Given my Judeo-Christian roots, I've long wanted to visit "The Holy Land." The U.S.-supported Israeli attack on Gaza this past winter lent urgency to that longing. In mid-May I joined a delegation going to Israel and the West Bank of the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian...
JERUSALEM -- Six months after Israel's devastating assault on Hamas, its south-western border with Gaza has not been as quiet in a decade -- only two rockets in the past six weeks on Israeli towns. Yet, the plight of Palestinian civilians in Gaza continues to haunt...
JERUSALEM -- "Reckless," "cavalier," "unscrupulous," "petty politician, not statesman"…these and such epithets applied to Benjamin Netanyahu by friends and foes alike -- not that he ended up with many friends -- when he was...
JERUSALEM - Beneath the towering eight-meter concrete slabs, an army jeep patrols the Israeli side of the "security wall" that cuts through Palestinian territory, dividing the occupied West Bank from Israel. Suddenly, a soccer ball flies over the wall and...
A July 17 article at the Guardian leads with "In preparation for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, two Israeli missile-class warships have sailed through the Suez Canal 10 days after a submarine capable of launching a nuclear missile strike." The fifth...
