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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

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.

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

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

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.

President Obama did the right thing on Israeli settlements.

Who wrecked the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks?

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.

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

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.

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.

The violence in Israel isn't over land

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

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

Stop shielding Israel from the consequences of its own bad choices

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

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

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

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

Israel is to blame for the violence in Gaza

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Religious extremists are scuttling prospects for Mideast peace

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Israel academic boycott

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.

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.