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• Health

Palestinian leader treated in Baltimore, according to report

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was seen at a Baltimore hospital this week and will return Friday to the West Bank, according to Reuters, citing a senior Palestinian official.

By Meredith Cohn

Feb 22, 2018

• 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 and Israel

Will the new U.S. president allow Israeli extremists to destroy the possibility of a two-state solution?

• Politics

Bill brings Middle East boycott conflict to Annapolis

Maryland lawmakers are wading into the conflict in the Middle East as they consider legislation that would put Maryland squarely on the side of Israel against critics who would boycott the Jewish state.

By Michael Dresser

Feb 9, 2017

• 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

Obama did the right thing on Israeli settlements

President Obama did the right thing on Israeli settlements.

• Middle East

Aid package hurts peace process

Who wrecked the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks?

• Opinion

Israel aid deal delays potential for peace

The late erudite Israeli foreign minister, Abba Eban, was quoted widely for once having said "the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" for peace. The same could apply recently to the Americans.

• Baltimore City Paper

Best Fiction Book: “A Curious Land” by Susan Muaddi Darraj

Susan Muaddi Darraj’s “A Curious Land: Stories from Home” is a collection of nine linked short stories about the Palestinian West Bank villagers of Tel

• Opinion

U.S.-Israeli relations are strained as never before

In a shot across Israel's bow illustrative of the split in the American Jewish community and for what surely is a first in U.S. politics, Israel's marginalization of the Palestinians has been challenged publicly by no less than a popular U.S. presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Jew.

• Opinion

Quelling the violence in East Jerusalem

Recent events in Jerusalem have shown that the Israeli government's strategic calculations are incorrect. They apparently believe that the current status quo is sustainable, and that pursuing any serious changes would only make the situation worse. But it's now become clear that the status quo is dangerous and cannot be maintained, and that Israel's political and security situation is slowly getting worse.

• Middle East

The violence in Israel isn't over land

The violence in Israel isn't over land

• Opinion

Jerusalem's nightmare

There's plenty of blame to go around for the wave of violence engulfing Israel

• Opinion

Israel has run out of excuses

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

• Opinion

Stop shielding Israel from the consequences of its own bad choices

Stop shielding Israel from the consequences of its own bad choices

• Opinion

West Bank Jews have rights, too

Arabs live across Israel so it seems reasonable to let Jews live in the West Bank

• Maryland

Criticism of Israel off limits

• 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

• Israel

Jerusalem synagogue attack leaves four rabbis dead

In the pious Har Nof neighborhood in the hills of West Jerusalem, early morning prayers at a landmark synagogue are an integral part of the rhythm of daily religious life.

• Opinion

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

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

• Opinion

A costly victory for Israel [Commentary]

I am a Jewish American and have always considered myself a Zionist. As someone born shortly after World War II, I know how great a difference the founding of Israel, an independent Jewish state embodying Jewish values, made for all Jews everywhere. We all walked a little taller, felt a little safer. The disappearance of Israel would be a disaster of incalculable proportions, not just for the Israelis, but for all of us. Israel is still fighting yesterday's war, however. It cannot win this way,

• 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

• Opinion

Events in Gaza bring new urgency to 'The Honorable Woman'

I can't remember the last time real-life events re-contextualized a work of fiction for me the way Israel's incursion into Gaza has done with "The Honorable Woman" this month.

• Israel

Baltimore-area advocates paying close attention to Gaza conflict

The Hamas rockets and Israeli bombs falling around Gaza are reverberating a world away in Maryland, where many have close family ties or personal history with the region.

• Opinion

Israel is to blame for the violence in Gaza [Letter]

Israel is to blame for the violence in Gaza

• Israel

Canceled flights to Israel slow Pikesville father trying to reach wounded son

Jeffrey Low, the father of a Baltimore-born Israeli soldier who was wounded in Gaza over the weekend, was flying to Tel Aviv to see his son on Tuesday when the news came: Ben Gurion Airport was under attack, and his flight was diverting to Paris.

