Arthur James Balfour.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema via Wikimedia Commons
With just 67 words, a British foreign secretary kicked off a hundred years of conflict and displacement.
EPA/Mohammed Saber
After many failed attempts, Hamas and Fatah might just have struck a crucial accord. But can they follow through?
As American as anyone.
scottagunn via Flickr
In a poisonous atmosphere of Islamophobia and xenophobia, Palestinian-Americans are finding ways to belong.
EPA/Abir Sultan
What caused the latest crisis at the world’s most explosive piece of real estate, and could it happen again?
The border wall between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, Calif.
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Deadly, ineffective and generally fated to fall, border walls are multiplying and becoming the new normal in international relations.
Israeli soldiers during the Six-Day War.
רפי רוגל via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Solidarity tent.
As 1,300 prisoners went on strike for improved conditions, a wave of solidarity protests spread across the Palestinian Territories.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly supports the nation-state bill.
REUTERS/Abir Sultan
A linguistics scholar explains why the loss of Arabic in Israel would be a loss of history, culture and possibly human rights.
Ahmed Kathrada leaves a legacy filled with self-sacrifice and courage.
Kopano Tlape/EPA
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.
Amr Abdallah/Reuters
Unless we’re addressing inequalities everywhere, we will achieve equality nowhere.
Amir Cohen/Reuters
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.
In leaving open the option of a single-state solution, Donald Trump recently broke with two decades of international diplomacy.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
What would single and two-state solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian question look like?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s objective is to shore up Australia’s support.
Amos Ben Gershom/EPA
Israel has only a handful of friends on the international stage. Australia is one of them.
EPA/Michael Reynolds
As with so many other areas of policy, Trump vacillates from one pole to another on Israel.
Trump and Netanyahu participate in a joint news conference on Feb. 15, 2017.
P Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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?
A vendor sells newspapers with the Arabic headline ‘Trump era’ in Cairo, Egypt on Nov. 10, 2016.
AP Photo/Amr Nabil
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.
Thwarted: Netanyahu, Obama and Abbas.
EPA/Omar Rashidi
A Middle East in meltdown forced the Obama administration to give up crucial leverage.
A memorial to the Kafr Qasim victims.
Zero0000 via Wikimedia Commons
The 49 Palestinian Israelis murdered by soldiers in 1956 deserve to be officially remembered.
Boys’ club.
EPA/Atef Safadi
There have been efforts to include women in West Bank politics, but they’ve fallen short. Activists are trying to change things.
Members of the Non-Aligned Movement meet at the session of the 17th summit of heads of state and government.
DIRCO
The Non-Aligned Movement member states enjoy cohesion on few issues. Historically, their heterogeneity ranged from absolute monarchs to socialist presidents.