Are Israeli politicians increasingly beholden to conservative Americans who lavish them with financial support and political pressure?
By Gregory Levey Aug 21, 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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Palestinian groups vie for credit for the pizza-restaurant blast that left hundreds injured.
By Flore de Préneuf
August 10, 2001
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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
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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
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Palestinians and Israelis alike question the outcome of Clinton's Middle East peace summit.
By Flore de Préneuf
October 18, 2000
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The Israeli army responds after two soldiers are lynched in the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
By Flore de Preneuf
October 13, 2000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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