Israel Palestine

The tear that exposes Israel’s democratic crisis - opinion

Israeli man arrested and kippah torn by the police, illustrates the colonization of minds and reflects the decline of the idea of coexistence in Israel-Palestine.

DR. ALEX Sinclair's kippah, after police cut off the Palestinian flag.
Workers and volunteers on an archaeological dig sift through dirt at Alexandrion/Sartaba in the Jordan Valley.

Israel digs up the West Bank – and reignites a battle over history

 Grade 12 Arabic textbook teaching a poem praising children in Gaza for fighting and dying as martyrs to liberate Palestine.

Tunisia’s schoolbooks celebrate Hitler, omit Holocaust, research finds - IMPACT-se

View of an illustration depicting captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in downtown Caracas.

How media decides which deaths count and which events matter - analysis


Land reclamation and 3D infrastructure to transform Israeli-Palestinian relations - opinion

Let expansive imagination secure the dignity of the Palestinians, the Israelis, and the entire Middle East.

 NICKOLAY MLADENOV, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, visits a solar energy project at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, in 2019.

What will happen to Israel if the Palestinian Authority falls? - opinion

It is unnerving to think of what would happen if Israel loses its source of security coordination in the West Bank.

 PA LEADER Mahmoud Abbas speaks during his visit to Jenin, last week.

Netanyahu, Biden strike blow to already weak Abbas, PA - analysis

If Israel and the US want to retain it as a legitimate diplomatic partner then it has to do more to legitimately strengthen it.

Gunmen attend a funeral of two Palestinians, who were killed during an Israeli raid, in Nablus in the West Bank July 7,2023.

The great challenge: The solution has to come from us, not the outside - opinion

It is possible that we have not suffered enough to come to terms with the need for a solution.

 ISRAELI ARMY vehicles drive through Jenin, on Tuesday. There is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says the writer

'Ending that occupation' without a solid peace agreement is impossible. Here's why - opinion

Using legal and humanitarian arguments to justify Palestinian demands ignores Israel’s legitimate claims to Judea and Samaria and its security needs. 

 POLICE AND rescue forces are on the scene of a car-ramming terror attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Resistance to ‘the occupation’ is used to justify terrorism, says the writer

IDF operations harm Israeli public health - study

Israeli scientists detect upswings in heart rate and stress and less sleep, especially in southern residents, during 2021 Operation Guardian of the Walls.

 SECURITY AND rescue personnel take cover as a siren sounds, warning of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, on Thursday.

UNESCO votes to reinstate US as member

US law forbids Washington from funding UN bodies that have admitted Palestine as a full member. The American return to UNESCO was enabled after a waiver from Congress.

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Is an Israeli-Palestinian deal possible? - opinion

Following an April announcement by China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang, that China was ready to facilitate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

 CHINESE PREMIER Li Qiang receives Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, last week

Clarity of intentions, actions of consequence is what is required - opinion

Without finding the moral courage and fortitude to take such actions, the situation could become much worse than it already is.

 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the PA leadership, in Ramallah. No president should be in office for so long and certainly without a mandate from the people, says the writer.

Yet another UN farce - editorial

Reports like those by the COI ensure one thing: perpetuation of the conflict. The UN probe attacks the Jewish state while emboldening its enemies and detractors.

 Overview of the session of the Human Rights Council during the speech of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2020.