January 30, 2020
by Fr. Mario Alexis Portella
President Donald Trump released his long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan Tuesday, promising a “new dawn” for the region. This comes after the failed $50 billion plan presented last July by the President’s counselor and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Dubbed the “Deal of the Century” by the White House, it aimed to establish financial infrastructure in the Palestinian [...]
January 17, 2012
by Robert R. Reilly
This month, in Amman, Jordan, Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators met for their first time in 15 months to try to restart the “peace process.” Meanwhile, the Palestinian group that rules in Gaza, Hamas, has repeated its declaration: "The battle for the liberation of Jerusalem is closer than ever and, God willing, we will win." [...]
November 10, 2010
by Deal W. Hudson
Anyone who has read my many posts and columns on the Holy Land and the political struggle between Israel and Palestine knows I have reservations about the Israeli treatment of Palestinian Christians in particular and those who inhabit the West Bank in general. I have consistently argued for the necessity of a two-state solution whereby [...]
August 30, 2010
by Deal W. Hudson
Direct peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine will resume on September 2 in Washington, D.C. The announcement of the talks has been greeted with a polite but skeptical nod from the media and a rolling of the eyes from experts in the realpolitik of international affairs. The assumption behind these dismissals is that peace talks [...]
August 8, 2010
by Deal W. Hudson
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and I are both graduates of the same university, the University of Texas at Austin. When I told him this morning that the Longhorn football team was #4 in the preseason rankings, he said, "That's good, it's bad when they are too high." Fayyad's caution about his beloved Texas Longhorns is [...]
May 3, 2010
by Deal W. Hudson
The Holy Land is a place of stories. Everyone has a story about Israel and the occupied territory called Palestine by those who live there. Many of the events are drenched in blood -- often that of relatives present or past -- which is why, when story is pitted against story, death against death, little [...]
June 6, 2009
by Ronald J. Rychlak
In this Crisis Magazine classic, Ronald J. Rychlak says that while Pius XII was no Nazi collaborator, Hitler did have a strong religious ally... the grand mufti of Jerusalem. The Jewish Holocaust of World War II is a story of human tragedy, with real victims, real villains, and real heroes. Important questions often [...]