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Demonstrators protest against violence against the Palestinian or Arab community in Israel. – AFP ABOUT 25 years ago this week, I rushed to the scene of a powerful explosion in downtown Jerusalem. A 22-pound bomb packed with nails and ball bearings and live bullets had been detonated on the No 18 bus at 6:46 on the morning of Feb 25. When I got there, Orthodox Jewish men from the religious burial societies were picking up pieces of scalp and severed digits and charred flesh. A crowd of angry Israelis was shrieking, “Death to the Arabs, ” and demanding vengeance. I interviewed a distraug...

Posted : 2021-02-28 16:32 By Nicholas Goldberg Twenty-five years ago last week, I rushed to the scene of a powerful explosion in downtown Jerusalem. A 22-pound bomb packed with nails and ball bearings and live bullets had been detonated on the No. 18 bus at 6:46 on the morning of Feb. 25. When I got there, Orthodox Jewish men from the religious burial societies were picking up pieces of scalp and severed digits and charred flesh. A crowd of angry Israelis was shrieking, "Death to the Arabs," and demanding vengeance. I interviewed a distraught 22-year-old soldier sitting on the curb who told...

Twenty-five years ago, a two-state solution seemed inevitable. Today, the world is a very different place.

Column: The long, slow demise of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and why it's not coming back soon Nicholas Goldberg © (William J. Clinton Presidential Library/Sony Pictures Classics) From left, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, President Clinton and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat take a walk during the 2000 Camp David summit that failed. (William J. Clinton Presidential Library ) Twenty-five years ago this week, I rushed to the scene of a powerful explosion in downtown Jerusalem. A 22-pound bomb packed with nails and ball bearings and live bullets ha...

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the Western Wall on the final day of his tenure, January 20, 2021 (Courtesy) David Friedman still believes. The bankruptcy lawyer who became one of Donald Trump’s most trusted foreign policy advisers came into his role as US ambassador to Israel with a clearly defined conservative, pro-Israel ideology, and he left office with that worldview firmly intact. Friedman maintains that by coming in as outsiders without any diplomatic experience, he and others in the administration were able to smash...