Palestine

Mother knew best for daughter, and now they'll graduate together at HCC

2013-05-12 07:09:00

As a mother, Howard Community College student Sonia Halboni believes she always has her children's best interests at heart, yet she can remember once when her peers didn't concur. When her daughter, Daliah, graduated from Marriotts Ridge High School two...

America's challenge in the Arab world

2013-04-04 06:49:00

When the "Arab Spring" erupted, the cry of demonstrators to their rulers was Irhal ("get out"). And now, in Cairo, Tunis and elsewhere, we again hear cry of Irhal, directed at the new leaders of what increasingly seem like the old systems,...

Israeli zealotry is not true obstacle to peace

2013-03-26 11:15:00

KAL's cartoon of March 24 depicting President Barack Obama disinterring a dove representing the two-state solution, only to see the dove shot at by "Israeli extremists" and "Palestinian extremists" is witty, clever, and inaccurate. The cartoon lazily...

The onus is on the Palestinians to talk peace

2012-12-07 09:00:00

Your editorial suggesting that United Nations recognition of Palestine will put pressure on Israel to resume peace talks is a naive repetition of the myth that Palestinians actually want peace with Israel ("Pressure on Israel to negotiate," Nov. 30)....

Will the Arabs ever accept Israel's right to exist?

2012-12-07 06:45:00

It is troubling that neither The Sun's news coverage nor its editorial regarding the United Nations' recognition of Palestine as a non-member observer state bothered to mention what Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas actually said in his speech to the...

Don't punish Palestinians for seeking justice

2012-12-06 07:30:00

Very few things unite Democratic and Republican senators in Washington. But unfortunately, one thing that does is attacking the human rights of Palestinians. And now they're are at it again. This time in the form of an anti-Palestinian amendment sponsored...

U.N. recognition of Palestinian state ups pressure on Israel to negotiate

2012-11-29 14:08:00

Over the strenuous objections of the U.S. and Israel, the United Nations General Assembly voted today to grant nonmember observer status to a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The U.N. action, which was widely anticipated, was largely a...

'Terrorist' is in the eyes of the beholder

2012-11-28 11:15:00

Rafael Medhoff's commentary notes that when the British held the Palestinian Mandate there was much Arab unrest in the face of increased Jewish immigration, and mandate authorities resorted to punitive measures to suppress it and to deport its leaders ("...

Gaza conflict different from the days of British rule

2012-11-28 04:30:00

In his commentary, Rafael Medoff compares the British occupation of Palestine in the 1930s with today's events, but the circumstances of today vary from then ("Bombs in Palestine, then and now," Nov. 26). This would include mentioning the Israelis dying...

Bombs in Palestine, then and now

2012-11-26 03:00:00

Bombs falling on Arab neighborhoods ... Homes demolished ... Civilians killed or wounded ... Soldiers shooting at anything that moves. That may sound like a description of the past week's violence between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza. But in fact, it...

For Israel, it's different this time

2012-11-19 11:48:00

Until this year, the world would have been looking at the intensifying armed confrontation between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with a sense of deja vu all over again. But this is 2012, and the political map of the Middle East has changed...

Egypt's Morsi is Hamas' new best friend

2012-11-23 03:00:00

The chameleon is finally showing his true colors. Since taking office in June, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's not-so-new president, has been equivocating, trying to balance Egypt's longstanding diplomatic and financial relationship with the West with his true...

A screenshot of the Palestinian version of the Google homepage, after the tagline was changed from 'Palestinian territories' to 'Palestine.'

2013-05-03 15:35:00

Stone-throwing Palestinian protesters take cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron, after Maysara Abu Hamdeya, a Palestinian inmate died from cancer in an Israeli hospital.

2013-04-02 00:00:00

A Palestinian protestor hurls a stone towards Israeli security forces during clashes at the entrance of the Jalama checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Jenin.

2013-02-24 00:00:00