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…ct can finally be resolved? Can the Palestinians negotiate in good faith? Luckily, polling organizations in Israel and Palestine have spent years trying to answer these very questions, often working together and sharing their resources during the hunt. Two of the latest polls,...

…red. He didn’t mention Jews, beyond a bizarre reference to the 2,000" anniversary of the birth of Christ “in Bethlehem, Palestine.” I couldn’t resist remarking to one of the American negotiators that I’d always thought Jesus grew up as a Jewish boy, making thrice-yearly visits at...

…to the United States. Jets belonging to TWA, Pan Am and Swissair were seized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The group also attempted to hijack a jet over London belonging to the Israeli airline El Al but was thwarted by security guards on board. The Pan Am...

This book is only in part the story of my life — a life that, from my beginnings as a kibbutz boy in pre-state Palestine, has been intimately entwined with the infancy and adolescence and, now, the increasingly troubled middle age of the State of Israel. Still less is it only a...

adding that Hamas is a resistance movement that believes that resistance is the means of liberating Palestine

…to the United States. Jets belonging to TWA, Pan Am and Swissair were seized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The group also attempted to hijack a jet over London belonging to the Israeli airline El Al but was thwarted by security guards on board. The Pan Am...

…roaching George Friedman August 22, 2011 -- In September, the U.N. General Assembly will vote on whether to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state with full rights in the United Nations. In many ways, this would appear to be a reasonable and logical step. Wha...

This book is only in part the story of my life — a life that, from my beginnings as a kibbutz boy in pre-state Palestine, has been intimately entwined with the infancy and adolescence and, now, the increasingly troubled middle age of the State of Israel. Still less is it only a...

… time I was born, he had moved on from driving a tractor to a more influential role on the kibbutz. Meir worked for the Palestine Electric Company and when Mishmar Hasharon installed its own electricity system, the PEC was in charge of the work. Meir trained my father and put him...

Did the British promise the Arabs independence in Palestine? In July 1915, Hussein ibn ‘Ali, the Sherif of Mecca, sent a letter to Sir Henry MacMahon, the High Commissioner for Egypt, informing him of the terms for Arab participation in the war against the Turks. The letters be...

…efusal to countenance any compromise in securing what he viewed as the ultimate goal: a Jewish state in all of biblical Palestine, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, with whatever military force was necessary to secure and sustain it. But perhaps Yavin should have used...

… They did, and they released him. He moved to Lebanon where he became an active member of the more moderate wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization. To my knowledge, he has never engaged in any acts of terrorism. I helped several other Palestinian prisoners and detainees a...

…mple physical labor. Late into the evening, they would learn not just about agriculture but Jewish history, the land of Palestine, and how they hoped to put both their new-found skills and the Zionist ideals into practice. She had just turned 22 when she set off for Mishmar Hash...

…ded not in nationalism, but fundamentalist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s presence on any part of “Muslim Palestine,” and Islamic Jihad on the West Bank. And in Lebanon, we were confronting the Iranian-backed Shi’ ite militia fighters of Hizbollah. Each of us in th...

…mnitted itself to the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the uncultivated area of the eastern Mediterranean known as Palestine, the long-running conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians is no longer the main story. So much so that theatregoers in New York were heard...