Over the last week President Obama has held a series of intense meetings on Afghanistan with core members of his national security team and in doing so has shown a seriousness and commitment to decisions about war and peace that was so clearly lacking under the previous administration.

However,...

Palestinians today woke up to two news stories -- one that made them celebrate and one that made them cringe. Unfortunately, the U.S. was not involved in the celebratory story.

Yesterday, the Palestine Liberation Organization's representative at the United Nations in Geneva pulled a resolution at the Human Rights...

For the last 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was basking in the glow of patriotic support by his most ardent right wing supporters for standing up to the United States at yesterday's trilateral meeting. Prior to his meeting with President Obama and President Abbas, Netanyahu's aides were bragging...

An informal group of American citizens, including prominent Christian leaders, has just released a letter today making the point that they will stand behind President Obama as he works to secure America's national interests in the Middle East. All appear to agree that America's national interest, Israel's and the...

In a move sure to antagonize the Onion for not having come up with it first, former U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee endorsed Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and rejected the "two-state solution." Instead, the Southern Baptist preacher suggested that Palestinians should "have a place of their...

This past Friday, Hamas engaged in an intense battle with a Salafist group called Jund Ansar Allah (the Soldiers of the Supporters of God). The instigation for the battle came after the leader of the group, Abdul Latif Musa, gave a Friday sermon calling for the immediate implementation of an...

The Wall Street Journal today reports that Hamas Chief Khaled Meshaal told Jay Solomon and Julien Barnes-Dacey in an interview that "We along with other Palestinian factions in consensus agreed upon accepting a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines. This is the national program. This is our program....

Sometimes, it's hard to take "yes" for an answer.

Israel has had a host of American visitors in the last several days. Fred Hof from the Mitchell Team showed up last week before going on to Syria in attempts to conclude a peace agreement that would permanently quiet down...

Israel and the United States have already begun negotiations over whether there is going to be a two-state solution or not, and the Israelis have begun employing all the negotiating tricks they have become accustomed to using with the Palestinians. But there is a significant difference in the disparity of...