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Accomplishing Palestinian Statehood Might Have to Be Unilateral

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.20.2009 | World


Daoud Kuttab

If reaching an independent Palestinian state is in the national interest of the United States, as President Obama has said, then it would be ill advised to deny that inevitability to Palestinians.

A Nobel Prayer

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.

Avigdor Lieberman To Resign If Charged

AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister promised Monday to step down if he is charged after police recommended that he be indicte...

Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Dead Palestinian Babies, Bombed Mosques

Haaretz | Posted 04.20.2009 | World


Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel...

It's Time for a Sustained Focus on a Lasting Middle East Peace

Jim Wallis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

What we continue to lack is the kind of real political solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that could finally make a "ceasefire" endure.

While Gaza Burns, the World Watches

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.09.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

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.

Is the Peace Process Irreversible?

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 01.18.2009 | World


Daoud Kuttab

Lame-duck Palestinian, Israeli and US leaders are making serious effort these days to ensure that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process enters an irreversible track before they leave office.

"Undivided" Allegiance: The Meaning of Obama's AIPAC Moment

Sandy Tolan | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics


Sandy Tolan

Obama's pledge that "Jerusalem must remain undivided" is a smackdown to decades of Palestinians' dreams and demands that East Jerusalem be the capital of their own state.

Nothing Like a Fresh Israeli Offensive to Bring Out the Jew in Me

Russ Wellen | Posted 01.03.2009 | World


Russ Wellen

Whenever Israel launches an offensive against Palestine, it brings the Jewish in me to the fore.