The Israeli army is more religious today than it has ever been. And for many soldiers, the illegal settlements of the West Bank and East Jerusalem are not just a question of politics but a fact of divinity. Seeing the land as God’s gift to...

Extremism in any religion is wrong and every religion seems to have their fringe element that makes the majority look bad. But there are differences in how each religion reacts to “their” extremists. After a mosque near Nablus was...

After months of U.S. pressure, Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu has agreed to a “pause” in illegal Israeli settlements. The United States wanted an entire freeze - meaning end - to settlements, but the Israeli government will...

On the face of it, the project sounds innocent enough: Since the early 1990s, the Israeli organization Elad has been rehabilitating the City of David, a once neglected area nestled at the foot of the southern walls of Jerusalem’s Old City....

In an experience that is considered new in the Palestinian society, around 10000 women gathered in a football stadium on the outskirts of East Jerusalem to watch a football match played between the Palestinian female team against the...

This was always predictable. The Palestinian Islamist party-cum-militia Hamas (an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement) was always going to come to the rescue for its secular rival Fatah. Fatah is one of the oldest Palestinian...

Palestinians were failed once again by the American Administration in regards with the Jewish settlements’ freezing on Palestinian land. American president Barak Obama’s team apparently was unsuccessful in “convincing”...

No Zionist cause is too extreme and violent for mainstream support in America. Generic pro-Israel fundraisers are one thing, but support for illegal Israeli settlers on the occupied West Bank is a testament to just how fanatical pro-Israel...

Israeli occupation troops storm al-Aqsa. This is Israel. A nation where Palestinian children throwing rocks are met by Israeli occupation troops firing bullets and tear gas cans. Israeli occupations troops feel threatened by...

The leader of a Jewish sect has been extradited from Brazil to Israel to face charges of abusing children in a purification ritual to expel demons. Elior Chen fled in 2008 after two boys, aged 3 and 4, were taken to hospital with severe injuries....