Despite U.S. pressure, the idea of a Palestinian state seems further away than ever, as Israel’s Jews move rightward and its Palestinians fear a backlash.
A huge ice sheet appears to have melted about 120,000 years ago, when temperatures were similar to those on Earth today, according to a DNA study that mapped octopus movements.
Sally Abed, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and Alon-Lee Green, a Jewish Israeli, found polarization in America over the war in Gaza. They also found longing for a new approach.
Sally Abed, 32, and Alon-Lee Green, 35, leaders of Standing Together, an organization that works for peace between Israel and Palestinians, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.