Israel Palestine

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


Israelis are losing faith in a peaceful two-state solution – poll

The survey also recorded a decrease in the number of Arab Muslims living in Israel experiencing discrimination.

A man holds a Palestinian flag near young Jewish men holding Israeli flags in Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 29, 2022.

Saudi Arabia, EU launch new initiative for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Saudi FM Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said that there would be no solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without a Palestinian state.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with PA head Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral of Shimon Peres, in Jerusalem, 2016. The Oslo process has been continued by every government including by Benjamin Netanyahu, says the writer.

Lawsuit alleges that California school district illegally approved ‘antisemitic’ ethnic studies

The plaintiffs say the class promotes a biased narrative of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and portrays Israel as illegitimate by applying labels such as “settler colonial”

 AN EMPTY classroom in an east Jerusalem school, closed in protest at ‘Israeli censorship’ of PA-autorized school textbooks, last year.

Golda Meir considered Palestinian statehood, declassified documents reveal

Meir, who famously said "there was no such thing as Palestinians," apparently viewed a future Palestinian state as a possibility.

 GOLDA MEIR, 1964.

FADC to Gov't: Combat Palestinian building threat to Israeli sovereignty

MK Avi Boaron (Likud) quoted from the document which explained that there was a "Palestinian campaign to reshape the area," through “political construction.”

 View of the Jewish settlement of Tekoa in Gush Etzion, West Bank, on November 15, 2020.

Meet the EU envoy hoping to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: “We all have an obligation as non-desperate people who try to do good things to show that there is something to live for,” he said.

SVEN KOOPMANS, the European Union’s special representative for the Middle East peace process, poses overlooking east Jerusalem this week.

Land reclamation and 3D infrastructure to transform Israeli-Palestinian relations - opinion

Let expansive imagination secure the dignity of the Palestinians, the Israelis, and the entire Middle East.

 NICKOLAY MLADENOV, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, visits a solar energy project at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, in 2019.

What will happen to Israel if the Palestinian Authority falls? - opinion

It is unnerving to think of what would happen if Israel loses its source of security coordination in the West Bank.

 PA LEADER Mahmoud Abbas speaks during his visit to Jenin, last week.

Netanyahu, Biden strike blow to already weak Abbas, PA - analysis

If Israel and the US want to retain it as a legitimate diplomatic partner then it has to do more to legitimately strengthen it.

Gunmen attend a funeral of two Palestinians, who were killed during an Israeli raid, in Nablus in the West Bank July 7,2023.

The great challenge: The solution has to come from us, not the outside - opinion

It is possible that we have not suffered enough to come to terms with the need for a solution.

 ISRAELI ARMY vehicles drive through Jenin, on Tuesday. There is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says the writer