One-ton Palestinian key headed to Berlin festival

Published on March 15, 2012

A one-ton steel key symbolizing the Palestinian "right of return" is to be shipped from a West Bank refugee camp to Berlin as part of a citywide art festival.

Prime Minister Fayyad: ‘Unity and Non-violence’ requisites for statehood

Published on November 29, 2011

With skepticism rife over a Fatah-Hamas rapprochement and the Hamas demand to replace him, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, the man credited with energizing the movement toward statehood and the man Western governments want holding the PA’s purse strings, discusses the pending issues with Friedson Friedson, President and CEO of The Media Line news agency, at his Ramallah office. Below is the first of two sessions between Prime Minister Fayyad and Ms. Friedson.

It’s time for words to lead the peace process

By Judea Pearl
Published on November 20, 2008

Let us be frank: The current stalemate is ideological, not physical, and it hangs on two major contentions: "historical right" and "justice," which must be wrestled with in words before we can expect any substantive movement on the ground.

Top Ten Signs we’re making progress towards peace

By Douglas Bloomfield
Published on April 10, 2008

Since none of them is offering any evidence to back up their optimism, here is my Top 10 list of signs of progress to look for in your cup of Mideast tea leaves to help you judge whether this peace process is serious:

What Israel means to me

By David Mamet
Published on March 13, 2008

Israel is a free society. The rights of the minority, of the oppressed, indeed, of the criminally foolish are protected. Mr. Chomsky would be as free in Israel to pronounce this nonsense as he is in the United States. Were he to move to the Arab world, he would be persecuted as a Jew (as, indeed, he might be in France). And were he, God forbid, persecuted, Israel would offer him a home, under the Right of Return. That is what Israel means to me.

An inadvertent gift

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on April 26, 2007

Maya Nahor learned she wasn't Jewish from an Israeli bureaucrat.