Quiet Beit Jala

Twelve-year old Firas El Yateem is negotiating the string of his kite around an electric line. A few days ago Firas feeling that[…]

Don’t Favor Form over Content

The Bush administration is in the process of falling in the same Israeli trap as that of the former Clinton administration as far[…]

Ramallah Resilient Under Siege

It was late Tuesday night and Saleem Sweidan, who runs Nablus TV, was trying to figure out where to sleep that night. The[…]

Al-Nakba at 53

Israelis often misunderstand the political meaning of the word Nakba which Palestinians apply to the events in 1948 that led to the dispossession[…]

Settlement Freeze is the way out

If there was one issue that the Mitchell committee seems to have zoomed clearly on in its report has been the issue of[…]

Cease-fire conditions

So finally we have it. A Middle East leader has finally pronounced the two-syllable word. Cease-fire. Sure, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s words were[…]

‘Situation on the ground can change public opinion’

More and more Israelis and their supporters in the US are making a major issue of the fact that the peace process is[…]

The dark road ahead

David Landau has been writing for Ha’aretz for some time. His path and mine have often crossed, usually when we are on different[…]

The Law of War

Is there a law for war? This was the way I have interrupted the various comments that friends of mine made this week.[…]

Jerusalem’s Survivors

Mrs. Asfour, a respected Palestinian woman in her late fifties had a problem the other day getting to her home in the Jerusalem[…]