"We are not going to leave this place. We will stay here forever in the middle of Samaria. There is no power in the world that can force us out." —Israeli settler on the West Bank Ten years ago this week, the Six-Day War erupted. In its most extraordinary military triumph, the Israeli... 

Two peoples, Jewish and Palestinian, struggle for an ancient homeland Much of it looks today as it must have looked in the time of Jesus. Gnarled, green olive trees cling to the arid slopes while vineyards thrive in the valleys watered by the Jordan River. Donkeys and bony oxen pull ploughs to cultivate... 

The Middle East may be in a mess, but the Obama Administration's new envoy, George Mitchell, has several things going for him. He arrived in a hurry after the Inauguration, he knows the region from his past days as a fact-finder, and perhaps most importantly, as he told Israeli and Arab leaders,... 

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes her first official visit to the Middle East this week, the prospects for peace are bleak. But Shibley Telhami, a professor of political science at the University of Maryland and a leading U.S.-based authority on Arab-Israeli negotiations, tells TIME that... 

Last week's story of a troupe of young Palestinian musicians from Jenin serenading a group of elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors near Tel Aviv seemed like an improbable ray of hope on a darkening political landscape. Instead, the music has died in Jenin, and the episode has turned into another... 

A right-wing Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was sworn in on Tuesday, and its refusal to accept a two-state solution with the Palestinians has already set it on a collision course with the Obama Administration. Netanyahu's showdown with Washington may happen soon.... 

No one should have been surprised that there was no meeting of minds between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their inaugural summit on Monday. Although the two men proclaimed a shared commitment to having Israelis and Palestinians live in peace, their views on... 

Har Bracha — the Mount of Blessing — is a windswept hilltop settlement of Jews overlooking the Palestinian city of Nablus. According to biblical tradition, it is where Joshua and the children of Israel first entered the Holy Land. And, on Aug. 18, Mike Huckabee — a Baptist preacher,... 

The Nobel Peace Prize, presented prospectively — a triumph of hope over inexperience — threatens to become a central metaphor of Barack Obama's turbocharged political career. He seems fated to be feted for who he is not (George W. Bush) and who he might turn out to be, but not for things... 

"This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly." Thus President Roosevelt two weeks ago opened his attack on financial panic. At one stroke he won back a good half of the public's lost confidence in the U. S. banking system. A month ago equally...