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How a Jew and an Arab made a comedy about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

A bold new Jewish-Arab comedy, “Bella,” uses humor to explore shared pain.

A scene from ‘Bella.’
A dog walks next to a plaque on a stone that reads 'Herzog Park' commemorating Chaim Herzog, Israel's sixth president, who was born in Belfast, as Dublin City Council has prepared a motion to rename 'Herzog Park' to 'Hind Rajab Park' after Hind Rajab from Gaza, in Dublin, Ireland, November 30, 2025.

Herzog Park name change means more than policy, its an attack against Jewish identity - analysis

UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL Philippe Lazzarini speaks in Cairo in September. He had claimed that UNRWA didn’t know what was ‘under its headquarters,’ and fired a handful of terrorists, but it wasn’t just a few bad apples, says the writer.

Why deradicalizing Gaza’s youth will be the hardest battle - opinion

Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from aid trucks near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, August 18, 2025.

UN Gaza resolution draft mentions Palestinian state for first time


Palestinian statehood best way to marginalize Iran - Blinken says

Speaking to reporters after meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Blinken said Middle East is currently facing two different paths.

 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands as he departs for Tel Aviv, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, in Manama, Bahrain, January 10, 2024.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a mess, needs to be closely observed - opinion

A myriad of factors, nuances, and influences of this conflict, including this war, complicate its mitigation and resolution.

 A WOMAN visits last week what is left of a Kibbutz Kfar Aza home that was destroyed in the October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists. The Hebrew on the wall reads ‘human remains on the sofa.’ The horrific pogrom has pushed more Israelis to diminish the thought of reconciliation with Palestinians

UN Security Council aims to vote Friday to boost aid to Gaza

After nearly two weeks of negotiations and several delays on a vote, an agreement was struck late Thursday with the US that could allow a resolution drafted by the UAE to be adopted.

 People visit the United Nations Headquarters as delegates of the Security Council delayed for one extra day the vote on a proposal to demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Gaza Strip, December 20, 2023

‘The Israelis are genociding the Palestinians,’ claims Andrew Tate

Andrew Tate argued that he was jailed for "fighting oppression... because he believes that the people in charge of the world are enslaving us all" and that Israel is the cause of October 7.

Andrew Tate gestures towards the media before delivering a press statement outside his house in Voluntari, Ilfov, Romania, August 4, 2023.

92NY in tumult after canceling Israel-critical author event, as Israel-Hamas war roils arts world

Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nyugen, whose event was staged at a different location Friday evening, considered the 92NY’s decision a “cancellation.” 

 Pro-Israel students take part in a protest in support of Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City, U.S., October 12, 2023

Muslim boy killed in stabbing in Illinois linked to Israel-Gaza war

71-year-old Joseph Czuba is believed to have killed the 6-year-old in a hate crime motivated by the ongoing conflict in Israel.

Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who according to police was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, poses in an undated family photograph obtained by Reuters on October 15, 2023

Arab states say Palestinians must stay on their land as war escalates

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said: "Civilians need to be protected. We do not want to see a mass exodus of Gazans."

 FIRE AND smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip this week. Iran and its genocidal proxy armies, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, must be crushed, the writer asserts.

Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators face off on Manhattan streets

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators approached the people who had come to the End Jew Hatred rally, screaming, “Hey hey, ho ho, Israel has got to go!”

 PRO-PALESTINIAN/anti-Israel groups hold a demonstration across from the Washington Monument, earlier this year. A sign reads: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.’

West Bank's Area C 'integral to State of Palestine' - PA prime minister

PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh warned his cabinet that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was working to "annex" Area C.

A Jewish settler walks past Israeli settlement construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the West Bank, near Jerusalem June 30, 2020.

Palestinian piece of Saudi-Israel deal is Israel’s last chance to prevent bi-national state

 Dr. Shaul Arieli