| |   Study shows religion is a potent force for cooperation, conflict
| "Moralizing gods, emerging over the last few millennia, have enabled large-scale cooperation and sociopolitical conquest even without war," says University of Michigan anthropologist Scott Atran, lead author ...
Three Palestinians 'restart' hunger strike
| Three Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are refusing food, despite the signing this week of a deal to end a mass prisoner hunger strike, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Thursday. | An official ...
Syrian opposition leader offers to resign
| The president of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the country's main opposition bloc, has offered to resign after a key activist group accused him of monopolising power, just two days after he was re-electe...
Two Palestinians 'restart' hunger strike
Two Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are refusing food, despite the signing this week of a deal to end a mass prisoner hunger strike, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Thursday. | An official from...
Israel razes settler outpost structures
| Israeli forces demolished four structures in the Oz Zion and Ramat Migron settlement outposts in the West Bank early Thursday, prompting clashes that saw six people arrested, Israeli officials said. | "A temp...
Nonviolent and Community Action Produces Results in Mideast
| This week, two totally different cases saw real progress towards resolution due to persistence, focus on achievable results and the use of nonviolent means. Palestinian prisoners and supporters of their just ...
Israeli tank fire hurts seven in Gaza: medics
| An Israeli tank shell fired into the Gaza Strip on Thursday wounded seven Palestinians, leaving two of them in critical condition, Palestinian medical officials told AFP. | The shell hit near the Karni crossi...
Jihad in America: Quiet, effective, deadly
| So would Andrew McCarthy. | The author of “Willful Blindness” has now presented us with further proof that Islam is a dire threat … and our government is complicit. In his new book, “The G...
Arafat's moneyman targeted in corruption probe
Ramallah: The late Yasser Arafat's powerful moneyman is the target of the highest-profile Palestinian corruption probe to date, facing allegations he siphoned off millions of dollars in public funds, the chief ...
Peace-making Without Mediators
| A surplus of mediators have been around all the time, including the heavy weight Quartet of the UN, US, EU and Russia, as well as heaps of terms of reference of UNSC resolutions, bilateral signed accords and ...
The Palestinian tragedy mustn't be used to spark a Jewish one
| Not a day goes by when I don't think about their tragedy. How can I not? When I walk around the beautiful Jerusalem neighborhood I've lived in half my life, their houses gaze at me. When I stroll through Jaff...
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