JERUSALEM -- The "Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" highlights both the good intentions and the misplaced conceptions of its promulgators. Five years after its adoption, it lingers not as a tool for the achievement of a sustainable agreement but as a burdensome impediment to its realization.

In recent weeks, Abir Kopty and Hannah Safran have demonstrated nearly every day against Israels conflict in Lebanon and Gaza. Even as the dreaded sirens have sounded warning of Hezbollah rocket attacks, Kopty, an Israeli Arab, and Safran, an Isra

The most damaging outcome of the current phase of Israeli-Palestinian violence is the near-total collapse of the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become the prisoner of public opinion polls and their manipulators. Survey results are paraded, alternately, to support inaction, justify questionable policy, defend recalcitrance, or uphold paralysis.

While I appreciate Naomi Chazans concern over the fate of the two-state solution in her article "Promote negotiations or abandon the two-state solution", something, somehow, somewhere in the classical political approach she exposes sounds to me li

The opportunity that emerged after the death of Yasser Arafat, the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the approval of the Sharon disengagement plan, is dissipating quickly. Unless a concerted effor

Galit Hasan-Rokem, a professor of Hebrew literature and Jewish folklore at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, described as "a truly a great moment" the public gathering on December 29, 2000 of 2,000 Palestinian and Jewish women.

TWO ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWISH WOMEN SHOUT INSULTS AT A GROUP OF WOMEN HOLDING A PRAYER MEETING AT THE WESTERN WALL, JUDAISMS HOLIEST SITE. THE WOMEN WON THE RIGHT TO PRAY THERE AFTER A COURT BATTLE.