300,000 Number of Israeli settlers who live in the West Bank 2 million Number of Palestinians who reside in the West Bank ...more

May 29, 2009

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

Ken McGurn is coming to town Tuesday, and he's hoping to avoid his worst-case scenario: becoming the human version of the China Syndrome. It could happen. ...more

March 12, 2009

War in the Gaza Strip demonstrates yet again that the current governance paradigm for the Palestinian people has failed. Terrorists financed and supplied by Iran control Gaza; the Palestinian Authority is broken, probably irretrievably; and economic development is stalled in Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians are suffering the consequences of regional power struggles played out through them as surrogates. ...more

January 7, 2009

Nearly 30 months after an Israeli soldier was captured, students demanded his release in a protest outside the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. ...more

December 22, 2008

Janet Cain, a deacon at Trinity Chapel, a Pentecostal megachurch in Powder Springs, Ga., loves Israel. ...more

October 19, 2008

Seeing concrete barriers that protect motorists from flying bullets was a new experience for Tampa police Maj. John Bennett. ...more

June 28, 2008

TAMPA Seeing concrete barriers that protect motorists from flying bullets was a new experience for Tampa police Maj. John Bennett. ...more

June 27, 2008

Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to start drafting sections of a proposed peace accord that address the main issues of their conflict, the chief Palestinian negotiator said. ...more

June 8, 2008

TAMPA - Two weeks ago, Gov. Charlie Crist appointed a county judge to fill a circuit judge seat left vacant when Monica Sierra resigned to continue as a volunteer for an evangelical mission in Israel's West Bank. ...more

May 23, 2008