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/ 14 November 2010
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed senior ministers a US plan for resuming peace talks with Palestinians, a source said on Saturday.
World powers on Tuesday criticised Israel’s decision to build 1 300 new settler homes in east Jerusalem.
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/ 8 November 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Vice-President Joe Biden that only a credible military threat can deter Iran from building a nuclear
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/ 11 October 2010
Israel’s PM offered on Monday to renew a partial settlement construction freeze in exchange for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told Arab powers he may seek US recognition for a Palestinian state taking in all of the West Bank.
Direct talks with Israel will not resume unless it halts the building of Jewish settlements on occupied land, the Palestinian leadership said.
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/ 27 September 2010
Israel allowed its halt in construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to expire on Monday, defying a call to extend the moratorium.
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/ 26 September 2010
The United States launched a frantic bid to avert the collapse of Middle East talks ahead of a deadline on Sunday.
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/ 26 September 2010
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Saturday to do everything possible to make peace negotiations with Israel succeed.
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/ 24 September 2010
Israel has urged the Palestinians not to abandon peace negotiations over the imminent expiry of a West Bank settlement moratorium.
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/ 23 September 2010
Israel should extend its settlement building moratorium and Arab states should move toward normal ties with the Jewish state, Barack Obama said.
US President Barack Obama is to make a plea at the United Nations on Thursday for international support for the Middle East peace process.
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/ 17 September 2010
There are those who lead and those who follow, and the <i>Al-Ahram</i> newspaper clearly feels that President Hosni Mubarak fits in to the former.
The US believes Israel and the Palestinians are making progress towards resolving a dispute over settlement building that threatens peace talks.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said Israeli and Palestinian leaders were "serious" about reaching a peace deal.
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/ 15 September 2010
Israeli and Palestinian leaders failed in talks on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over settlement building but remain convinced they can reach a deal.
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/ 13 September 2010
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel could not extend a moratorium on housing construction in West Bank settlements.
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/ 5 September 2010
A deal with the Palestinians will require a new approach to issues that have defied resolution, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders have cleared the first hurdle in what promises to be difficult negotiations.
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/ 3 September 2010
Militant groups in the Gaza Strip said on Thursday they had joined forces to step up attacks against Israel, possibly including suicide bombings.
United States President Barack Obama urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Wednesday not to let the chance for peace slip away.
President Barack Obama steps into Middle East peace efforts on Wednesday in a bold bid to relaunch direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders head to the US this week to relaunch direct peace talks, but with neither side expecting a long-elusive breakthrough.
Israel and the Palestinians accepted on Friday an invitation by the United States and other powers to restart direct talks on September 2.
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said Israel must accept the deployment of an international force in a future Palestinian state before talks can begin.
United States President Barack Obama urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to resume direct peace talks by September.
For years, the mantra that America’s intimate alliance with Israel was as good for the US as it was the Jewish state went largely unchallenged.
Relations between Israel and its staunchest ally, the US, have suffered a "tectonic rift", according to Israel’s ambassador to Washington.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday defended the Gaza blockade and a raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Palestinian enclave.
US President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week.
US President Barack Obama considers plan B for Middle East settlement as relations between Israel and United States deteriorate.
Israeli troops and tanks left the Gaza Strip on Saturday, witnesses said, ending an incursion into the Hamas-ruled enclave.