Colombia's decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second country in the world - after the United States - to endorse Israel's illegal annexation of Syrian territory, Bogotá has signaled a complete…

It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza.During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu stated with…

The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning.For years, Israel has treated Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank as open spaces for military raids, settler invasions, land theft and collective punishment. The expectation was that…

The words 'killed', 'injured', 'maimed', and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.Take, for example, a headline like: "13 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Others Wounded." Though many of us can still feel a deep sense of sadness over such a tragedy,…