Jerusalem

Pushing right-wing American politics -- in Israel Pushing right-wing American politics -- in Israel

Are Israeli politicians increasingly beholden to conservative Americans who lavish them with financial support and political pressure?
By Gregory Levey Aug 21, 2008

  • The Obama show lands in Israel

    He got a rock-star reception here, but an intriguing question lingers: Which U.S. presidential candidate is better for this country?
    By Aluf Benn July 24, 2008

  • No peace for Obama on Israel

    He's facing nervous Jewish voters in Florida, attacks by Joe Lieberman and smear tactics in a political war that threatens his campaign.
    By Gregory Levey July 2, 2008

  • When my finger was on the button for Israel

    I was a young law student applying for a part-time internship. To my amazement, I was soon casting votes at the U.N. and working for Ariel Sharon.
    By Gregory Levey April 22, 2008

  • The right wing's Jerusalem gambit

    A new coalition of religious hard-liners with ties to President Bush seeks to scuttle any plans for dividing Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians.
    By Gregory Levey December 13, 2007

  • The real two-state solution

    President Bush's peace summit for Israelis and Palestinians ignores a painful truth -- one that we are already living in the Middle East.
    By Aluf Benn November 26, 2007

  • Spinning the disaster in Gaza

    Bush and Olmert scramble to prop up Abbas, but the Hamas takeover boosts Iran and leaves hopes for a Palestinian state in tatters.
    By Aluf Benn June 20, 2007

  • Inside America's powerful Israel lobby

    AIPAC's three-day summit included fiery evangelical oratory, adoration for Dick Cheney -- and new plans for going after Iran.
    By Gregory Levey March 16, 2007

  • Israel's surge of despair

    Top Israeli officials admit last summer's war against Hezbollah was a failure -- and denounce President Bush's actions in the Middle East.
    By Gregory Levey February 15, 2007

  • Israel's Arab problem hits home

    Tensions are rising between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens -- and could affect the chances for peace, or wider war, in the Middle East.
    By Gregory Levey January 29, 2007

  • Fence? Security barrier? Apartheid wall?

    Israel is spending $1 billion on a structure to seal itself off from the West Bank. But the question of what to call it provokes an explosive debate.
    By Eric Boehlert August 1, 2003

  • The Salon Interview: Steve Earle

    The radical country rocker and composer of "John Walker's Blues" blasts the war on Iraq, denounces the death penalty and explains why ex-druggies believe in God.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 13, 2002

  • A cool cowpoke gets political

    Steve Earle, a new disc under his belt, talks about his tumultuous career -- a hair-raising ride that has included many wives, an ugly romance with heroin, and watching a man die.
    By Mark J. Miller August 29, 2002

  • A wall of hostility

    More than 200,000 Palestinians live in East Jerusalem and share many of Israel's freedoms. But the arrest of a Hamas cell there has exposed a deep, angry divide.
    By Ferry Biedermann August 24, 2002

  • Hopeless in Jerusalem

    "Promises," a documentary about children growing up in the middle of the Arab-Israeli conflict, reveals early lessons in hatred and a grim absence of optimism.
    By Janelle Brown December 12, 2001

  • Revenge bombing kills 15

    Palestinian groups vie for credit for the pizza-restaurant blast that left hundreds injured.
    By Flore de Préneuf August 10, 2001

  • Clock running out on Clinton's Mideast legacy

    Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat makes a last-minute trip to Washington to clarify a Clinton-proposed peace deal with Israel.
    By Flore de Préneuf January 3, 2001

  • Florida voters in Israel look on in amazement

    As their absentee ballots float through the airmail ether, American Jews abroad are thrilled at how significant their votes might be.
    By Flore de Préneuf November 13, 2000

  • "It's just something on paper"

    Palestinians and Israelis alike question the outcome of Clinton's Middle East peace summit.
    By Flore de Préneuf October 18, 2000

  • War in the Middle East

    The Israeli army responds after two soldiers are lynched in the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
    By Flore de Preneuf October 13, 2000

  • The sound of silence

    Heartsick over the bloodshed in Israel, liberal American Jews are so far paralyzed by a conflict in which Palestinians are aggressors as well as victims.
    By Samuel G. Freedman October 3, 2000

  • Israel, up against the wall

    The Jewish nation must decide who's in charge: The religion, the state or all of the above.
    By Samuel G. Freedman June 22, 2000

  • Pilgrimage and public relations

    Pope John Paul's historic visit to Israel is supposed to spread a message of peace, but Israeli and Palestinian spinmeisters are standing by to read in support of their causes.
    By Flore de Preneuf March 22, 2000

  • A conversation with Elie Wiesel

    The author of "And the Sea Is Never Full" discusses his work, the Middle East, Rwanda and his friend Primo Levi.
    By Jill Priluck January 5, 2000

  • Jerusalem braces for Christian pilgrims

    Hordes of tourists are coming to the holy city for millennial celebrations, but a clash between Orthodox and secular Jews has created a ban on Christmas in the city's kosher hotels.
    By Flore de Preneuf December 23, 1999
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