HAIFA: Contrary to the hopes of many, the end of the Second World War and the shock of the Nazi atrocities did not mean the end of war and genocide. Indeed, the decades following it have been rife with bloody conflicts in which entire population (...)
HAIFA: Ever since the Six Day War of June 1967, a small number of Israelis, not all on the left, supported the idea of two states as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most of their compatriots rejected it, as did the Palestinians. (...)
TEL AVIV: During the military operations in Gaza, code-named "Fused Lead (after a Hanukkah song about a small spinning top - one of that holiday's symbols - made out of fused lead), we Israelis have been reminded of a fundamental fact: Gaza is not (...)
Police investigations, commissions of inquiry examining the errors committed during the Lebanon war of 2006, repugnance at former President Moshe Katsav's alleged sex crimes, and now Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement that, with charges of (...)
Finally, the long-sought truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has become a reality.
Reaching this uneasy state has not been easy. For months, wise and responsible people had exhorted Israel to accept the ceasefire that the Hamas (...)
Ten years ago, on Israel's 50th anniversary, the peace process begun by the path-breaking Oslo accord, reached by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1993, established the legitimacy of two peoples' national existence in their shared homeland on (...)