Obama departs Israel for Jordan in AF1

It wasn't the throng of hundreds of thousands that organizers had hoped for, but the rush-hour crowd did manage to bring some of the spirit of the speech to the square. PEOPLE WATCH US President Barack Obama Jerusalem speech at Rabin Square in Tel ...

The Prime Ministers is an epic film that looks at six decades of Israel's history-from its founding until the early 21st century. The film will debut on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 7:30pm at AMC Lincoln Square, 1998 Broadway, New York City. Based on the ...

Ibrahim Makhoulf's home is attacked by Israeli settlers at least two times per week and has been vandalized over 100 times. (Jillian Kestler-DAmours / IPS) ASIRA AL-QIBLIYA, West Bank (IPS) - Ibrahim Makhlouf reached for two wooden planks lying in ...

Omar Karsou, a Palestinian from Ramallah who lives in New York, has found favor with U.S. government leaders. He is convinced that the Oslo Accords were a mistake, that Israel encouraged a corrupt and murderous regime headed by a dictator, and that ...

The newspaper headline read: "The Israeli film Canada's leaders should watch." Leaders in Canada or the US may or may not watch the movie, The Gatekeepers. But the people are watching it and getting a picture that's normally denied them by the ...

What would Hafez have done? Every Syrian asks this question. Would the old lion of Damascus, whose son Bashar al-Assad became president when he died in 2000, have handled the present Syrian tragedy more harshly or more leniently? Would Hafez have ...

The guide books warn that it's very unstable and that tourists shouldn't go there; the Foreign Office tells Brits that there's a high threat from terrorism don't visit any part of the territory, it says, and if you do, there is no 'our man' there ...

Amir Ashkar, second from left, and Walaa Sbait, second from right, are among two dozen Palestinian youth who have returned to Iqrit. (Jillian Kestler-DAmours / The Electronic Intifada) A steep and rocky dirt road leads up to the village of Iqrit.

Obama's rock star cool may or may not be charismatic compared, for example, with the extraordinary humility demonstrated by the new pope US President Barack Obama speaks in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013. Photo: Reuters Unless Passover preparations ...