The Gaza Strip, where more than 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers during mass protests in recent weeks, is a dense and dismal sliver of land along the Mediterranean Coast between Egypt and Israel. More than 2 million people are packed tightly into a space the size of Portland,...

The Trump administration has gone further than any previous U.S. government in expressing full-throated support for Israel in the recent clashes that left dozens of Palestinians dead, isolating itself internationally and further relinquishing its role as a Middle East peace broker.

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To the editor: Apportioning blame is not useful, and I certainly don’t write to endorse every action the Israelis have taken, but it’s important to take a look at the first principles of each party to this intractable conflict, and I think there’s a clear difference. (“At least 52 Palestinians...

The seemingly endless war between Palestinians and Israelis isn’t only about substantive issues of borders and land and sovereignty. It is, in essence, a war of competing narratives. This week as Israelis celebrate 70 years of victory over repeated attempts to destroy the miraculous rebirth of...