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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


'Ending that occupation' without a solid peace agreement is impossible. Here's why - opinion

Using legal and humanitarian arguments to justify Palestinian demands ignores Israel’s legitimate claims to Judea and Samaria and its security needs. 

 POLICE AND rescue forces are on the scene of a car-ramming terror attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Resistance to ‘the occupation’ is used to justify terrorism, says the writer

IDF operations harm Israeli public health - study

Israeli scientists detect upswings in heart rate and stress and less sleep, especially in southern residents, during 2021 Operation Guardian of the Walls.

 SECURITY AND rescue personnel take cover as a siren sounds, warning of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, on Thursday.

UNESCO votes to reinstate US as member

US law forbids Washington from funding UN bodies that have admitted Palestine as a full member. The American return to UNESCO was enabled after a waiver from Congress.

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Is an Israeli-Palestinian deal possible? - opinion

Following an April announcement by China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang, that China was ready to facilitate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

 CHINESE PREMIER Li Qiang receives Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, last week

Clarity of intentions, actions of consequence is what is required - opinion

Without finding the moral courage and fortitude to take such actions, the situation could become much worse than it already is.

 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the PA leadership, in Ramallah. No president should be in office for so long and certainly without a mandate from the people, says the writer.

Yet another UN farce - editorial

Reports like those by the COI ensure one thing: perpetuation of the conflict. The UN probe attacks the Jewish state while emboldening its enemies and detractors.

 Overview of the session of the Human Rights Council during the speech of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2020.

No to the Flag March in the Muslim Quarter - opinion

The centrality of the Flag Parade and what it symbolizes has been established in the Palestinian consciousness and was an emphasis in the ceasefire negotiations this past week

 HEN-OPPOSITION MK Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrates at a Flag March at Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem’s Old City, June 2021.

Israeli flag march in Jerusalem could lead to violence, Palestinians warn

A Palestinian activist group addressed Israel with the message: “This city will only be an Islamic and Arab city and will never be a Jewish city.”

 Palestinians burn a representation of an Israeli flag during a protest over tensions in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jerusalem Day, on May 29, 2022.

If Israel can change with a non-violent approach, why can't Palestinians? - opinion

Lessons are being learned in every major regional capital, not to mention in Washington and Moscow. Regrettably, it’s a safe bet that Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is learning nothing.

THOUSANDS PROTEST against the planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on Saturday night. Men, women and children have taken to the streets and highways armed with nothing more than flags

There is a way out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

The historical pain, the legacy burdens and the traumas here run so very deep that no amount of rocks or weapons can ever fully express it.

 PARTICIPANTS IN a workshop express how they feel through hand contact