A journalist with an intimate knowledge of both states explains why the comparison is wrong.
Opponents to the release of the first 26 of 104 Palestinian prisoners before peace talks resume have 48 hours in which to appeal.
The country said it will move forward with plans despite international criticism that the settlements will be built on occupied Palestine territories.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged his cabinet to approve the release of 104 Arab prisoners.
Israel will not bow to the Palestinians’ demand on the borders of their future state, but will meet their request for the release of some prisoners.
Israel has agreed to a long-standing Palestinian demand to release Palestinian prisoners in order to resume peace talks.
Israel and the Palestinians have laid the groundwork for resuming peace talks after an almost three-year stalemate, the US has announced.
Palestinians had something to celebrate when their golden boy from Gaza, Mohammed Assaf, was announced as the winner of "Arab Idol".
A striking new documentary delves into the lives of Israelis and Palestinians living together but apart.
Singer Mohammed Assaf has had messages of support from Palestine’s president, despite being arrested more than 20 times by Hamas for his singing.
Benjamin Netanyahu has curbed building projects in Jewish settlements, say media reports, in a bid to help the US revive peace talks with Palestine.
Hamas security forces in Gaza have been rounding up young men and forcing them to get haircuts on grounds that their hair is inappropriate.
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.
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.
Egypt’s campaign to shut down smuggling tunnels running under its border into the Gaza Strip threatens to throw thousands of Palestinians out of work.
The film’s critical acclaim has prompted Israel to claim a Palestinian story as its own, writes Asa Winstanley.
Israel has approved plans for the construction of 523 homes in the West Bank, despite EU warnings that this could undermine the peace process.
Three weeks later, Gaza City has almost returned to what passes for normal in this overcrowded, impoverished and war-ravaged strip of land.
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.
After embracing Islam, Karen Jayes visits the West Bank to explore her new faith.
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 plans to build thousands of new homes for its settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, defying a UN vote.
A bid for United Nations recognition of a state of Palestine is a last-ditch attempt to rescue troubled Middle East peace efforts.
The body of Palestine’s late leader Yasser Arafat has been exhumed by a team of international experts trying to discover if he was poisoned.
The Nkandla fire rages on, the battle in the Gaza Strip flares up and the new Bond film is set to hit cinemas with a bang. Stay in the know, watch Weekend 101.
Hamas’s charter includes the aspiration that "the day of judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews [killing the Jews]".
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.
US President Barack Obama on Sunday said it was "preferable" for the Gaza crisis to be ended without a "ramping up" of Israeli military action.
An Iranian lawmaker has denied his country had supplied Palestinian Islamist militants with missiles capable of hitting Israel’s commercial centre.