Articles by subject: Israel A Fatah-Hamas truce is good for Palestinians (by Sami Zubaida , July/August 2011 )The Arab Spring is aiding political reconciliation in Gaza, explains Sami Zubaida Book review: Hamas by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell & Hizbullah by Naim Qassem (by Stephen Howe , May/June 2010 )When it comes to the two big Islamic political parties in the Middle East, should we fight or engage, asks Stephen Howe Battle of the Babies (by Caspar Melville , March/April 2010 )A new book argues that liberal secularism and high birth rates are fuelling a revival of religious fundamentalism. Caspar Melville speaks to its author Eric Kaufmann Hatefest (by Ian Williams , March/April 2009 )We must prevent the UN being unravelled by bigotry and conflict, argues Ian Williams Days of atonement (by Sally Feldman , January/February 2009 )Visiting Israel just weeks before the current Gaza conflict, Sally Feldman found that rising religious bigotry is one of the biggest barriers to peace Memories of a promised land (by Mike Marqusee and Eliane Glaser , May/June 2008 )Sixty years since its foundation Mike Marqusee and Eliane Glaser explore the state of Israel Editorial: Backwards and forwards (by Caspar Melville , May/June 2008 )With the decline of the old-style Christian Right, are US evangelicals growing up? Hollow Land (by Daniel Miller , July/August 2007 )The apparently random patchwork of settlement in the occupied West Bank in fact reveals a deliberate plan of colonisation and control, reports Daniel Miller Nowhere man (by Elia Zureik , September/October 2004 )Elia Zureik – born Palestine, left Israel, lives Canada – discovers under interrogation at Tel Aviv airport that he has lost his identityApocalypse Now (by Matt Cherry , Autumn 2002 )Why do so many of Americas most fundamentalist Christians support Israeli expansionism? asks Matt Cherry Palestinian women in Israel (by Aida Touma-Sliman , Summer 2002 )Aida Touma-Sliman , General Director of Women against Violence, on discrimination against Palestinian women in Israel.Book review: Raising Dust by Nicholas Rowe (by Andrew Mueller , Web Exclusive, September 2010)This study of Palestinian dance provides a rare insight into the lives of the region's people, says Andrew Mueller