Prisoner Exchange A Reflection On Mideast Disagreements
If there were a case that could illustrate the disagreement between Israel and the Palestinians, the Shalit prisoner exchange deal could be the one.
If there were a case that could illustrate the disagreement between Israel and the Palestinians, the Shalit prisoner exchange deal could be the one.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
Food has a special place in our hearts as Arabs, so Thanksgiving was the American holiday we most loved. Food symbolizes the essence of freedom, the ability to feed your family without fear.
Heather Robinson | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
Is it ethical to for Israel to make a prisoner exchange with Hamas, a body that denies the right of Israel to exist?
Adam Shapiro | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
My old friend Tom Perriello, I am afraid, has become like so many of his colleagues, a mere tool of a hard-right AIPAC agenda that has no business dictating American policy, as it did with the Goldstone resolution.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
The Shalit story is reminiscent of the way Americans become obsessed with crimes committed against whites while generally indifferent to identical crimes committed against people of color.
Eric Trager | Posted 11.27.2009 | World
Last week during a press conference in Beijing, President Barack Obama endorsed one of the most propagandized of pop theories regarding the Israeli-Pa...
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.
Ir Amim | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
I am able to see the strength and the might of this city and its residents. I pray for them out of amazement and appreciation. I close my eyes and ask that the city accept me as its daughter.
AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians asked the European Union on Monday to back their plan to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an inde...
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian drive to ask the U.N. Security Council to endorse a state unilaterally, put forward by a top negotiator Sunday, appear...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights both the inherent thirst for freedom and proclivity to hypocrisy ingrained in the human condition.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
It remains to be seen whether the elections will take place on time or, if they do, whether they will be held in Gaza as well as the West Bank.
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 ...
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Palestinians are going to require a regional approach. The Arab world needs to play a much larger role than it has, primarily as an import market and as a positive influence on the overall regional business environment.
James Zogby | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
Sunday, representatives of over three dozen Arab American and American Jewish organizations met in Washington to make clear their shared commitment to a comprehensive Middle East peace.
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside...
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
J Street, an advocacy and lobbying firm created 18 months ago, is holding its first annual conference beginning Sunday, with participation from about ...
GlobalPost | Sara Sorcher | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
By Sara Sorcher AWARTA and SUSYA, West Bank -- The olive branch may be a universal symbol for peace, but in the West Bank, the olive harvest bring...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.30.2009 | World