I went to Saudi Arabia because, with 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers being citizens of that country, I wanted to learn about the country, people and religion. Eight years later, I wonder what America and Saudi Arabia have learned about each other.
I went to Saudi Arabia because, with 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers being citizens of that country, I wanted to learn about the country, people and religion. Eight years later, I wonder what America and Saudi Arabia have learned about each other.
They are armed with colourful balloons and high spirits. There's a rainbow flag in the midst. But according to the Israeli government and the airlines that seem to take their orders from it, they are subversive elements and dangerous criminals.
Glenn Beck, the former Fox News personality, has devised a three-point strategy that enables him to widely disseminate the old "blame the Jews" meme without being dismissed as anti-Semitic.
"The boss organizes the workers," labor activists like to say. The Israeli government is doing a fantastic job of organizing resistance against the occupation. Mazl tov! Keep up the good work!
Now don't bet the family farm that the flotilla folk will show up anytime soon in Egypt, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or anywhere else outside Gaza. The reason? Simple and obvious. If it doesn't have an Israeli connection, they're just not interested.
The Glenn Beck circus at the Knesset Monday had it all: Ecstatic fans who pushed and shoved to meet him; a theatrical as ever Beck, pounding on the table and yelling "Amen"; MK Arieh Eldad saying the occupation must end -- the Islamic occupation of Israel, that is.
Banksy, the subversive British artist who started his career with a can of spray paint and a graffiti rat tag, has become as popular around the West Bank as Naji Salim al-Ali, the iconic and martyred political cartoonist.
As with each of us, World History is part of the context of our lives -- woven intricately into our life journeys. What we cling to, of course, are our personal memories of how history impacts us.
On September 13, 2011, there will be a special election in the congressional district spanning Brooklyn and Queens that was represented by Anthony We...
Instead of depending solely on Israel to be the unifying factor for Jews worldwide, we must find additional and tangible ways to live our connections to Judaism and to other Jews, wherever we find ourselves.
Freedom for Palestine may be a catchy tune, but its simplistic message doesn't chime well with the messy reality in the Middle East.
If there is to be Israeli-Palestinian peace, the current dynamics at work in Israeli and Palestinian societies and in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship must be changed. That will require strategic thinking and a willingness to shake thing up, especially in Israel.
At the Cinema Cafe in Nablus, hiply dressed youth sip coffee drinks, surrounded by a flashy mall and blaring pop music. It's an odd place to have an e...
The "pro-Israel" forces in this country are wrongly labelled. They are not pro-Israel. They are anti-Palestinian. They believe that so long as the Palestinians are losing, Israel is winning. They have it precisely backwards.
Bronner's piece is a tragic performance in the gap between the understanding that it grasps and the understanding that it manages to hold.
I'm here as an activist passenger on the United States flotilla boat, blocked by the Greek government's decision. Our guiding question asks to what extent we can focus world attention on the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.
"Not even in 300 years" said Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as he appeared on Lebanese television a few days ago bluntly declining to adhere to...
What of the sway of Persian, or for that matter, any other language in today's world? It is language capable of 'selling' to an increasingly aware world-population that will be triumphant in the 21st century.
I registered surprise by how quietly the five-year anniversary of Gilad Shalit's abduction passed. It seems that those outraged -- and rightly so -- at the state of affairs in the Jewish State no longer have space for the causes that first seduced them into loving such a complicated country.
The Assad regime plays a very risky game by sending truckloads of Palestinian refugees to the frontier and encouraging them to demonstrate in favour of Israel's withdrawal.
Netanyahu, who has all but signed in as a political advisor for the 2012 Republican election campaign, is operating under the assumption that if Barack Obama is ousted from the White House next year he would be replaced by a clone of George W. Bush.