JERUSALEM -- the image of municipal workers, backed by armed Border Police, demolishing a practically new residential dwelling in East Jerusalem makes for bad publicity. It also exposes an underlying incoherence in Israels approach to the capitals Arab neighborhoods.

How far away the smiling photo-opportunities of the Annapolis peace conference now seem. Less than half a year after a bouncy Condoleezza Rice played princess of peace with all the exuberant enthusiasm of her college cheerleader days, the U.S. secretary of state has just returned home after being humiliated by an Israeli prime minister as no visiting American statesman ever has been before.

Little noticed by observers of developments surrounding Gaza withdrawal is the revolutionary premise upon which it hangs. The premise is that, with minor exceptions, the territories gained in the 1967 war are part of Israels problem, not, as was t

On March 30 an unusual gathering of Jewish, Muslim and Christian clerics sat shoulder to shoulder at a Jerusalem press conference.

In a rare show of unity, leaders of Israels three religious groups will join a worldwide interfaith campaign to stop a gay pride parade in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem voters have elected their first ultra-Orthodox Jewish mayor in a municipal poll that some had depicted as a battle for the citys soul.

Jerusalems right-wing Mayor Ehud Olmert submitted his resignation late Sunday to take part in Prime Minister Ariel Sharons government, Israeli radio reported.