Romney and Gingrich seem to be making progress in winning the Jewish vote. They have portrayed Obama as a Palestinian ally. But in turning their backs on the peace process, they are serving neither Israel’s security nor U.S. interests in the region.read more

Why more women are breaking the fear barrier.read more

If a new order has not yet been born, at least the old order seems to be dying.read more

In several instances, reality collided with Obama’s lofty rhetoric.read more

It was thirty-two long years after Gandhi returned to India from South Africa that India attained independence. And It took Martin Luther King almost a decade to get segregation consigned to history’s dustbin.read more

The Middle East—and the world—will never be the same again.read more

Free-market economics (endorsed by the United States) has benefited only a few in the region.read more

While the success in Tunisia was historic, the tactic of mass — and for the most part, nonviolent — protest in the region was not.read more

The House resolution proves that rational debate in the Congress about Israeli policy is taboo. Until that taboo is lifted, we cannot expect progress in Mideast peace talks.read more

Until most members of Congress show some respect for international law and some humanity toward Palestinians, there’s no reason for Israel to.read more

On Thursday night, Jon Stewart had Anna Baltzer, author of "Witness on Palestine," on The Daily Show. The program was inundated with hostile calls and e-mails from apologists for Israel's occupation. You can hear more from Baltzer in this interview Matthew Rothschild conducted with her earlier this year.read more

Obama’s embarrassing display of weakness will only embolden the Israeli hardliners and undermine those Palestinians who were willing to negotiate with the Israelis in the first place.read more

Edward Said would be especially dismayed this week as leading figures in Palestine are denying the Holocaust.read more