Gregg Carlstrom

Benjamin Netanyahu Heads To Washington Next Month To Push America Into A New War

Benjamin Netanyahu will address the US Congress next month in an apparent bid to derail an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program.

Gregg Carlstrom
By Gregg Carlstrom

Shimon Peres, right, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits between them during the annual ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, Israel.  Photo: Gali Tibbon/AP TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel and Hezbollah seem closer to war lately than

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The Israeli Government Is On The Brink Of Collapse

A controversial bill being considered by the Israeli parliament has split the Israeli government and looks likely to bring about its demise.

Gregg Carlstrom
By Gregg Carlstrom
Palestinian Access to Courts

TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli government is teetering on the brink of collapse, its legislative body almost certain to be dissolved within days, and the catalyst is a largely symbolic draft law that few understand — and which may never actually pass. Ministers spent four hours last week holding a stormy debate on a bill declaring Israel the

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The ‘Silent Intifada’ In Jerusalem Grows Louder By The Day. Here’s How Things Got So Bad

The ‘silent intifada’ in Jerusalem grows louder by the day. Here’s how things got so bad.

Gregg Carlstrom
By Gregg Carlstrom

JERUSALEM — The press here has been talking recently of a “silent intifada”: the city has been convulsed by violence for months, but most of it happens at night, bottled up inside the Palestinian districts of occupied East Jerusalem. By Thursday afternoon, though, after two shootings and a day of clashes, the situation in Jerusalem had become

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