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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.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 17, 2004

  • 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.
    By Juan Cole April 16, 2004

  • 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

  • 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.
    By Heather Havrilesky March 31, 2003

  • 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?
    By Janelle Brown January 15, 2003

  • In Gaza, blame turns toward Arafat

    Economic chaos -- and a looming humanitarian crisis -- undermine both the Palestinian Authority and the intifada.
    By Ferry Biedermann July 19, 2002

  • 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.
    By Gary Kamiya June 25, 2002

  • 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?
    By Aluf Benn April 10, 2002

  • 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?
    By Ferry Biedermann April 9, 2002

  • 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.
    By Ferry Biedermann March 2, 2002

  • 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.
    By Ferry Biedermann January 25, 2002

  • 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.
    By Flore de Préneuf December 5, 2001

  • 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.
    By Ben Barber February 16, 2001

  • 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.
    By Flore de Préneuf February 6, 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

  • "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

  • 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?
    By Flore de Preneuf October 3, 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

  • 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?
    By David Horowitz September 27, 1999

  • Palestinian refugees get wired

    What can the Internet bring to a culture that has been scattered across the world?
    By Flore de Preneuf August 24, 1999

  • 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.
    By Daryl Lindsey October 23, 1998

  • 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
    By Jonathan Broder July 28, 1998

  • 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.
    By Jonathan Broder May 12, 1998

  • Newsreal: Fish or cut bait

    If he wants to save his proudest foreign policy accomplishment, President Clinton will have to face down Israel.
    By Jonathan Broder April 1, 1998

  • Newsreal: The end

    Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with President Clinton next Tuesday will likely sink the Middle East peace process altogether.
    By Jonathan Broder January 16, 1998
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