Dark Fissures of an Israeli Soldierâs Soul
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With âBeaufort,â the Israeli director Joseph Cedar has made a movie about the futility of war.
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To many she is a traitor, a coward and a parasite. But 17-year-old Israeli "draft dodger" Saar Vardi says if more people thought like her, the Middle East would be a more peaceful place.
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Decades of eluding U.S. and Israeli intelligence won Imad Mughniyeh a mythic stature in his home village, where even his family knew little of what the secretive Hezbollah commander was doing.
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The last Israeli soldier left Lebanon on Saturday, more than a month after a U.N. resolution ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli military sources said.
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Sgt. Ryan Kahlor has the same nightmare every time, a vision of walls painted in blood and fat, and men on top of houses, throwing pieces of Marine's bodies off rooftops. It's a vision he can't shake, because he lived through it while deployed to Iraq last year.
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âBlood and Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflictâ methodically traces the battle over turf from its biblical origins to the fragile present.
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A rash of allegations that Israeli soldiers have killed Palestinians wrongfully and abused corpses in the field has been disclosed by human rights organizations and Palestinians -- but also by soldiers who contend that the long conflict is undermining basic concepts of decency in the Israeli Defense Forces.
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Israel obtained a two-decade-old letter written in captivity by its most famous missing soldier as part of a recent exchange with the Hezbollah guerrilla group, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday.
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As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinians alike are struggling with issues of political life and the forming of functioning governments, it is the former who may offer a lead to elements of the latter.
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JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip -- One moment, Suleyman abu Foul was at the breakfast table, asking his mother for food. The next, the 15-year-old Palestinian had slipped out unnoticed into a neighborhood torn by more than a week of combat.
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Middle East News, JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s top general has voiced fears that some of his soldiers have been desensitised by years of conflict with the Palestinians and says the army must strive to uphold moral standards.
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For most Israelis, Yasser Arafat's death opens up new hope for an end to the violence.
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Seven months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s astonishing announcement of a plan to withdraw all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip ignited a tiny spark of hope among people searching for some way out of another ghastly intifada.
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As Israel marks 40 years after an extraordinary victory, there is far less exultation than questioning about the warâs impact on the country.
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The fall of one of the Palestinian territoryâs top security installations is more than just symbolic. What it means for Fatah, Israel and the United States.
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While Zakaria Zbeida, a man wanted dead or alive by Israel as a terrorist leader, spends most of his waking hours in hiding, he has not shied away from becoming the self-appointed sheriff of a refugee camp of 15,000 people in the West Bank.
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An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.