Peace Talks Snag on Jerusalem
Peace talks between Israel and Palestinians were set to resume today as leaders were already entangled in a first major clash: over whether or not they agreed that Jerusalem would be part of the...
View ArticleMideast Strife Spills Onto Facebook
Facebook has now had to take on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Guardian reports, on account of its standard IDing of members by country. Jewish settlers in the West Bank were fuming when the site...
View ArticleRadical Settlers Fight Palestine —and Israel
A pipe bomb exploded Wednesday night outside the Jerusalem home of a dovish Israeli professor—where authorities also found fliers promising a $300,000 reward to anyone who killed members of a leftist...
View ArticleSoldiers Drag Jewish Settlers From Disputed Hebron Building
Dozens of masked Jewish settlers vandalized a Palestinian house in Hebron today, just after Israeli soldiers dragged 250 Jewish settlers out of another disputed building, Haaretz reports. The move...
View ArticleIsraeli Settlers Defy Demolition, Blame Obama
Jewish settlers whose tiny outpost in the West Bank was demolished by the Israeli army—just days after Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington—returned hours later and started rebuilding, reports the...
View ArticleIn Murders' Wake, Israel OKs New Settlements
A mere day after an Israeli family of five was massacred while they slept , the AP reports that Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements. The homes will be...
View Article1st Americans Took 'Break' for 10K Years
Nothing like taking a break on a long trip—for, say, 10,000 years. That's how long the first human settlers stayed in Beringia—the region that once bridged Siberia and Alaska—before inhabiting North...
View ArticlePeace Talks Snag on Jerusalem
Peace talks between Israel and Palestinians were set to resume today as leaders were already entangled in a first major clash: over whether or not they agreed that Jerusalem would be part of the...
View ArticleMideast Strife Spills Onto Facebook
Facebook has now had to take on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Guardian reports, on account of its standard IDing of members by country. Jewish settlers in the West Bank were fuming when the site...
View ArticleRadical Settlers Fight Palestine —and Israel
A pipe bomb exploded Wednesday night outside the Jerusalem home of a dovish Israeli professor—where authorities also found fliers promising a $300,000 reward to anyone who killed members of a leftist...
View ArticleSoldiers Drag Jewish Settlers From Disputed Hebron Building
Dozens of masked Jewish settlers vandalized a Palestinian house in Hebron today, just after Israeli soldiers dragged 250 Jewish settlers out of another disputed building, Haaretz reports. The move...
View ArticleIsraeli Settlers Defy Demolition, Blame Obama
Jewish settlers whose tiny outpost in the West Bank was demolished by the Israeli army—just days after Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington—returned hours later and started rebuilding, reports the...
View ArticleIn Murders' Wake, Israel OKs New Settlements
A mere day after an Israeli family of five was massacred while they slept , the AP reports that Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements. The homes will be...
View Article1st Americans Took 'Break' for 10K Years
Nothing like taking a break on a long trip—for, say, 10,000 years. That's how long the first human settlers stayed in Beringia—the region that once bridged Siberia and Alaska—before inhabiting North...
View ArticleIndigenous Genocide Caused the Little Ice Age
The arrival of Europeans in the Americas didn't just kill off millions of people—it may have also helped trigger the Little Ice Age, CNN reports. A new study says so many indigenous people died of...
View ArticleLost Colony of Roanoke's 'Mystery Is Over'
The legend goes that the Lost Colony of Roanoke might have been the first English settlement in North America had its inhabitants not mysteriously vanished. But "they were never lost … it was made up,"...
View ArticleBiden Targets Israelis Who Attack West Bank Palestinians
President Biden is expected to issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who've been attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory, according to four people familiar with...
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