One State, Two States

Book Review: Benny Morris, a leading Israeli revisionist historian, studies the question of one or two states, and comes to the pessimistic conclusion that neither alternative is possible. Which raises the question: where does that leave us?

Building civil society

Khaled Abu Toameh has been a journalist for Israeli and PLO media. With the right leadership, he says, there is no reason that Palestinians could not have built themselves a new Hong Kong or Singapore. Were Western donor countries to insist upon those very elements in exchange for all their aid dollars, they could have helped make it so.

X-ray vision

Dr. Allan Fox, a neuro-radiologist from Canada, serves as a volunteer at a Haifa hospital, in a community that includes both Jewish and Arab Israelis. Montreal and Haifa, he says, have a lot in common, “two main peoples, a mountain, and a port, and different versions of the same history."

Talking coexistence

The Abraham Fund hopes to expand Arabic education in Israeli schools to 5th and 6th grade students. The program teaches young children Arab culture and language in an effort to tear down cultural walls.

U.S. General rates Palestinian soldiers

For more than three years, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton has been leading U.S. efforts to transform Palestinian security forces into a trusted, respected, dependable, professional force. Recently he offered a rare public assessment of his work.

Wattan TV: the whole story

Popular and secular, this independent broadcaster offers extensive coverage of the West Bank.

Walking the Papal tightrope

The Pope may be able to go many places as a pilgrim and avoid politics, but he cannot do it in the West Bank, says Father Raymond J. De Souza.

Israel's Shimon Peres on Iran

Israeli President Shimon Peres spoke to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about Iran's nuclear program. Here is a transcript of his remarks.

Seven existential threats

The State of Israel copes not with one but with at least seven existential threats on a daily basis, extraordinary not only for their number but also for their diversity, Michael Oren writes.

Ambassador of music

At the Cairo Opera House, Israeli musician Daniel Barenboim received 'a rapturous reception'.