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Caterpillar Delays Bulldozer Shipments to Israel During Rachel Corrie Trial

(Oct. 26) -- Caterpillar, the Illinois-headquartered construction and farming equipment company, has said it will delay shipments of D9 bulldozers to Israel during the Rachel Corrie trial. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state, was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who ran over her while...

Mosque Fire Increases Israeli Settlement Tension

(Oct. 4) -- If there's one thing we've learned this year, it's that burning Islamic holy artifacts is not a good idea. Who didn't get the memo? Israeli settlers, who set fire to a mosque in Beit Fajjar, a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, on Monday before morning prayers, reports Al-Jazeera. The attack comes at...

Opinion: Why Should Hebron Settlements Scuttle Peace Talks?

HEBRON, West Bank (Sept. 29) -- Israel is a magical country, but to experience one of its greatest wonders you have to travel out to what the world calls the West Bank and the Bible calls Judea and Samaria. There, its crown jewel is the city of Hebron, first capital city of the Jewish people and where its patriarchs and...

Palestinians Blink in Settlement Poker Match

JERUSALEM (Sept. 27) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have emerged victorious -- for now -- after a tense weekend of brinkmanship over West Bank settlement building that wrong-footed the Obama administration, divided the Palestinian leadership and perhaps humiliated both of them. Netanyahu's refusal...

Netanyahu Willing to Trade Settlement Freeze for Famed Spy's Freedom

(Sept. 21) -- It's called chutzpah: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a deal to Washington. He'll extend a freeze on settlement expansion in the occupied territories -- settlements that are illegal under international law -- in exchange for Jonathan Pollard, an American who is serving a life sentence in...