Re-Energizing The Two-State Solution To Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Yes, I'm running for President of Palestine in the next election. No, I don't expect to win. My goal is to get the real leaders to do their jobs and stop putzing around.
Yes, I'm running for President of Palestine in the next election. No, I don't expect to win. My goal is to get the real leaders to do their jobs and stop putzing around.
David Suissa | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
His words didn't smell like propaganda or activism. He spoke for moderate Palestinians like himself, and he spoke from his heart, not from talking points.
AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | Sports
PITTSBURGH — Federal attorneys want a judge to declare that Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Famer Mel Blount owes more than $631,000 in back taxes, ...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
The reason the United States continues to fail on the Israeli-Palestinian track is because of the power of the pro-Israel lobby -- not just AIPAC, but its friends and followers -- in Washington.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
If Hamas is no longer Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority is no longer an authority, what options do the Palestinians have?
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Sarah Palin seems to think that Israel should expand as much as it wants, with no regard whatsoever for the Palestinian people.
Rebecca Vilkomerson | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
The US government should examine the appropriateness of US non-profits receiving tax breaks for providing funds to Israeli settlements that undermine US foreign policy and hopes for peace in the Middle East.
Posted 11.13.2009 | World
JERUSALEM (Associated Press) -- Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man along the Gaza Strip border early Friday, both sides said, but the circumstanc...
David Halperin | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
It's hard to see how abandoning the Mideast conflict -- potentially sparking exactly the kind of violence we hope to avoid -- could be in our interests. And yet, that's what Thomas Friedman proposes we do.
Reuters | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian president on Wednesday resisted U.S. pressure for a resumption of peace talks with Israel, repeating h...
Christian Avard | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror. She made international headlines as she traveled to Iraq to visit her son stationed in the Sunni Triangle.
Noura Erakat | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Rather than condemn Israel's act of aggression, Congress added its name to a pungent piece of manipulative delusion: that Israel's onslaught of Gaza constituted an act of self-defense.
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — The chief Palestinian negotiator on Monday warned Israel that if it does not take peacemaking seriously, it will find itself dealing...
Heather Robinson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Mainstream media has helped to cloud perceptions of the true causes of suicide terrorism. They've reinforced the perception that suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism are in some sense arguably justifiable.
Wael Nawara | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
After 9/11 and the launching of "The War on Terror," which reportedly he opposed, Mjr. Hasan may have begun to develop an identity crisis.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
In the midst of discussions regarding possible scenarios following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to run for president, few have paid attention to the larger picture.
Queen Rania of Jordan | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
For me, and for so many other people around the world, the anniversary is bittersweet. As the people of Germany celebrate a wall coming down, the people of Palestine are overwrought by a wall going up.
David Harris | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Later this month, Norway's second largest university will consider a proposed boycott of Israel for developing "Zionist ideology and renouncing Palestinian history and identity."
nytimes.com | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out the same old scenes, with the same...
Henry Siegman | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
For now, blaming Palestinians for their misery is nothing more than a pretext for the continuation of a colonialist enterprise that every other democracy in the world has relegated to a shameful past.
David Suissa | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Can you imagine how transformational it would be if a high profile, "pro-Arab, pro-peace" organization pressured Palestinian leaders to dismantle the teaching of Jew-hatred in Palestinian society -- a hatred that has made a mockery of all moves toward peace?
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
The Israelis, the Americans, the international community and any proponent of a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict couldn't dream of finding a better Palestinian leader.
Stephen Funk | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
Dialogues Against Militarism hopes to connect antiwar activists and war resisters from the US with those in Israel/Palestine to work more collectively against the militarism of our societies.
Al Jazeera English | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election when elections are held in January, Palestinian officials said. "Th...
Daniel Machover | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
Personal attacks on Justice Richard Goldstone and his colleagues are a distraction from a proper analysis of their report's contents and from the clear need to build upon and act on its recommendations.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.20.2009 | World