Tag: Israel

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, as the then Emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, looks on after signing an agreement in Doha, Qatar. The explosions rocking the Gaza Strip may seem far removed from the flashy cars and skyscrapers of ultra-rich Qatar, but efforts to end fighting between Hamas and Israel could hinge on how the tiny Gulf state wields its influence over a militant group with few friends left. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)

Some see Qatar’s hand in collapse of Gaza talks

Adam Schreck · August 21, 2014 6:37 am

Demonstrators gather in Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza Park as they prepare to march across the Brooklyn Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Palestinian banner unfurled on NYC bridge

Washington Examiner · August 21, 2014 3:09 am

Smoke and dust rise after an Israeli strike hit Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Airstrike kills wife and child of Hamas figure

IBRAHIM BARZAKTIA GOLDENBERG · August 20, 2014 7:53 pm

French protesters urge end to Israeli airstrikes

French protesters urge end to Israeli airstrikes

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 7:21 pm

A Palestinian youth looks at damages in front of a crater caused by an Israeli strike on the al-Louh family house in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, early Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Many were killed in an airstrike on the house of the al-Louh family in Deir el-Balah, including a mother, father, three children, and two brothers of the father, according to Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Steep obstacles to any Gaza deal

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 20, 2014 1:38 pm

FILE - In this July 20, 2014 file photo, an Israeli attack helicopter shoots flares near the Israel and Gaza border. When Israel completes its damage assessment from its latest war with Hamas, it may conclude that one of the biggest casualties was its all-important relationship with the United States. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

Israeli-US relations tested once again in Gaza war

Aron Heller · August 20, 2014 6:23 am

If you want to know who was the greatest baseball player of all time, please check out the pitcher who led the American League with the lowest earned run average in 1916. (Getty images / Jim McIsaac)

Random thoughts

Thomas Sowell · August 20, 2014 1:19 am

A Palestinian man carries an injured girl into the Shifa hospital following Israeli strikes which hit Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Israel resumed its campaign of airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday in response to a barrage of Palestinian rocket fire that shattered a truce. The sudden burst of fighting has threatened to derail an Egyptian effort to end a monthlong war between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

National Security

Gaza cease-fire efforts collapse in heavy fighting

IBRAHIM BARZAKMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 19, 2014 11:56 pm

Palestinians stand in what is left of the home of Amer Abu Aisheh, one of three Palestinians identified by Israel as suspects in the killing of three Israeli teenagers, after it was demolished by the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday, Aug. 18 , 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

National Security

Egypt: No deal yet on Gaza cease-fire, more talks

Mohammed Daraghmeh · August 18, 2014 9:51 pm

UN says Gaza requires unprecedented reconstruction

UN says Gaza requires unprecedented reconstruction

Edith Lederer · August 18, 2014 6:31 pm

‘Don’t Set a Double standard for Israel on Norms of War’

‘Don’t Set a Double standard for Israel on Norms of War’

Daniel Halper · August 18, 2014 3:42 pm

In this Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 photo, Mouin Quishta holds photographs of his daughter Shahed, 8, who was killed on July 22, in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Almost a month after her death from what her father says was an Israeli tank shell, her family remains paralyzed by grief. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

In Gaza, emotional wounds of war remain unhealed

Karin Laub · August 18, 2014 10:20 am