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Rage and despair
Liberal Israelis and Palestinians say President Bush's embrace of Ariel Sharon's proposal may have killed the last chance for peace.
Turning into Israel?
Outraged by President Bush's embrace of Ariel Sharon and the bloody U.S. assault on Fallujah, the Arab world is linking America's occupation with Israel's. That's ominous.
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.
Accidental tourists
West Bank Palestinians tell their stories during a bus tour through Israel -- the country in which many of them grew up -- in an illuminating Sundance Channel documentary.
Over my dead body
Activists are flocking to the West Bank to serve as human shields, protecting Palestinians and protesting the Israeli occupation. Are they part of the solution -- or part of the problem?
In Gaza, blame turns toward Arafat
Economic chaos -- and a looming humanitarian crisis -- undermine both the Palestinian Authority and the intifada.
Fiddling while the Middle East burns
Bush's one-sided speech is just the latest chapter in a long history of U.S. ignorance, ill will and condescension toward the Palestinians -- and it's not going to help Israel, either.
Sharon tests Bush
By pushing the limits of what the president will accept, Sharon is buying time to complete his military strategy. But is he digging his own political grave?
Bloody Bethlehem
As wounded Palestinians hide in corpse-filled ambulances and militants bray defiance, Israel begins to withdraw from two Palestinian cities. But with hatred on both sides deeper than ever, does Powell's mission even have a chance?
The war of the camps
Israel says its invasion of Palestinian refugee camps is designed to stop terrorism and show militants they have nowhere to hide. Palestinians say innocent people are being killed and vow revenge.
Crumbling dreams of statehood
Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories this week, particularly the re-occupation of an entire city, are destroying any remaining semblance of Palestinian sovereignty.
Ordinary terrorists
Osama Bahar and Nabil Halabiyeh played soccer and practiced karate together. On Saturday, the best friends blew up themselves and 10 young Israelis. An exclusive portrait of two unlikely mass killers.
Colin Powell rolls up his sleeves
On his trip to the Middle East next week, Bush's secretary of state will face an escalating conflict that he never intended to mediate.
An eye for an eye
Forty-seven years ago, Ariel Sharon led a raid on a West Bank village that killed about 70 men, women and children, most of them civilians. The villagers have not forgotten.
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.
"It's just something on paper"
Palestinians and Israelis alike question the outcome of Clinton's Middle East peace summit.
Violence erupts in the Holy Land
Desperation fuels an ominous round of fighting in the Holy Land. Has the Mideast peace process finally blown apart?
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.
The myth weavers
Three leading leftist figures have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. Has the failure of their ideology forced them to fictionalize?
Palestinian refugees get wired
What can the Internet bring to a culture that has been scattered across the world?
Renewal of vows
Aided by a dying King Hussein, Israel's Netanyahu brings Israel back to where it was in the peace negotiations 18 months ago.
Why Clinton caved in to Israel
In one sign of the cost of to the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton has caved into the Israeli government and abandoned the peace process in the Middle East
Gloves off
Over the next two weeks, President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo a very public battle of wills over the future of Middle East peace.
Newsreal: Fish or cut bait
If he wants to save his proudest foreign policy accomplishment, President Clinton will have to face down Israel.
Newsreal: The end
Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with President Clinton next Tuesday will likely sink the Middle East peace process altogether.
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