NEW YORK: Few people vacation on the West Bank, but if they did they might head for Taybeh, a hilltop village clustered around a church whose charm trumps the Israeli checkpoints that have to be negotiated to get there. The air is good, the stones (...)
TEL AVIV: A cool breeze came in from the sea, knocking over salt shakers at the Zorik Café. It was a beautiful day in Israel–clear skies, brilliant light, and the volleyball players were out. Young couples in low-slung jeans sipped smoothies and ate (...)
JERUSALEM: One Israeli commentator, Yossi Sarid, recently mused that "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a black hole that swallows up goodwill ambassadors through the ages".
I can't argue with that. Cold wars come and go, new technologies (...)
NEW YORK: For over a century now, Zionism and Arab nationalism have failed to find an accommodation in the Holy Land. Both movements attempted to fill the space left by collapsed empire, and it has been left to the quasi-empire, the United States, (...)
WASHINGTON: Pressure on President Obama to recast the failed American approach to Israel-Palestine is building from former senior officials whose counsel he respects.
Following up on a letter dated 6 November 2008, which was handed to Obama late (...)
ESFAHAN, Iran: At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque called Al-Aqsa, is a synagogue where Jews of this ancient city gather at dawn. Over the entrance is a banner saying: Congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the (...)
A three-minute Palestinian movie says what needs to be said about estrangement and violence in the Middle East. It features a woman driving around Jerusalem asking for directions to the adjacent West Bank town of Ramallah. She is met by dismay, (...)