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.
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/ 17 February 2009
Barack Obama might be more intelligent than many US presidents before him, but his stance on Gaza remains as conservative as his predecessor’s.
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/ 3 February 2009
Hawkish frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed he would smash Hamas if he becomes Israel’s prime minister after next week’s elections.
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/ 29 January 2009
An Israeli warplane on Thursday bombed an area of the Gaza Strip border known to contain smuggling tunnels to Egypt, the military said.
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/ 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama told Arab television he would not wait until the end of his administration to deal with Palestinian and Israeli peace.
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/ 27 January 2009
A soldier was reported killed close to the border with Gaza Strip on Tuesday in what Palestinians said appeared to have been an attack by militants.
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/ 27 January 2009
Israel’s white death powder spurs Amnesty to cry ‘war crime’.
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/ 26 January 2009
The European Commission announced on Monday that it was providing €58-million in humanitarian aid to vulnerable Palestinians this year.
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/ 26 January 2009
Northern Ireland is an instructive example that even the most implacable of enemies can make peace, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 22 January 2009
There is a window of opportunity to enlighten the public not on the emotive, but on the true historical and political facts of the situation.
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/ 21 January 2009
The war in Gaza may have ended but the territory remains under Hamas rule and Israeli sanctions, which could hinder efforts to rebuild the enclave.
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/ 21 January 2009
How many more Palestinians have to die before their suffering becomes a cause célèbre?
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/ 16 January 2009
The Congress of South African Trade Unions wants the South African government to cease all relations with Israel and close down the Israeli embassy.
Kgalema Motlanthe this week slammed the attacks in Gaza, dubbing the offensive ”sheer savagery and brutality” that caused a ”deep sense of revulsion”.