United States President Barack Obama made his first official visit to Israel this week, amid warnings from some of Israel’s leading supporters.
US President Barack Obama has said that settlement building in the occupied West Bank did not "advance the cause of peace".
Barack Obama will travel to the West Bank Thursday to meet Palestinian leaders dismayed by his failure to make good on soaring expectations for peace.
Barack Obama has headed to Israel on a mission to soothe tensions with his hosts but faces scepticism about his plans to thwart Iran’s nuclear threat.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday chose Moshe Yaalon, an ex-general and vice-premier, to be Israel’s next defence minister.
From March 11 to March 17, a series of events takes place around the country under the rubric of "Israel Apartheid Week."
Analysts have expressed surprise at comments made by a DA councillor who said describing Israel as an apartheid state amounted to hate speech.
The narrative of filmmaker Mohammed Alatar’s disturbing ‘Jerusalem: The East Side Story’ begins predictably in 1947 with the division of Palestine.
Syria has condemned Israeli drilling for oil in the occupied Golan Heights as a "flagrant violation" of UN Security Council resolutions.
Israel has no chance of a permanent peace accord with the Palestinians, a powerful political partner of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Syria has threatened to retaliate what it says was an Israeli raid as its allies denied a strike that threatened to take the fight beyond its borders.
Israeli prime minister’s aides accused United States president of interfering in Israel’s elections.
Ahead of elections in Israel, ultra-ultra-nationalists using overtly racist rhetoric are surging in the polls.
South Africa must use its influence to take down the ineffective quartet and reach a two-state solution, writes Bongie Mcakuvana.
Israel has approved plans for the construction of 523 homes in the West Bank, despite EU warnings that this could undermine the peace process.
Despite its prosaic name, E1 has the potential to kill off hopes for a viable Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, say opponents.
Israel moved ahead with plans to build 3 000 settler homes in one of the most sensitive areas of the West Bank.
Wonder has cited the situation in the Middle East and his antiwar stance for withdrawing from the Friends of the Israel Defence Force’s benefit gig.
Despite international protest, Israel is going ahead with settlement plans to build 3 000 homes in a critical area of the West Bank.
Israel said it was withholding this month’s transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, after the UN’s recognition of a Palestinian state.
Israel plans to build thousands of new homes for its settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, defying a UN vote.
A group of Nobel Peace Prize winners, prominent artists and activists has issued a call for an international military boycott of Israel.
A bid for United Nations recognition of a state of Palestine is a last-ditch attempt to rescue troubled Middle East peace efforts.
Although Hamas leadership is in hiding, Israel’s missiles have failed to obliterate its authority, writes Chris McGreal in Beit Lahiya.
The support of the US and Britain allows Israel to continue its policy of occupation and aggression, says Seumas Milne.
Hamas’s charter includes the aspiration that "the day of judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews [killing the Jews]".
Egypt has announced that a ceasefire had been reached to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, starting later in the day.
An explosion has hit a public bus in the heart of Tel Aviv, wounding at least 10 people, says Israel’s ambulance service.
The United States has blocked a UN Security Council statement condemning the escalating conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The force used by Israel in its attacks on Hamas militants in Gaza is "disproportionate", the department of international relations said.
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/ 20 November 2012
The UN chief has called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the US Secretary of State has headed to the region with a peace message.
The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s on-going offensive reached 100 on Monday, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said.