Khaled al-Saidi, right, said his family bought land in E1, between East Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, in the 1990s. The Israelis have told him to leave.
A battle over E1, a largely empty patch of the West Bank, speaks to the seemingly insurmountable differences between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
The warning appeared to reflect the sensitivity President Bashar al-Assad attaches to the loyalty of the country’s Palestinians, an important element of what remains of his political legitimacy.
A wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens more.
December 17, 2012
A "Christmas thought" posted on an Israeli Embassy Facebook page on Monday said that if Jesus lived in the modern world he would "probably end up being lynched in Bethlehem by hostile Palestinians."
December 14, 2012
Activist filmmakers in Cairo have released a series of Web videos urging their fellow citizens to reject a new constitution hastily approved last month by Islamist allies of President Mohamed Morsi.
December 14, 2012
Two Palestinian journalists working for Reuters were punched by Israeli soldiers as they tried to reach the scene of a fatal shooting at a West Bank checkpoint this week.
December 17, 2012
Adam Lanza, the gunman responsible for the shootings at a Connecticut school on Friday, never served in the military. That's when the strange and selfish feeling struck me: one of relief.
December 14, 2012
A recently retired Marine wonders what life will be like without the thrill of combat or the agony of taking a human life. But more than anything, he worries about the part of himself that he lost.
December 13, 2012
Ahead of the release of the Osama bin Laden manhunt thriller, "Zero Dark Thirty," critics are divided over the film's suggestion that the infliction of pain may have produced useful clues to find the terrorist leader.
Life is starting to return to normal after eight days of lethal conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The New York Times’s Jodi Rudoren reports from Gaza City on an Israeli airstrike that killed several people, including children.
Jordan faced a fourth day of protests on Friday, as demonstrators angered by a reduction in government fuel subsidies filled the streets in Amman, the capital.
Jodi Rudoren, the Jerusalem bureau chief, reports on the situation in Gaza.
Nearly nine years passed before American forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war in Afghanistan. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, after a troop surge in 2010.
Israel, stuck in violent patterns of the past, could make an effort to test Palestinian good will rather than prove Palestinian bad faith.
The Gaza clash is a reminder that Obama’s second term will have to deal with Israel and Palestine.
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