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Israel digs up the West Bank – and reignites a battle over history

As Israel expands excavations in the West Bank, ancient ruins become entangled in a modern political struggle over land, history, and identity

Workers and volunteers on an archaeological dig sift through dirt at Alexandrion/Sartaba in the Jordan Valley.
 Grade 12 Arabic textbook teaching a poem praising children in Gaza for fighting and dying as martyrs to liberate Palestine.

Tunisia’s schoolbooks celebrate Hitler, omit Holocaust, research finds - IMPACT-se

View of an illustration depicting captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in downtown Caracas.

How media decides which deaths count and which events matter - analysis

A scene from ‘Bella.’

How a Jew and an Arab made a comedy about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict


Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators face off on Manhattan streets

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators approached the people who had come to the End Jew Hatred rally, screaming, “Hey hey, ho ho, Israel has got to go!”

 PRO-PALESTINIAN/anti-Israel groups hold a demonstration across from the Washington Monument, earlier this year. A sign reads: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.’

West Bank's Area C 'integral to State of Palestine' - PA prime minister

PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh warned his cabinet that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was working to "annex" Area C.

A Jewish settler walks past Israeli settlement construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the West Bank, near Jerusalem June 30, 2020.

Palestinian piece of Saudi-Israel deal is Israel’s last chance to prevent bi-national state

 Dr. Shaul Arieli

Israelis are losing faith in a peaceful two-state solution – poll

The survey also recorded a decrease in the number of Arab Muslims living in Israel experiencing discrimination.

A man holds a Palestinian flag near young Jewish men holding Israeli flags in Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 29, 2022.

Saudi Arabia, EU launch new initiative for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Saudi FM Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said that there would be no solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without a Palestinian state.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with PA head Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral of Shimon Peres, in Jerusalem, 2016. The Oslo process has been continued by every government including by Benjamin Netanyahu, says the writer.

Lawsuit alleges that California school district illegally approved ‘antisemitic’ ethnic studies

The plaintiffs say the class promotes a biased narrative of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and portrays Israel as illegitimate by applying labels such as “settler colonial”

 AN EMPTY classroom in an east Jerusalem school, closed in protest at ‘Israeli censorship’ of PA-autorized school textbooks, last year.

Golda Meir considered Palestinian statehood, declassified documents reveal

Meir, who famously said "there was no such thing as Palestinians," apparently viewed a future Palestinian state as a possibility.

 GOLDA MEIR, 1964.

FADC to Gov't: Combat Palestinian building threat to Israeli sovereignty

MK Avi Boaron (Likud) quoted from the document which explained that there was a "Palestinian campaign to reshape the area," through “political construction.”

 View of the Jewish settlement of Tekoa in Gush Etzion, West Bank, on November 15, 2020.

Meet the EU envoy hoping to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: “We all have an obligation as non-desperate people who try to do good things to show that there is something to live for,” he said.

SVEN KOOPMANS, the European Union’s special representative for the Middle East peace process, poses overlooking east Jerusalem this week.

Land reclamation and 3D infrastructure to transform Israeli-Palestinian relations - opinion

Let expansive imagination secure the dignity of the Palestinians, the Israelis, and the entire Middle East.

 NICKOLAY MLADENOV, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, visits a solar energy project at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, in 2019.