Arabs: Support for Israel taints reform efforts
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Arab leaders rebuked the United States yesterday for its policy toward Israel, saying US efforts to curb Muslim extremism and promote democracy in the Middle East could
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Israelis and Palestinians both dismiss rapidly growing headcount figure as inaccurate
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Arab officials reacted with alarm to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, with some countries condemning Israel&#039;s offensive in Gaza and others pressing Palestinian militants to free a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
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As Israel continues to strike at the Gaza Strip, Arabic papers warn that such action can only be counterproductive. One daily says viewers could be forgiven for confusing images of &quot;butchery&quot; in Gaza with those from Samarra and Falluja in Iraq.
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A school text book for Arab children in Israel has sparked an outcry among rightist Jews by including a reference for the first time to the Palestinian view of the Jewish state's founding as a "catastrophe".
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Israeli plans to build more homes in and around Arab East Jerusalem came under fire on Tuesday from Palestinians who see the city as capital of their future state, casting another shadow over troubled peace talks.
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BEIRUT: Consistently second only to Ariel Sharon in terms of unpopularity among Arabs, US President George W. Bush&#39;s re-election victory was greeted in the Arab world with a sense of disillusionment and foreboding.
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There&#39;s been a lukewarm reaction to a British-backed Middle East conference. Israel says it will boycott the meeting pencilled in for February in London.
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While Yasir Arafat's passing may be seen as an opportunity by politicians, suicide bombings have broken Israeli optimism.
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RABAT, Morocco -- Arab leaders rebuked the United States on Saturday for its policy on Israel, saying US efforts to curb Islamic extremism and promote democracy in the Middle East could not be taken seriously because of its one-sided stand in the Israeli
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Ariel Sharon struggled yesterday to shore up support for his crumbling coalition and avoid early general elections that the prime minister warned posed &quot;a great danger&quot; for Israel.
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In both Israel and America, minorities in the Jewish world are attempting to impose their will on the majority. The outcome of these efforts will do much to determine the future course of Jewish politics.
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JERUSALEM -- From the podium of the Israeli Knesset last week, Shimon Peres, the engineer of the Oslo peace process and leader of the parliamentary opposition, lambasted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's speech on the state of the nation. Minutes later, in a nearby conference room, he urged his Labor party colleagues not to vote against Sharon's program so as not ...
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The Israeli public wants a tough response, and some fear another episode of brinksmanship is at hand
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Israel's image in the United States may be tarnished and relations with its main ally suffer even if suspicions a Pentagon analyst gave secrets to the Jewish state prove false, Israeli officials said Sunday.
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The Palestinians have taken a double hit this week with the news that Washington has quietly softened its opposition to growth in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Israel&#39;s announcement of plans to build 530 new settler homes in the
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Forty years after Israel's stunning victory over three Arab armies, the defeat still lingers in the Arab world &#151; so much so, some blame it for everything from a lack of democracy in the region to the rise of religious extremism.