Gaza

Palestinians abroad are looking beyond the aging leader.

Israel demands Palestinians obtain building permits but rarely grants them.

Some technological claims panned out in recent wars, but others flopped.

To break the cycle of violence, the United States could try to make both Israel and Palestine more responsive democracies.

An exiled foe of Mahmoud Abbas helped engineer the Arab peace deals with Israel that are infuriating the aging Palestinian president.

Israel’s prime minister has now served in the role for as long as the country’s founding father. Voters support him because they’re convinced he keeps them safe and reduces their international isolation.

On the podcast: Yousef Bashir describes growing up in Gaza during the second Palestinian uprising.

A virtual gas hub could create real cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean.

An Israeli-Palestinian truce ended the fighting but didn’t address the issues driving it.

David Shulman’s diaries of resisting the Israeli occupation show the limits of activism in the face of rampant dispossession and despair.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has tried to keep the Islamist group in check, but the situation in Gaza is as unstable as ever.

Netanyahu may be changing his mind about war. If he does, it will be thanks to an environmental and health disaster that threatens to cross the border.

Netanyahu outmaneuvers rivals, heads off early election.

The British Labour leader misses no opportunity to condemn the West, but he’s full of praise for violent revolutionaries.

Kushner hopes cuts will pressure Palestinians to accept a U.S. peace plan.

The last thing Israelis and Palestinians need now is another failed blueprint. Stabilizing Gaza is more important.

The most important motive for the “Great March of Return” has been anger at Gaza's terrible conditions for daily life.

Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority are undermining democracy. Only a new generation can bring real change.

Israel’s use of consumer drones against protesters heralds a dangerous, lawless age of conflict.

Israel has a right to defend its borders, but shooting unarmed protesters who haven’t breached its frontier is disproportionate and illegal.