Bethlehem looms large in our minds with the approach of Christmas. But the reality for people living there now or tourists wishing to visit the ancient city remains deeply politically fraught.
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The city is key to both Israeli and Palestinian identity.
The BBC’s former correspondent in Gaza reviews Donald Macintyre’s Gaza: Preparing for Dawn.
With just 67 words, a British foreign secretary kicked off a hundred years of conflict and displacement.
After many failed attempts, Hamas and Fatah might just have struck a crucial accord. But can they follow through?
In a poisonous atmosphere of Islamophobia and xenophobia, Palestinian-Americans are finding ways to belong.
What caused the latest crisis at the world’s most explosive piece of real estate, and could it happen again?
Deadly, ineffective and generally fated to fall, border walls are multiplying and becoming the new normal in international relations.
A 50-year-old conflict that redrew the Middle East in less than a week tells us a lot about how states can play the media.
As 1,300 prisoners went on strike for improved conditions, a wave of solidarity protests spread across the Palestinian Territories.
A linguistics scholar explains why the loss of Arabic in Israel would be a loss of history, culture and possibly human rights.
Amed Kathrada’s legacy can be used as an example for a good life. South Africans will miss his unwavering courage to speak out on matters of national interest.
Unless we’re addressing inequalities everywhere, we will achieve equality nowhere.
Donald Trump is only the most recent in a long line of US presidents who have overestimated their ability to manage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What would single and two-state solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian question look like?
Israel has only a handful of friends on the international stage. Australia is one of them.
As with so many other areas of policy, Trump vacillates from one pole to another on Israel.
Israeli settlements are one main reason many observers are increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Can Trump break through?
Could the president-elect and his secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson adopt useful policies in the Middle East? A scholar sees some hopeful possibilities.
A Middle East in meltdown forced the Obama administration to give up crucial leverage.
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