Obama In Flux
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.
GlobalPost | Michael Goldfarb | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books
Michael Goldfarb GlobalPost An excerpt from Michael Goldfarb's new book, "Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolutio...
Peace Process | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
JERUSALEM -- Sometimes a quitter really does quit for good. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced last week that he wouldn't...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
For more than a week, Saudi Arabia has been carrying out military operations on its remote southern border to punish Houthi rebels from Yemen who crossed over and attacked one of its patrols.
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...
Posted 11.12.2009 | World
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian election officials on Thursday recommended calling off January's presidential vote, a step that could result in emb...
Stephen Funk | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
DAM is making connections and creating infrastructure and camaraderie with many groups so we are better able to work together across international borders against our common struggles.
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.
Kevin Coval | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
"The night of Nov. 9... was the fulfillment of a dream." German Chancellor Angela Merkel today concrete stretches into sky, twenty-six feet high. ...
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.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders are full of self-congratulation. But they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank.
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.
Kiri Westby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Although I have made friends with fear, I have not conquered it. Fear arises as an instinct. But the more we work with it, the less it controls our actions.
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...
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.
New York Times | Ethan Bronner and Mark Landler | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Thursday that he would not seek re-election, the latest sign that the Obama administration's drive...
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...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
CAIRO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S. stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesda...
Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Even the most apolitical tourist in Israel cannot escape noticing the contrast between a visible show of opulence there and an inner bitterness and doubt about the possibility of peace.
Bradley Burston | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
For Israel's sake, for the Palestinians' sake, and for the good of his presidency, the administration must radically reassess its approach to the Mideast conflict.
Washington Post | Howard Schneider | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials on Sunday criticized the United States for what one called "back-pedaling" on demands that Israel stop settlement c...
Haaretz | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
Following the arrest of a West Bank settler suspected of multiple murders and bomb attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel ...
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
JERUSALEM — The Palestinians on Sunday accused U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of undermining progress toward Mideast peace talks...
William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | World