Israel’s continuing developments on the West Bank imperil Obama’s model for peace in the Middle East.
There has been a mixed response to the controversial billboard campaign that graphically explains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
It’s not Iran or Iran’s agents in Baghdad who have dealt the heaviest strategic blow to Saudi Arabia’s influence in the Middle East — but Cairo.
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/ 16 February 2011
The irony in an opinion piece by Zev Krengel concedes that there are legal consequences to illegal actions.
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/ 4 February 2011
The protests blazing across the Arab world in the past three weeks represent a radical opening up in the frozen politics of the Middle East.
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/ 24 January 2011
The peace process is a sham. Palestinians must reject their officials and rebuild their movement.
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/ 24 January 2011
Massive new leak lifts lid on negotiations, PLO offered up key settlements in East Jerusalem and concessions were made on refugees and Holy sites.
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/ 19 December 2010
Human Rights Watch has requested the US penalise Israel by withholding aid equal to the amount Israel gives in subsidies to West Bank settlements.
Israel’s enemies have a strategy of provoking confrontation and then playing the victim, argues <b>David Saks</b>.
Israeli defence minister warns that go-ahead
for Jerusalem park could prejudice peace talks.
Arabs and many others have been venting their fury over Israel’s violent interception of the Gaza freedom flotilla.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday denied a crisis was rocking relations with Israel, as one of the worst rows in years between the allies rumbled on
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/ 23 February 2010
Ireland and Britain are checking reports that more fake passports were used by Israeli suspects in the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai.
Israel said on Wednesday the use foreign-born Israeli identities by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamas militant did not prove Mossad did it.
Peace movements have always existed among Palestinians — but the price of protest is high
Egyptian security forces clashed with a pro-Palestinian convoy led by George Galloway, a British member of parliament.
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/ 16 December 2009
Israel and Palestinians could clinch a peace deal within six months if the Jewish state halted settlement growth, Mahmoud Abbas tells paper.
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/ 4 December 2009
Caroline Suzman’s exhibition Crossing Over is an attempt to portray what remains of everyday life amid the Middle East conflict.
Israel lifted restrictions at two checkpoints on Friday, after Barack Obama urged Israel to take concrete steps to improve the lives of Palestinians.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday voiced confidence that the US can help get ”serious negotiations” between Israel and the Palestinians back on track.
Most Jewish Israelis want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to back the two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, said a poll on Friday.
Among questions being raised is whether Israel used disproportionate force and failed to protect civilians.
Evidence shows Israel targeted ordinary citizens during the Gaza offensive, writes Clancy Chassay and Julian Borger.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the incoming Israeli right-wing government to freeze settlements.
Eleventh-hour talks on a Israel-Hamas prisoner swap appeared to collapse on Tuesday as both sides accused each other of about-turns and bad faith.
Salam Fayyad announced on Saturday he would resign in a move to bolster unity talks between Fatah and Hamas, but Mahmoud Abbas has asked him to stay.
A member of a Gaza rocket squad was killed and two others were wounded on Saturday in what a Palestinian medic said was an Israeli airstrike.
Israeli leaders and military commanders deemed by Iran to be "war criminals" should be executed, a senior cleric said in a Friday prayer sermon.
Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday to press for Palestinian statehood, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Benjamin Netanyahu.
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/ 27 February 2009
Last-ditch efforts to form a broad-based Israeli coalition failed on Friday, fuelling concerns about prospects for peace with the Palestinians.
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/ 27 February 2009
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was making a fresh bid on Friday to persuade Tzipi Livni to bring her centrist Kadima party into an Israeli coalition.
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/ 26 February 2009
The rival Palestinian movements are holding reconciliation talks on Thursday aimed at paving the way for the creation of a unity government.