Many analysts think Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdrew Israeli troops and settlers from Gaza because of the Palestinian “demographic threat” to Israel’s Jewish and democratic…

Any informed assessment of the future direction of events in the West Bank must take as its point of departure a review of the main…

Ariel Sharon’s historic legacy will not be defined by the exaggerated praise he receives today as a hero transformed from brutal warrior to “man of…

The election campaign waged by Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was billed as a referendum on his idea for settling the continuing conflict between Israel…

The battle for Jerusalem, or in effect the battle over the Judaization of the city, has been waged with ups and downs since East Jerusalem…

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has promised to chart a new, unprecedented path for Israel’s 39 year occupation of territories captured in June 1967. In the…

On June 13, a group of Israelis determined to scuttle Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s promise to evacuate West Bank settlements gathered in Jerusalem. In…

Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and called a tenuous halt to the most bloody struggle since Israel’s military…

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has distinguished himself in his first year as Prime Minister by his unprecedented rhetorical support for a large scale evacuation of…

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was keenly aware that the execution of Israel’s “disengagement” from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the northern West Bank…