JERUSALEM: With international attention distracted by Iran and Syria, Israel's fateful entanglement in the West Bank hardly gets a mention in the news these days.
Over the years, much has been written about the now 45-year-old Occupation's (...)
JERUSALEM — Two decades ago, Naguib Mahfouz, the late, great Nobel literature laureate, speaking to the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post outlined a vision of close Egyptian-Israeli relations if Israel worked to solve the Palestinian issue.
''If (...)
Jerusalem--While controversial in Egypt and abroad, the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP)'s ''success'' in the recent parliamentary elections is being quietly applauded by many Israelis.
Former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Eli Shaked, said (...)
Jerusalem--Israeli refugee rights advocates have voiced grave concern about an edict issued by a group of rabbis banning the renting of apartments near Tel Aviv to African asylum seekers.
The edict has already resulted in some refugees being (...)
Jerusalem--In exclusive remarks to Al-Masry Al-Youm, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theopholis III, says he is unfazed by the withdrawal of the Coptic Church from the Middle East Council of Churches in a dispute that has (...)
Jerusalem--At long last, Middle East peace talks will restart on Wednesday, this time with a new twist: Israelis and Palestinians will conduct their negotiations without actually speaking to one another.
Instead, breaking a year and a half of (...)
Jerusalem-–During last year's Israeli elections, far-right candidate Avigdor Lieberman suggested that Arab members of the Knesset should be put to death for talking to Hamas. "Maybe this gives you shivers," said one of Lierbman's political (...)
Jerusalem – Border walls are the latest fever in the Middle East. It's not only Egypt, Israel is now playing its trump card in the escalating battle to stop asylum seekers and refugees reaching the country from Sinai. It plans to erect a system of (...)
Ramallah–The possible release of Marwan Barghouti, the imprisoned West Bank leader and self-styled symbol of the second intifada, could usher in a badly needed new era for Palestinians--or prove another devastating disappointment.
Barghouti's allies (...)