'Iran Plays Chess Game'
PRAGUE -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday he is skeptical that Iran will agree to halt its nuclear program, accusing Tehran of p...
PRAGUE -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday he is skeptical that Iran will agree to halt its nuclear program, accusing Tehran of p...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.17.2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is describing his relationship with Mitt Romney in terms that are not quite as close as those used by the fo...
Claude Salhani | Posted 05.11.2012
Hezbollah is building training facilities in the eastern Bekaa Valley within close proximity of the Syrian border, reported a local Beirut newspaper earlier this week. Is Hezbollah preparing for the next confrontation and if so, whom do they expect to fight?
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.09.2012
There is no doubt that if he chooses to make serious concessions for peace, the new coalition will make his efforts easy, but the question is, does the Likud leader want to make these concessions?
Brent E. Sasley | Posted 05.08.2012
In some ways, it's a bit of a surprise that Israel's political system hasn't collapsed of its own weight. Here are four major issues that weaken the system.
AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 05.08.2012
JERUSALEM — The Israeli president's office is confirming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled early elections. In a statement ea...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.03.2012
The Palestinian conflict is going through one of its strangest stages these days. So much is going against Palestine, yet so much is going for it.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.02.2012
Neither Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu nor his Minister of Defense Ehud Barak wants anyone to believe that they consider the war option dead.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.01.2012
Professor Benzion Netanyahu was a man of rare humility, scholarship, patriotism and sacrifice. His commitment to the State of Israel and the Jewish community will long serve as an inspiration and blessing to people everywhere.
AP | DAN PERRY and DIAA HADID | Posted 04.29.2012
JERUSALEM — The former head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency has accused the country's political leaders of exaggerating the effectiveness o...
AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 04.19.2012
JERUSALEM — Israelis flocked to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial Thursday to read the names of loved ones who perished at the hands of the Nazi...
James Zogby | Posted 04.07.2012
It may still be possible to imagine a just political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But, in the real world, politics is not the work of our imagination.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.05.2012
The end of Hana Shalabi's 44-day hunger strike has produced mixed results, and has pointed out another under-reported issue -- the separation and difficulty of movement between Gaza and West Bank.
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 05.14.2012
It is no secret that Iran is developing its nuclear capacity in a clandestine and deceptive manner. Yet ironically it is our reaction to Iranian intransigence that is more likely to lead to an Iranian bomb. And it's not for the reasons that many have cited.
Death Race | Posted 05.10.2012
Tensions remain. But one reason why Monday's meeting between Netanyahu and Obama ended with less rancor than did their last tete-a-tete is that Israel is growing more comfortable with U.S. policy -- secret U.S. policy.
Dovid Efune | Posted 05.09.2012
Congress could remove doubt over Obama's Iran policies by creating a well-defined framework and a timeline that would be mandated by law, leaving no room for Iranian or Israeli uncertainty over the position of the United States.
Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.08.2012
There are obvious points of consensus in the Free World: the Iranian Regime is not nice; in fact, it's pretty horrid, both to its own people and in it...
Ben Cohen | Posted 05.06.2012
Barack Obama has tried and largely failed to rein in Israel's aggression against the Palestinians while he has been in office. But the president is finding that Israel's belligerence toward Iran is a far more serious problem that may require a much firmer hand.
AP | Posted 05.02.2012
JERUSALEM -- Israel's state comptroller has questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over allegations of taking lavish, privately paid trips abroa...
Nehad Ismail | Posted 04.24.2012
Former Knesset Speaker Avrum Burg endorsed the one-state solution in an article in Haaretz in December 2011, and called the entire left to do the same. Burg has flirted with the idea in the past, but he was never so explicitly.
AP | Posted 04.14.2012
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli prime minister accuses Iran of being behind car bombings in India, Georgia....
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.09.2012
If anything, recent months saw Hamas move much more to the political center, accepting de facto an Israel based on the 1967 borders and agreeing to reach that goal through "popular struggle" rather than "military means."
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 03.04.2012
As the people of the region watch the comings and goings of negotiations to the Jordanian capital, what will happen inside the negotiating room will be nothing more than shadow boxing.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.21.2012
In conclusion, despite everything, I look forward to a better 2012. In December 2010, I didn't expect President Obama to end the Iraq war in 2011 or eliminate the monster who killed 3000 Americans. But these things happened. So, there is hope.
AP | Posted 02.13.2012
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Vandals set fire to a mosque in the West Bank on Thursday and defaced it with Hebrew graffiti a day after a similar arson ...
AP | KAREL JANICEK | Posted 05.18.2012