World May 17, 2021
After years of quiet, Israeli-Palestinian conflict exploded. Why now?
by Patrick Kingsley
A little-noticed police action in Jerusalem last month was one of several incidents that led to the current crisis.
World May 17, 2021
Israel strikes on Gaza continue as U.N. chief urges halt to conflict
The Israeli military killed at least 42 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the worst daily toll in almost a week of deadly clashes.
World May 16, 2021
Israel pounds Gaza, flattening building housing AP and Al Jazeera
by Patrick Kingsley and Vivian Yee
Israel claimed that "military intelligence" agents of Hamas, the Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers, were in the building.
Commentary / World May 10, 2021
The A-word (apartheid) gives Palestinians a new path to normalcy
by Hussein Ibish
The new HRW report relies on international legal definitions of apartheid and draws a direct connection between Israeli policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and inside Israel.
World / Social Issues Jul 30, 2020
A second wave of coronavirus infections sweeping the Israeli-occupied West Bank is fueling fears of a surge in overcrowded Palestinian refugee camps where social distancing is next to impossible. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, the Palestinian Authority quickly imposed a lockdown ...
Commentary / World Jan 31, 2020
The world's hypocrisy about Israel's occupation of the West Bank
by Eli Lake
Jewish settlements are not the primary obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
World / Politics Jan 31, 2020
Jared Kushner says he hopes Israel waits on sovereignty steps in West Bank till after polls
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Washington wants Israel to wait until after its March 2 election before making any moves toward settlement annexation in the West Bank, following the announcement of a U.S. peace plan. Kushner, an architect of the peace proposal hailed ...
World Jun 23, 2019
Jared Kushner's $50 billion 'peace to prosperity' plan faces broad Arab rejection
U.S. President Donald Trump's economic vision as part of the wider plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been met with contempt, repudiation and exasperation in the Arab world, even as some in the Persian Gulf called for it to be given a chance. The ...
World / Politics Apr 8, 2019
Netanyahu plays pre-election Trump card, vowing to annex settlements
Palestinians voiced alarm while Israelis weighed the gravity on Sunday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sudden election promise to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Some Israeli commentators saw the right-wing leader's pledge on Saturday, as Tuesday's national ballot approaches, as mainly a ...
Business Nov 20, 2018
Short-term rental company Airbnb Inc. said it will remove listings in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, enclaves that most world powers consider illegal for taking up land where Palestinians seek statehood. "We concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli settlements in the ...
World / Crime & Legal Sep 17, 2018
Palestinian stabs U.S.-Israeli citizen to death at West Bank mall, is captured
A Palestinian fatally stabbed an American-born Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank on Sunday then was himself shot and seized by armed civilians who gave chase. The victim, Ari Fuld, 45, was well-known among settlers as a pro-Israel advocate. According to his Twitter account, ...