Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will continue to build homes in existing West Bank settlements, defying U.S. calls to halt settlement growth. ...more

May 25, 2009

60 Percent of Americans were sympathetic toward the Israelis 17 Percent of Americans supported the Palestinians ...more

January 26, 2009

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Newsweek-The Post's Lally Weymouth that the conflict in Gaza is not a fight of Israelis against Palestinians but a case in which Israel represents moderates in the region, including the Palestinian Authority. Here are some excerpts: ...more

January 12, 2009

If your neighbor has been tossing garbage over your back yard fence more or less nonstop for the last 60 years, you'd be pretty fed up. Calling the cops (the United Nations) didn't help, so you've been left with the option to take things into your own hands - and guns. ...more

January 11, 2009

The key question in how to end Israel's attacks in Gaza cannot be answered by the Israelis. What must it do to convince the terrorist group, Hamas, which runs Gaza, to stop firing missiles into Israeli neighborhoods? ...more

January 3, 2009

Israel released 224 Palestinian prisoners Monday in a gesture to moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and jubilant detainees waving Palestinian flags jumped on the roof of one of the buses carrying them to freedom. ...more

December 16, 2008

With international efforts to increase sanctions against Iran at a standstill, many Israelis think their nation alone stands in the way of Tehran eventually building nuclear weapons. ...more

November 4, 2008

Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, conspiracy theories began to crop up about how it was an "inside job," planned and executed by the U.S. government. ...more

September 11, 2008

Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah on Wednesday conducted a prisoner exchange, with two coffins containing the bodies of abducted Israeli soldiers swapped for five Lebanese prisoners, including a convicted murderer. ...more

July 17, 2008

Tim Keffalas of Tarpon Springs says James Hibbs, in op-ed page column in our June 7 print editions, shouldn't have gone out on a limb abd declared "McCain Can't Win." ...more

June 14, 2008