Politics 101

• Barak maintains position within Israeli Labor Party

  Israeli Defense Minister and Labor Party chairman Ehud Barak, well-known to Americans for his time as prime minister, salvaged his political career last night by forging a compromise within his party that allows him to keep power until 2012. Published August 6 2009 · Comment

• Israeli politicians want stronger Euro ties

  Members of Israel's parliament have launched a new initiative aimed at strengthening ties with European lawmakers. Published August 4 2009 · Comment

• Peres defends Iraeli democracy amid low public confidence

  A report showing Israelis have low confidence in Israeli's civic institutions spurred President Peres to defend Israeli's democracy. Published August 3 2009 · Comment

• Netanyahu condemns Tel Aviv attacks

  Israeli  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports a police hunt for the man accused of murdering two people at a gay community center in Tel Aviv.   Published August 2 2009 · Comment

• Jews to Obama: ‘Hands off Jerusalem’

  Jewish protesters in Jerusalem take to the streets on the holy day of Tisha B'av to protest President Obama's call to remove settlements. Published July 30 2009 · Comment

• Israel considering nod to God on cash

  An Orthodox Jewish Knesset politician wants to put "We believe in the creator of the world" on Israeli money. Published July 29 2009 · Comment

• Gates meets with Netanyahu

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Defense Secretary Robert Gates this morning in Jerusalem. Published July 27 2009 · Comment

• Israel behind other Westernized countries in preventing human trafficking

  Israeli officials on Wednesday talked about how they are dealing with the problem of human trafficking, a problem less glaring in other Westernized countries. Published July 16 2009 · Comment

• Tangling over Israel’s foreign minister

  Israel's deputy foreign minister defended his boss after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Avigdor Lieberman should not have been appointed foreign minister. Published July 13 2009 · Comment

• Reviewing the wall between Jerusalem and the West Bank

  Ben Spier, videographer for the Jersualem Post, and I conducted interviews with folks talking about the barrier between Jerusalem and the West Bank, first constructed in 2002 despite protestations by the U.N.'s International Court of Justice that the structure is illegal. Published July 12 2009 · Comment

• The long road to reform in Egypt

  A look at whether political reform is likely in Cairo following the succession of President Mubarak. Published July 12 2009 · Comment

• Iranian Jews in Israel prefer Ahmadinejad regime

  During a gathering of Mashadi Jews in Jerusalem, leaders say they want to see President Ahmadinejad keep his position. Published July 7 2009 · Comment

• Free speech in Qatar

  A press freedom advocacy group in Doha is under fire by the Qatari government. Published July 7 2009 · Comment

• Arab issues from an Israeli perspective

  Today was my first day at the Jerusalem Post. I've been assigned to cover Arab issues. Published June 28 2009 · Comment

• Egypt-Qatari relations

  Video from Qatar and Egypt Published June 28 2009 · Comment