Three Views: Obama's Visit to Israel
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Palestinian children during a visit to the Church of the Nativity in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem, March 22, 2013. (ATEF SAFADI-POOL/GETTY IMAGES)
Grave Threats to the Middle East
Lebanese Kurds wave the Kurdish flag and a flag picturing Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during Persian New Year, or Noruz, celebrations in Beirut, March 21, 2013. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
To the Victor, the Spoils
Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lipid (c) with former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who resigned his position after being indicted on charges of fraud and breach of trust, at the Feb. 5 swearing in of the 19th Knesset. (URIEL SINAI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Getting the Words Right: Israel Isn’t Occupying Palestine—It’s Conquered It
Israeli soldiers take pictures of each other in front of Israel’s illegal apartheid wall near the Qalandia checkpoint outside Ramallah, March 30, 2013. Israeli troops earlier had clashed with Palestinian demonstrators commemorating the 37th anniversary of “Land Day.” (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
The Cyrus Cylinder—Often Referred to as The “First Bill of Human Rights”
Clay, Babylon, Mesopotamia, after 539 BCE D x H: 7.8-10 x 21.9-22.8 cm British Museum, London, ME 90920 Photo: ©The Trustees of the British Museum
Two Views: King Pyrrhus and the War on Iraq
Prosthetic legs for wounded American soldiers at the Center for Intrepid rehabilitation gym at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, Aug. 7, 2012. (JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES)
July 2009 Postcard
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DEAR PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:
As you’ve noted during your meetings with Jordan’s King Abdullah, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, it’s time to grasp an “historic opportunity” to make peace in the Middle East.
It’s time for our country to be an honest broker and ensure that both sides do more than just talk about peace. It’s time to act. Arabs will abide by the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative proposed by now-King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. They’ve already agreed to establish normal relations with Israel in the context of a comprehensive peace. Israel must accept an independent Palestinian state, just as Arabs will accept an Israeli state. Both sides deserve security. That means Israel freezes settlement construction, dismantles its illegal outposts, withdraws from the territories it occupies—including Syrian land—opens borders, and dismantles the wall it has built on Palestinian lands.
DEAR SENATOR:
As the president noted during his meetings with Jordan’s King Abdullah, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, it’s time to grasp an “historic opportunity” to make peace in the Middle East.
It’s time for our country to be an honest broker and ensure that both sides do more than just talk about peace. It’s time to act. Arabs will abide by the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative proposed by now-King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. They’ve already agreed to establish normal relations with Israel in the context of a comprehensive peace. Israel must accept an independent Palestinian state, just as Arabs will accept an Israeli state. Both sides deserve security. That means Israel freezes settlement construction, dismantles its illegal outposts, withdraws from the territories it occupies—including Syrian land—opens borders, and dismantles the wall it has built on Palestinian lands.
DEAR REPRESENTATIVE:
As the president noted during his meetings with Jordan’s King Abdullah, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, it’s time to grasp an “historic opportunity” to make peace in the Middle East.
It’s time for our country to be an honest broker and ensure that both sides do more than just talk about peace. It’s time to act. Arabs will abide by the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative proposed by now-King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. They’ve already agreed to establish normal relations with Israel in the context of a comprehensive peace. Israel must accept an independent Palestinian state, just as Arabs will accept an Israeli state. Both sides deserve security. That means Israel freezes settlement construction, dismantles its illegal outposts, withdraws from the territories it occupies—including Syrian land—opens borders, and dismantles the wall it has built on Palestinian lands.
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Let There be Peace in the Holy Land
A rabbi—one of a group of imams, priests and rabbis led by French writer Marek Halter visiting the besieged Gaza Strip—plays basketball with Palestinian children at Christian Holy Family School in Gaza on March 19, 2009. The “convoy for peace” entered the Hamas-run Palestinian territory through the Erez crossing point with Israel.