• Baltimore County

Baltimore native-turned-Israel Defense Forces volunteer wounded in Gaza

A local high school graduate who joined the Israel Defense Forces last year has been wounded in Gaza, his father said Monday.

• Opinion

Another war in Gaza [Editorial]

Israel and Hamas are trapped in an escalating cycle of violence neither can control

• Opinion

Sun offers false equivalence between Israelis and Palestinians [Letter]

The Sun's description of the present conflict creates a false equivalency between Israelis and Palestinians.

• Opinion

The Sun is biased, unethical and hypocritical in coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict [Letter]

The Sun is biased, unethical and hypocritical in coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• Opinion

Root of conflict is not Palestinian independence [Letter]

Middle East conflict stems from opposition to Jewish state and desire for a war against Israel

• Opinion

Religious extremists are scuttling prospects for Mideast peace [Letter]

Religious extremists are scuttling prospects for Mideast peace

• Israel

After beating, teen-ager meets Palestinian leader Abbas

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Monday with the teenager who allegedly was beaten by Israeli police last week, and Jewish leaders in Baltimore condemned the alleged abduction and killing of his cousin by several Israelis.

• Opinion

A dangerous turning point in Israel [Editorial]

The conflict in Israel is turning increasingly personal as calls for revenge flourish after the killings of innocent teens on both sides.

• Middle East

After beating, teen-ager meets Palestinian leader Abbas

• Baltimore City

Teen reportedly beaten in Israel riot was born in Baltimore, family says

Palestinian teen cousins, one born in Baltimore, are at the center of an international firestorm.

• Opinion

Al Jazeera America excels in covering killings of Middle East teens

The grisly discovery Monday of the bodies of three Israeli teens who had been abducted June 12 as they hitchhiked home from a West Bank settlement yeshiva set off a week of mounting violence in the region.

• Maryland

Israel identifies suspects in alleged kidnapping

• Opinion

U.S. should hold Israel accountable [Letter]

Peace will not come to the Middle East until U.S. pressures Israel to endorse two-state solution

• Opinion

U.S. should end support for Israel's occupation of the West Bank [Letter]

U.S. should end support for Israel's occupation of the West Bank

• Opinion

U.S. should end support for Israel's occupation of the West Bank [Letter]

• Anne Arundel

At Naval Academy, Clinton calls on leaders to balance technology, privacy

Former President Bill Clinton delivered the annual Forrestal Lecture at the Naval Academy on Tuesday afternoon as part of a foreign affairs conference.

• Opinion

Policy breakthrough or breakdown? [Commentary]

Neither U.S. activism in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Iran, nor U.S. inaction in the case of Syria, has yet to bring the results hoped for by the Obama Administration. While U.S. policy in the Middle East has not yet broken down, except, perhaps in the case of Syria; the U.S. remains a long way from the breakthrough in the region that the Obama Administration had hoped for.

• Opinion

Academic freedom and Israel [Letter]

Legislative attacks on American Studies Association's Israeli boycott would hamper U.S. academic freedoms

• Opinion

Maryland bills would stifle academic freedom [Commentary]

Bills before the Maryland Senate and House would prevent the use of public college and university funds to support scholarly involvement in academic organizations that have voted to boycott Israel. The bill is a serious threat to academic freedom, and it should be withdrawn from consideration. If there is a vote, the state's legislators should take a strong stance against this attempt to shut down open discussion of U.S. policy toward the Middle East.

• Opinion

Israel is not a 'democracy' [Letter]

Israel academic boycott

• Opinion

Sharon's style missed [Commentary]

Sharon's passing coincides with Secretary of State John Kerry's intensive efforts to secure an Israeli-Palestinian deal. It is impossible to know whether Sharon would have been able to reach an agreement with the Palestinians had he not had a massive coma that left him incapacitated. What is certain is that if Mr. Netanyahu does not adopt Sharon's determination, another opportunity for peace will be lost.

• West Bank

Ariel Sharon, Israel's controversial, iron-willed former leader, dies

Ariel Sharon, the daring Israeli general who as a field commander and prime minister became one of the most influential and controversial leaders in the Middle East, died Saturday. He was 85.