This is pretty horrific. A group of unarmed Palestinians (and some Israeli supporters) were demonstrating this weekend against a piece of the separation wall that divides a Palestinian town in two.
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Stark differences between U.S. and Israeli policy toward peace talks with the Palestinians emerged clearly Thursday in the first mee...
Mort Zuckerman | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
A Palestinian state cannot be created by terrorism. It can be created through the reformation of political and economic institutions so that they reflect democracy, market economics, and real actions to confront terrorism.
Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
Observing Passover, the holiday celebrating the liberation of Jewish slaves from Egypt roughly 3,200 years ago, has become a problem for many Jews this year.
Bradley Burston | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
It was late, maybe midnight When we opened the door for Elijah Fully expecting Aunt Ida, in sable. But it was Pharaoh that walked in to the wine and the whining.
Murray Fromson | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
From the podium of the National Assembly in Ankara, Obama spoke not only to Turks, but to the entire Muslim world and he carved out an image of a global statesman.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.04.2009 | Entertainment
Pomegranates and Myrrh is a sensitive film by one Palestinian filmmaker about one Palestinian point of view. However, some in the Arab world are calling for the movie to be banned.
Michal Lewin-Epstein | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
Israel has the potential to become a regional soft-power player. Its political values: democracy, transparency and accountability, are very attractive, and seem to be appealing to the Palestinians.
Bradley Burston | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
There are two sides in the Middle East conflict: Jews and Arabs who want compromise, and Jews and Arabs who want to demonize and eradicate their neighbors.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Riots erupted between border police and Israeli-Arab residents Tuesday in the northern Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm following a demonstration by Jewish...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
Investigators reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Council Monday enumerated a number of human rights violations committed by Israel during it...
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers wore T-shirts with a pregnant woman in the cross-hairs of a rifle and the slogan "1 Shot 2 Kills," adding to a grow...
Art Levine | Posted 04.15.2009 | World
The news that right-wing parties are forming a coalition likely dooms the prospects for Mideast peace any time soon.
Bradley Burston | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
The way forward in the Middle East: Keep back channels open to Tehran, while supporting Netanyahu, should he pick up with Syria.
Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
With Hertz operating in every major Middle Eastern country, one would think Hertz would recognize how utterly offensive its map is and immediately repeal its use.
Fay Ferguson | Posted 03.29.2009 | World
Bleak and hostile, al-Tanf has been home for the past three years to hundreds of Palestinian refugees -- close to half of them children -- who fled persecution in Iraq.
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 03.27.2009 | World
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic militants of Hamas and the moderates of Fatah have never had more compelling reasons to repair the rift betw...
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
Under the terror of jets and shelling, the Israeli siege of Beirut, Darwish is making coffee.
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 03.10.2009 | World
All three of Israel's candidates for Prime Minister belong to an era that should be receding behind us, not popping up in our ballot boxes again and again.
AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Armed Hamas police broke into a Gaza warehouse packed with U.N. humanitarian supplies and seized thousands of blankets and food pack...
TIME | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
As Israel prepared to launch its assault into Gaza in late December, it braced for substantial casualties among its own troops. Commanders warned thei...
Amy York Rubin | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
From their merging of religious tradition with daily life to their personal and historical narratives, the similarities between Muslims and Jews living in Israel is almost tragically comical.
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 03.04.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel threatened "harsh and disproportionate" retaliation after Gaza militants fired at least 10 rockets and mortar shells across t...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
Israel's latest assault on Gaza showed a very weak attempt at avoiding civilian deaths and injuries or the destruction of infrastructure. Similarly, Hamas rockets showed lack of concern for Israeli civilians.
J.D. Lasica | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
The Israeli occupation is nowhere more evident than in the heart of this once thriving metropolis, whose hillsides hold 166,000 Palestinian residents but whose streets are a ghost town patrolled by the IDF.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.20.2009 | World