The Endless War

Israel

Israel Shifts Anti-Terror Strategy In Age Of ISIS

NABLUS — The historic West Bank city of Nablus spreads out in front of Mount Gerizim, also known as Jebel et-Tur in Arabic. Through his binoculars, Israeli Army Major Elitsur Trabelsi gazes ...

Turkey

The ISIS Rockets "Made In Turkey"

In Iraq, near Mosul, ISIS was running a sophisticated operation to make guns and explosives. A ne...

Israel

Netanyahu, The Real Master Of Populism

Right-wing populists are advancing in every corner of the world, but let's not forget the Israeli...

Israel

Hungry Gaza Farmers And The Price Of A New Year's Tomato In Israel

Last year, the price of vegetables surged 140% during the high holiday season, yet the Israeli go...

Israel

From Israel To Hungary, Walls Will Never Solve Our Problems

-OpEd- PARIS — If you travel to the far north of England, you'll see ...

France

Worldcrunch Staff Picks Our 24 Best Stories Of 2015

PARIS — Our fair-minded but ever subjective staff of journalists, translators and editors have chosen what we believe to be the year's most engaging and ...

Israel

Twenty Years On, Yitzhak Rabin's Vision For Peace Is Gone Forever

With renewed violence raging between Palestinians and Israelis, and an international community ca...

Palestinian Territory

The Oslo Generation: Palestinians, Educated And Full Of Rage

Born around the time of the 1993 Oslo Accords that were supposed to usher in Middle East peace, t...

France

Can France Shake Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks To Life?

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has a plan that sets a strict 18-month deadline for Israel...

Palestinian Territory

ISIS And Corruption Undermine Hamas Rule In Gaza

Hamas, the Islamist group that governs Gaza, is now facing a challenge from Islamic State insurge...

Israel

Israel's Deadly Logic, As Seen By A Former IDF Soldier

-Op-Ed- JERUSALEM — I finished my military service as a fighter in the Israeli military's Nahal Brigade 11 years ago. ...

Syria

A Ravaged Syria Through The Eyes Of A Bus Driver

What was once a simple and relatively quick commute through Aleppo now takes up to 12 hours, as b...

Chile

Patronato Postcard: A Visit To Chile's Little Palestine

Chile has the largest Palestinian population outside the Arab world. This neighborhood in Santiag...

Israel

Where The 'Battle For Jerusalem' May Have Already Begun

In Jabel Mukaber, in East Jerusalem, relatives of Oday and Ghassan, the two Palestinians who atta...

Palestinian Territory

Gaza And The Twisted Politics Of Cement

GAZA CITY — It's easy to imagine his frustration, that of a professional whose fate doesn't depend on the quality of his work or his willingness to work hard ...

Israel

Don't Count On That $5.4 Billion Pledge To Rebuild Gaza

Despite the fanfare of the huge financial commitments from Arab and Western countries to rebuild ...

Palestinian Territory

Hamas Hunts Palestinian Spies Collaborating With Israel

GAZA — Days after Israel's "elimination" of four senior ...

Palestinian Territory

War Crimes In Gaza? Evidence Against Both Sides

GAZA — Palestinian human rights organizations have used the truce in Gaza to begin their difficult investigation work on a war that has already ...

Israel

Egypt's Ever Delicate Relationship With Israel

Egypt's President al-Sisi shares with Israel a common enemy in Hamas, but Egyptians are outraged ...

Israel

By Donkeys And Motorcycles, Primitive Hamas Messaging

Hamas methods for getting information to and from its fighters can pose intelligence cha...

Italy

From The Great War To Gaza, Evolution Of The War Correspondent

A century ago, those reporting on wars were little more than military puppets. Since Vietnam, jou...

Qatar

Qatar's Strongman Has A Problem, And It's Called Hamas

The emirate of Qatar is tiny, but it wields disproportionate power in the world, where it maintai...