno...
AP | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
PARIS — France's foreign minister says an agreement on freezing Jewish settlements must be reached for international Mideast peace efforts to su...
foxnews.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
President Obama is expected to moderate a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in late Se...
Hagit Ofran | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
Following the meeting between US Senator Mitchell and Israeli PM Netanyahu, it seems that Israel and the US are getting close to some kind of agreemen...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
Jan Helin, the editor-in-chief of the Swedish newspaper which printed an article accusing Israeli soldiers of killing Palestinians and harvested their...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
Hamas has screened its first feature film in Gaza, Al Arabiya reports. The film was set and filmed in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Amid the actio...
Menachem Kaiser | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
Open, visible identification with any group whose rules and/or opinions are stated or implicitly assumed is a responsibility, or, conversely, a burden.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
Richard Goldstone knows that unless his report condemns Israel, at least as forcefully as it condemns Hamas, it will never be accepted by the UN Human Rights Council.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
TRIESTE, Italy — A broad international coalition urged Israel on Friday to freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank and lift its blockade...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
15-year-old Palestinian Raed Sawalha was found hung from a tree in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, having been accused by his own family of consorting...
Time | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
About an hour after Barack Obama's excellent Cairo speech, I met with Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, at his office here to talk about the speech ...
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be looking to build a coalition against Iran and exchange ideas on advancing Middle E...
Haaretz | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Arab states are revising elements of a 2002 peace plan to encourage Israel to agree to the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state, the Lon...
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Hamas directed gunmen to eliminate political opponents and suspected collaborators under the cover of Israel's military of...
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel has successfully tested a high-tech system designed to protect civilians from rocket attacks by militant groups in Gaza and s...
Jonathan Peled | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
Today, Arab leaders interested in committing themselves to peace with Israel must not ignore one of Sadat's most overlooked accomplishments: understanding the need to secure support from the Israeli public.
Bradley Burston | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media
Originally appeared on haaretz.com I was just in the States, speaking to members of Ameinu, an organization which, the times notwithstanding, remai...
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
How can I go to bed at night knowing that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit probably has no bed?
Wajahat Ali | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
Waltz with Bashir, an autobiographical "animated documentary" from Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, offers a sobering reminder of Israel's current, brutal military offensive in Gaza.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.07.2009 | World
Any ceasefire must include an ironclad commitment by Egypt to cooperate fully with Israel to shut Hamas' tunnel network once and for all whatever Hamas' political or military wings decide tomorrow in Cairo.
Kevin Coval | Posted 11.03.2009 | World