Israel is no longer the beleaguered outpost of democracy it once was, but an all-conquering and expanding Goliath. And in the long run, Israel is no friend of Uncle Sam.
PM Yizhak Rabin's words on Gazans while an ambassador, before he became a Nobel Peace Prize winner, seem to have been echoed ...
Thousands of Western citizens joined the Israeli military in its war on Gaza that killed over 72,000 Palestinians.
A draft of a constitution for a future Palestinian state made public this week cemented in law the pay-for slay program, ...
Sadeqa Johnson's "Keeper of Lost Children" reconstructs the city in 1948. "Philly is in my soul. When I sit down and paint pictures of historical moments in Philadelphia, I get to go home,” she said.
Israel has taken steps ‌to help settlers acquire land in the occupied West Bank and widen its powers in parts of the territory where Palestinians have some self-rule - measures they said aimed to ...
Sri Lanka has neither fared anywhere as well as it was expected to do at Independence in 1948, nor even after its spectacular ...
Returning to the origins of modern Middle Eastern warfare, we trace how British withdrawal from Mandatory Palestine opened ...
"The pilots came in too low over Lake Mead. They misjudged their altitude. They hit the water and they sank," according to ...
The back-story of the Middle East conflict, explored by leading experts. This episode covers 1945 to 1949, when Israel was born and 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes.
At the time, it referred to the catastrophic failure of a war launched to eliminate any possibility of Jewish statehood and, ...
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