gaza strip

• Opinion

Photo choice shows Sun has anti-Israel bias

The Sun runs photos illustrating civilians killed in Gaza but not damage done to Israel; why is that?

• Opinion

Why doesn't Egypt help Gazans?

Dan Rodricks column fails to explore why neighboring Egypt doesn't help Gazans.

• Opinion

Israel will survive the Middle East

Why do we blame everyone for the Palestinian deaths and injuries except for the Palestinians? The Jewish state has survived countless wars, terrorism and the continuing anger of the Western media. It will also survive the Middle East.

• Opinion

Gaza violence? Stop scapegoating Israel for actions of Hamas

Blame Hamas for the dead and wounded in Gaza this week.

• Opinion

It's unfair to blame Israel for deaths in Gaza

Israel has acted honorably toward Palestinians, it's Hamas that should be blamed for deaths in Gaza.

• Opinion

Beginning of the end of Israeli occupation?

Death of Gaza protesters may be remembered as a turning point for Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

• Opinion

Gaza deaths demand action

Now is the time for citizens of conscience to stand up for the rights of those killed in Gaza to ensure that their deaths will not have been in vain.

• Opinion

The BDS movement is nothing more than propaganda

The BDS movement is a propaganda tool being utilized by Israel's Arab neighbors to do what they haven't been able to accomplish through multiple wars of aggression.

• Opinion

Trump should get tough on Israel

Donald Trump's best shot at Middle East peace is to force Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians

• Opinion

Radical change coming in U.S.-Israeli relations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a political conservative in the mold of President-elect Donald J. Trump, seemingly cannot wait for what he envisions to be the dawn of a new America Jan. 20, when Mr. Trump is inaugurated. But that bodes ill for Israeli-Palestinian peace. A Trump-Netanyahu bond will mark a radical change in U.S.-Israeli relations.

• Opinion

Gaza suffers under blockade

Worsening slum conditions in Gaza stem directly from Israeli blockade

• Opinion

Hamas is not the villain

Hamas is not the villain in Gaza

• Opinion

Netanyahu does not seek peace

Israel will continue to take advantage of Palestinians until U.S. changes its policies

• Opinion

All eyes were on Baltimore in 2015

From the moment the first citizen video of the arrest of Freddie Gray surfaced in April, I have been focused on images of Baltimore like never before in more

By David Zurawik

Dec 25, 2015

• Opinion

Israel on receiving end of terrorism

Complaints of Israel terrorism ignore the attacks the nation endures

• Opinion

Israel has a right to defend itself and its citizens

If Palestinians would agree to a two-state solution Israel would jump at the opportunity

• Opinion

In the media, divergent perspectives on Baltimore

All of the films discussed here focused on Sandtown, the neighborhood in which Freddie Gray lived and was arrested before he died from injuries sustained while in police custody. And all of the films include multiple images of the same wall murals that commemorate Gray. But each of the films then moves on from those shared visual depictions of Gray to plug events surrounding his death into the different narratives that fit their point of view.

By David Zurawik

Jun 19, 2015

• Opinion

It's Baltimore as Gaza in Al Jazeera report on police-community relations

Al Jazeera America's "Fault Lines" series returns to Baltimore tonight with a hard-eyed look at police-community relations following the death of Freddie Gray April 19 from a neck injury sustained while in police custody.

By David Zurawik

Jun 15, 2015

• Opinion

Israel has run out of excuses

Allowing Palestinians to ride on buses does not end Israel's apartheid policies

• Opinion

Let Netanyahu speak

Rep. John Boehner was right to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress.

• Opinion

Palestinians have more to answer for at the ICC than Israel

Palestinians have more to answer for at the ICC than Israel

• Opinion

Lone soldiers in the Holy Land

While many around the world are shocked to witness increasing numbers of radicalized young people running off to join the brutal would-be caliphate of Islamic State, little attention is paid to their more pacific and principled counterparts who leave behind family and friends to pursue ennobled causes elsewhere. Among the latter are a group of volunteers in the Israel Defense Forces who have no ties to the Holy Land other than a strong feeling of affinity for its fundamental values. Some of them

• Opinion

Israel's actions in Gaza were self-defense

Actions by Israel in Gaza were well justified given the rocket and terrorist attacks

• Opinion

Biggest stories of 2014 didn't need traditional news outlets

Biggest stories of the year didn't need traditional news outlets

By David Zurawik

Dec 26, 2014

• Opinion

Hold Israel accountable for war crimes

Israel should be held accountable for the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian children

• Opinion

No statehood for murderers

Israel should not reward terrorists by negotiating statehood for Palestinian Arabs in wake of Jerusalem attack

• Opinion

Tragedy in Jerusalem

The senseless murder of Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in the divided city was an act of pure evil

• Baltimore City Paper

Potential Gallery CA art exhibit causes controversy with its culturally insensitive message, critics say

• Opinion

Hopkins is hypocritical on academic freedom

On the question of the academic boycott of Israel, Hopkins offers mere lip service to academic freedom.

• Baltimore City Paper

Unbelonging

• Opinion

Israel has acted responsibly against Hamas [Letter]

Israel has acted responsibly in response to Hamas rocket attacks

• Opinion

Israel has acted responsibly against Hamas [Letter]

• Opinion

Israel committed war crimes during its invasion of Gaza [Letter]

Israel committed war crimes during its invasion of Gaza

• Opinion

Israel committed war crimes during its invasion of Gaza [Letter]

• Opinion

Why viewers can't trust Al Jazeera's coverage of the war in Gaza [Letter]

Why viewers can't trust Al Jazeera's coverage of the war in Gaza

• Opinion

Hamas will never accept Israel's right to exist [Letter]

• Middle East

Anti-Israel activists aren't helping the Palestinian cause in Gaza [Letter]

• Opinion

Palestinian death toll can't be swept under the rug by Israel's apologists [Letter]

• Opinion

It will take a historic breakthrough for Hamas to agree to give up its arms [Letter]

• Opinion

Hamas' terror is dwarfed by Israel's [Letter]

• Opinion

Misconceptions about Israel's war in Gaza [Letter]

• Middle East

If Israel is defeated, America will be next [Letter]

• Opinion

A costly victory for Israel [Commentary]

• Opinion

Where do their loyalties lie? [Letter]

• Opinion

Hamas' casualty figures can't be trusted [Letter]

• Middle East

Israel's war is just [Letter]

• Opinion

Cardin, Mikulski should call for ending U.S. aid to Israel [Letter]

• Opinion

What about Palestinian lives? [Letter]

• Israel

Americans find meaning in Israeli military service

Thousands of American Jews have signed up to fight for Israel since the creation of the modern state in 1948. The Israel Defense Forces puts the number now on active duty at about 1,000, including 20 from Baltimore.

• Middle East

Americans find meaning in Israeli military service