Israel

From Tel Aviv, we are joined by award-winning Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy, whose latest column for Haaretz newspaper is entitled “Israel cannot imprison two million people in Gaza without paying a cruel price”. Levy analyses the reaction of…

In the Middle East war, every death on one side or the other, every heart-rending scene, every indefensible shooting becomes justification and ammunition for the extremes that sustain that horrible thing called fanaticism. There are too many wise men (learned…

On the twelfth day of Israel’s offensive against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, the humanitarian crisis has reached extremely serious levels in terms of intensity and the number of human beings involved. Palestinian casualties under the incessant Israeli…

The King Center calls on the national and global leaders to recognize that a cease-fire and peaceful resolution form the only pathway to prevent the killing of more Israeli and Palestinian civilians. We believe that, in this interconnected World House,…

Meeting early in the evening, the Security Council rejected by 5 votes for, 4 votes against (United States, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom), and 6 abstentions a draft resolution presented by the Russian Federation by which the Council notably…

UN emergency aid chief Martin Griffiths on Monday expressed deep concern about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the fate of the Israeli hostages while anticipating “good news” on aid access to southern Gaza from Egypt. “We are living…

In times of confusion and unconscionable violence, we seek answers that can free us from the mental prisons into which such human atrocities lead us. How to deal with the unconscionable horror of Hamas’s attack on Israel? How and in…

When I saw the images of smoke billowing from buildings after Israel’s heavy shelling and the destruction of some Kibbutz along the line separating Israel from the Gaza Strip, I knew from the start that both sides seek to destroy…

From New York, Palestinian-American professor Rashid Khalidi, author of the book “Palestine, One Hundred Years of Colonialism and Resistance”, analyses how this weekend’s extreme violence between Hamas and Israel will lead to “a paradigm shift”. Colonial powers will no longer…

In this time of dark grief, I cling to the one thing I have left to hold on to: the absolute belief that this hell is not predestined. Not for us, nor for them.   By Orly Noy (*) October…