By Nelson Graves Today we published an article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one of the world’s thorniest and most important issues. The article is the fifth in our series of “decoders” that provide essential background to complicated global...
Palestinians and Israelis have been locked for decades in an intractable struggle. Its roots lie in history, religion and national identity. A Jewish man in front the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, 11 November 2009. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) This...
By far the loudest cries of alarm about the Iran nuclear agreement are coming from the only country in the region that has a nuclear arsenal — Israel. A view of Israel’s Sorek nuclear reactor center near the central Israeli town of Yavne. 5 July 2004. (AP Photo, file...
Street celebrations following a nuclear deal in Tehran, Iran, 14 July 2015. Iran is emerging from its reputation as a Middle East pariah. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) By Jonathan Lyons The geopolitical logic in support of the Iran arms deal is certainly compelling,...
Unsettling as it was to be compared with Hitler’s spin doctor, it was a reminder of the intense scrutiny to which reporting on Israel-Palestine is subjected. That headline, above mug shots of the two of us, kicked off an article in 2010 on a website dedicated to...