Fearing the loathing of Settlers in Bi'lin

And whether or not you like Carter, he’s also managed to extract negotiable terms from Hamas during his much-maligned meeting, including a ceasefire and a�letter from Gilad Shalit to his parents...This is not rosy-eyed, kumbaya-singing ...

Note: This article has been adapted from a presentation made by the author before the 4th International Conference against the Occupations, in March, 2006, in Cairo...Next to wanton slaughter, no sin against humanity is more evil. In my lifetime, ...

Monday, 28 April 2008 When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. In a few weeks, the state of Israel ...

Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based Hamas leader, said in an interview with pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television Egypt had proposed a six-month truce between the Hamas rulers of Gaza and Israel. He said his group was ready to cooperate but added: "It is a ...

It is a pity that your balanced and interesting feature, 'Israel: 60 Years of Hope and Despair' , last week was misleading in two respects. First, it minimised the very real threat of annihilation faced by Israel in both 1948 and 1967. On both ...

Abbas is reportedly "gravely concerned " that the prospects of reaching a breakthrough in peace talks with Israel before the expiration of Bush's term in the White House are very slim. Palestinian sources in Ramallah told Al-Ahram Weekly that Abbas ...

Israel begins commemorating Passover holiday Israel is skeptical of the offer. On Saturday, a former deputy defense minister, Ephraim Sneh , said the government should not accept a truce with Hamas. He said anything that prolongs Hamas rule in Gaza, ...

Medics pronounced the two middle-aged guards dead at the scene, rescue services said, and troops began combing surrounding areas for traces of the assailant. One body remained on the ground outside the factory, covered in a gray blanket, and police ...

A Palestinian militant shot and killed two Israeli security guards early Friday at a factory along the divide between Israel and the West Bank, the military said, an attack that drives home the enormous challenge faced by moderate Palestinians to ...

Carter says Hamas willing to be Israel's neighbor Any Israeli-Palestinian peace deal will have to include an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank to make room for a Palestinian state. For that to happen, Israel says the Palestinians must keep their ...