Displaying items 25-36 of 567
» View baltimoresun.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-48
•
Next >
-
It's going to take more than Facebook to make peace between Israel and Palestine
The article "Social networks as a grass-roots approach to Mideast peace" ( July 18 ) misses the point when it lists the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's core issues as "...mutual recognition and respect, ideology and dignity." In fact, there are four key...Tags: Israel, West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu, Facebook
-
Shalit release: A flawed deal between sworn enemies
Both Israel and Hamas are claiming victory in the prisoner swap that will free more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in exchange for Sgt. First Class Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier kidnapped by militants five years ago and held...Tags: Peace Negotiations, West Bank, Fatah, Gaza Crisis (2008), Israel
-
Stripping UNESCO funds over Palestine is a mistake
The U.S. sacrifices its own best interests with punitive laws that require defunding of vital U.N. groups who dare to recognize Palestine as a state ("UNESCO vote on Palestine shuts off funding from U.S.," Nov. 1). There can be no clearer example of the...Tags: Israel, UNESCO
-
U.S. should pull funds if UN recognizes Palestine
The United Nations needs to be restrained and warned that a declaration of a Palestinian state must not come about. President Obama needs to assume some leadership role and responsibility for the first time. A declaration and the establishment of a...Tags: United Nations, Barack Obama
-
The United Nations created a Jewish state; it can also create a Palestinian one
I read with interest Rabbi Chaim Landau's comment on the possibility that the United Nations could recognize a Palestinian state in September ("Mr. Obama, don't equate Israel with its enemies," May 27). In 1948, the state of Israel was created by the...Tags: Israel, Judaism, United Nations
-
Rabbi Michael Lerner: Fairness for both sides key to Middle East peace
President Barack Obama is reported to have said to his advisors last week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would never make the concessions necessary for a peace accord. Well, we in the peace movement say, "duhhh."
If the president really...Tags: Treaties, Peace Negotiations, West Bank, Judaism, Wars and Interventions
-
|Story
-
Justice, on screen and off
Academy Award-winning film director Sidney Lumet, who passed away April 9 at age 86, is remembered for classics such as "Twelve Angry Men," the courtroom drama that challenged racial prejudice and which Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has cited as a...Tags: Judaism, Drama (genre), New York City, Neil Simon, Minority Groups
-
Palestinians betrayed by Judge Goldstone
On April 3, Judge Richard Goldstone, chairman of the fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2009, published an op-ed in The Washington Post reconsidering one of the allegations in the report: that Israel intentionally targeted Palestinian...Tags: Human Rights, War Crimes, The Washington Post, Gaza Crisis (2008), Religious Conflicts
-
A Leap of Faith
Sun StaffKOCHAV YAAKOV, West Bank - The white van rolled past cement barricades, past a barbed-wire fence and an armed guard at the entry gate, past rows of cream-colored houses with red-tile roofs before pulling to a stop. Glenn and Gilla Jasper, a young Orthodox...Tags: Children, Human Rights, Peace Negotiations, Judaism, Public Relations
-
John Murphy on Israel's withdrawal from Gaza
Second of two parts Robin Wood, Baltimore: Why do the 400 Israeli families in Kfar Darom believe their claims on land and desires for a particular way of life have more legitimacy than the needs and desires of the 1,000,000 Palestinian families living...Tags: Israel, Government, John Murphy, Family, Gaza Strip
-
Hope for peace between Palestinians, Israelis at highest point since '93
Los Angeles TimesJERUSALEM - It began, as it had last time and the time before, with a celebratory handshake and soaring rhetoric about a chance for peace in this ravaged land. Yesterday's landmark summit, during which Israel and the Palestinians announced they would...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Peace Negotiations, Judaism, Egypt, United Nations
Jul 19, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 19, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 2, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jun 16, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 31, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 24, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 27, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 17, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 18, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 17, 2005
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Aug 26, 2005
|Story| Baltimoresun.com
Feb 9, 2005
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Original site for Palestine topic gallery.
