SHEIKH SA'AD, East Jerusalem -- A traffic light, yet no traffic at all. In fact, a traffic light... for pedestrians only. And even they move little. There are restrictions on walking out of this village (pop. 3,000). The 1,200 villagers who carry Palestinian identity...
JERUSALEM - Israel's easing of its land blockade of Gaza is unlikely to lessen international pressure for a change in its policies towards the Palestinians. Nor can Israel be expected to give up its battle to undermine Hamas' control of the Gaza Strip. On Thursday, a...
JERUSALEM - What exactly happened on the high seas off the Gaza-Israel coast remains in murky waters.Already though, the implications of Israel's assault on the peace flotilla of civilian vessels headed with humanitarian relief supplies for the besieged Palestinian...
JERUSALEM - In Israel and Palestine memory is a split matter, depending on which side of the map you come from. Especially this May, as Israeli and Palestinian leaders restart negotiating a border acceptable to their peoples. In the past 20 years, both peoples have...
JERUSALEM -- Noam Chomsky, a fierce espouser of left-wing causes, is widely admired in countries which parade themselves as "democracies." Apparently, the admiration does not extend to Israel. The 81-year-old world famous linguist from the Massachusetts...
JERUSALEM - "What kind of celebration is this," said Bat-El, 22, engulfed in a sea of blue- and-white Israeli flags in a huge procession marking Israel's self-celebrated Jerusalem Day, the anniversary by the Hebrew calendar of Israel's conquest of East...
JERUSALEM - There's a Jerusalem saying that the city wears too many hats – Jewish hats, Muslim hats, Christian hats – so it's difficult to get at its brain. As Israelis and Palestinians wrestle for the right to wear the prime Jerusalem hat, U.S. President Barack Obama...
JERUSALEM -- As the world grapples with controlling the spread of nuclear weapons, it's a time of complex choices in a Middle East edging between possible confrontation with Iran and possible movement towards Israeli-Palestinian peace. It's also a time of troubled...
JERUSALEM - There was a time when Israel was held in contempt by its neighbors for its over-liberal ways. They felt it did not "belong" in the Middle East. There's been a twist in this negative perception of the possibility of the Jewish state fitting into...
SILWAN, East Jerusalem - Outside the Bedouin-style protest tent in the heart of this Palestinian neighborhood, the anger is palpable, but controlled. Muhammad (surname undisclosed) turns to an Israeli TV reporter: "Would you agree to have your neighbor’s house...
