Netanyahu Offers an Apology, but No Shift in Settlement Policy | JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told his cabinet on Sunday that the ill-timed announcement of new housing plans for a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem during a vis... (photo: AP / Rainer Jensen, Pool)The New York Times
Mideast HIV cases reach 461,000 in 2008 | Beirut gathering stresses need to evaluate AIDS prevention and care services | By Carol Rizk | Daily Star staff | Monday, March 15, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: The number of HIV positive people in... (photo: Creative Commons / savonnee)Daily Star Lebanon
Indirect Road to Palestine Palestinians and Israelis have different and possibly contradictory expectations from the indirect negotiations that the United States has pushed both sides into beginning. Israel was among the first ... (photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti)Khaleej Times IsraelMideastPalestinePhotosStates
Israel and a Red-faced Obama The humiliation last week of US Vice President Joe Biden by Israel's rightwing government showed once again who is really in charge of US Mideast policy. The stinging diplomatic insult suffered by Bid... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)Khaleej Times DiplomaticIsraelMideastPhotosPresident
Israel extends West Bank closure | Israel has extended a lockdown on the occupied West Bank and restricted access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem as tensions continue over its plans to b... (photo: AP / Oded Balilty)Al Jazeera IslamIsraelMideastPhotosWest Bank
The undoing of Obama's Cairo speech | The visit to Israel by Joe Biden, the US vice-president, may usher in a new stage in US foreign policy towards the Middle East peace process, a phase that is clearly di... (photo: White House file / Pete Souza)Al Jazeera CairoIsraelMideastPeacePhotosUS
