In April, Greg Eow wrote a letter to a professor he had met in graduate…

Last night in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah there was a vigil, a…

Last month I visited the Old Country for the first time. Poland. Land of my…

There are many signs lately of Hamas’s softening to the west, lately this Wall Street…

When did I first hear Noam Chomsky? In college probably, or in Minnesota in my…

Earlier today we posted Netanyahu’s equal-opportunity-sounding talking point, that Arabs can buy property in West Jerusalem, so why can’t Jews buy in East Jerusalem? Well Lara Friedman at Peace Now blows the argument out of the water: The problem with…

We’ve been following the news today that Israel has rejected the Obama’s administration’s demand to halt settlement expansion in East Jerusalem. Although this disagreement is taking place behind closed doors here in the US, in Israel/Palestine it is unfolding in…

I have a bit of a different take than Phil on Ehud Olmert’s oped in today’s Washington Post. I don’t see hints at the one state solution, but I do see Olmert trying the resuscitate one of the all-time great…

Ehud Olmert’s piece on the peace process in today’s Washington Post is accompanied by this cool graffiti off the Wall– and includes this telling phrase: “a complete freeze on settlement construction — impossible to completely enforce.” My policy is to…

Ira Glunts writes: Did you see the editorial in Ha’aretz today? They think Obama should take his case directly to the Israeli public. Talk about Obamania!!! From the Hebrew comments I would say that the President would not be treated…