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Egyptian Envoy: Mubarak Isn't Going Anywhere

UNITED NATIONS -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak isn't going anywhere soon because "constitutional barriers" prevent him from stepping down early, Egypt's top official at the United Nations said today. The comments came as massive anti-government protests were held in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a 15th straight...

Opinion: Could This Be the Map to Mideast Peace?

It's a cliche among foreign policy circles that everyone knows what an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will look like. Now a Washington think tank with close connections to officials in both Israel and the United States has sketched out realistic borders for a new Palestinian state. On Thursday, the Washington...

Bulldozer Driver Who Killed Rachel Corrie to Testify Behind Screen

(Oct. 20) -- It was 7 1/2 years ago that an Israeli bulldozer ran over and killed Rachel Corrie, a Washington state resident, who was protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza. Subsequently, an Israeli military investigation (never published) cleared the driver, and no charges were filed in the incident. As...

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Mosque-Burners Are 'Terrorists'

(Oct. 4) -- Play with fire and you're bound to get burned -- maybe even by your own countrymen. That's the lesson that arsonists -- allegedly disgruntled Jewish settlers -- learned today after torching a mosque and at least a dozen copies of the Koran in Beit Fajjar, a Muslim Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank....

There Was Never a 'Settlement Freeze' to Begin With

(Sept. 28) -- Middle East peace negotiations have reached an impasse with Israel's cessation of a 10-month "settlement freeze" on Sunday. But, in reality, during the 10-month period of the so-called freeze, settlement construction continued. Haaretz's Dror Etkes unpacks the numbers from Israel's Central Bureau of...