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We were fascinated by the Arabic writing on this Palestinian flag photographed by AFP. It

The Toronto Star details how Hezbollah is gearing up for a new round of fighting

The NY Times looks at the human tragedy of a lost generation of Palestinian youths

A Cornell columnist questions the special US-Israel friendship and accuses Jewish groups of stifling debate.

A Reuters report today blames Israel for the Christian exodus from the Palestinian areas, whitewashing

The NY Times examines the state of Christian-Muslim relations in the West Bank: In the

A research paper by Marvin Kalb (in pdf format), published by Harvard, examined media coverage

Why is PA Finance Minister Salam Fayyad already in despair? See the Sunday Telegraph: There

The LA Times gave op-ed space to Professor Saree Makdisi (pictured), who wonders why the

Bloomberg News reports Islamic fundamentalists are targeting internet cafes in Gaza. One owner’s response sums

Nice report in the Baltimore Sun about Israel’s oldest kibbutz, Deganya-A, going capitalist. This is

In the last three weeks, 210,000 people watched the Israeli Antiquities Authority’s live webcam at

Correspondent Jamil Hamad takes a simplistic look at an IDF checkpoint between his Bethlehem home

Ever since the UN’s John Dugard issued a report slamming “Israeli apartheid,” the op-ed pages

NY Times photographer Tyler Hicks received a prestigious award from Pictures of the Year International

MediaBackspin was on the wrong side of the newest fauxtography scandal when bloggers discovered that

Memri describes how the web has become the latest jihad combat zone and how radical