Politics in play amid fight
The Israeli government's decision to launch a punishing offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip was triggered by developments on the ground, but it came as two political clocks were...
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Still a minefield for U.S. presidents
JERUSALEM—Like so many times in the past, a flare-up of violence on the Israeli-Palestinian front—or between Israel and Hezbollah militants on the border with Lebanon—could focus Obama's attention on the...
In Mideast, guarded hope for an even hand
If there were any concerns voiced by some Israelis and American Jews during the election campaign that Barack Obama might tilt more toward the Arab world while trying to broker...
‘I yelled … that there’s a settler hurling rocks’
(The headline as published has been corrected in this text.) Joel Gulledge, a student at Chicago's Northeastern Illinois University, was in the West Bank this summer as a volunteer with...
‘An ill wind’ in Israel
A pipebomb attack on an Israeli professor and critic of Jewish settlements has led Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to warn of a new militant Jewish underground like the one that...
Jewish site transcends borders
Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, launched an Arabic Web site this year to combat Holocaust denial in the Arab world. Because the Nazi extermination of European Jews during World War...
Best things in life free, except for McCartney
Israelis by the thousands are snapping up tickets for a newly booked concert in Tel Aviv by Paul McCartney, 43 years after an appearance here by the Beatles was canceled,...
Middle East, Africa
Last week we covered Rome with Christine Spolar, Moscow with Alex J. Rodriguez and London with Tom Hundley, now posted in Chicago. This week we're on to the Middle East...
A collective ‘yech’ from Israeli newspapers
American businessman Morris Talansky's descriptions of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a high-living politician who had a penchant for cash payments and expensive cigars and watches brought expressions of...
Gunman acted alone, Israel says
An investigation by Israeli authorities into a Palestinian attack on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem last month has found that the gunman acted alone and was not sent by a...