Ah the joys of high-speed rail: efficient, comfortable, good for the environment and great for business. It’s easy to understand why Israelis who sit in three...
Just before midnight on August 9, the bulldozers moved in and destruction of Jerusalem’s best-known Islamic cemetery was once again under way. The controversy surrounding the...
Israeli troops have begun demolishing a concrete wall erected nine years ago to protect the Jewish settlement of Gilo on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem. The...
JUDAISM AND Islam developed with only marginal reference to Christianity, but Christianity’s evolution has been entangled with the two other monotheisms — as essential foils. That...
The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline. There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well,...
NABI SALAH, Occupied West Bank, Jul 23, 2010 (IPS) – Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance, and the Israeli military is increasingly...
By Ofer Petersburg Source: Ynet News An unlikely benefactor. An Ashkelon resident who made a fortune in the European real estate business has decided to pay...
Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable...
On 22 May, 2010, the Schmidt Girls School in East Jerusalem flagrantly fired a Palestinian female teacher, Nadera al Nimmari, reportedly for wearing a headscarf. According...
The government’s efforts to avoid a thorough and credible investigation of the flotilla affair seem more and more like a farce. Haaretz Editorial The government’s efforts...