News and Analysis for August 17, 2007

Once upon a time, in a decade not long ago (the 1990s, to be exact), the exchanges that took place between Israelis and Palestinians were known ‘round the world as the “peace process”, not “the conflict”. Sadly, over the last seven years, since Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary compound and the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the Israeli-Palestinian arena has seemed to generate only one depressing headline after another – with just the rarest bits of hopeful news scattered here and there. Read More.