At least in terms of words and declarations, there is a settlement freeze; in terms of deeds -- it is too early to know.
AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
RAMALLAH, West Bank — At the top of the list of Palestinian prisoners likely to be freed in a possible swap for an Israeli soldier is a firebran...
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN and DIAA HADID | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Hamas leaders raced to Egypt on Monday amid signs of progress on a deal to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captive Isra...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
If reaching an independent Palestinian state is in the national interest of the United States, as President Obama has said, then it would be ill advised to deny that inevitability to Palestinians.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
If Hamas is no longer Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority is no longer an authority, what options do the Palestinians have?
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian drive to ask the U.N. Security Council to endorse a state unilaterally, put forward by a top negotiator Sunday, appear...
AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
The Israelis, the Americans, the international community and any proponent of a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict couldn't dream of finding a better Palestinian leader.
Asaf Shariv | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
Peace in the Mideast can be a reality. It's one that the late-Prime Minister Rabin sacrificed his life to achieve, and toward which every single Israeli Prime Minister thereafter has worked.
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
CAIRO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S. stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesda...
Washington Post | Howard Schneider | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials on Sunday criticized the United States for what one called "back-pedaling" on demands that Israel stop settlement c...
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
JERUSALEM — The Palestinians on Sunday accused U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of undermining progress toward Mideast peace talks...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?
Tony Judt | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
We Jews should be very proud of Richard Goldstone. It would be hard to fictionalize a more convincing biography for an engaged and ethically uncompromising jurist.
Hagit Ofran | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The talk and the press reports over the last few months about settlement construction and a settlement freeze have left many confused.
Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World
NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
Israel's prime minister has instructed his government to draw up plans for a "world wide campaign" to lobby for changes in the international laws of w...
Daniel Levin | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
A recent rejection of any Judeo-Christian connection to Jerusalem has become a growing force in Palestinian nationalism that may permanently endanger Jerusalem's ancient and modern past.
Bradley Burston | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
I put off reading the Goldstone report the same way I put off scheduling a colonoscopy. I now realize it was for many of the same reasons. You know it's going to be tremendously uncomfortable, you don't want to know what they're going to find, and the consequences could be life-threatening.
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
For the Palestinians, there is still no real leadership, no one who speaks for all of them, and no one who can get them the state they so desperately want. This must change.
Mitchell Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Can we learn something from Aristotle about Israeli-Palestinian arguments? Who can persuade whom of what?
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial on war crimes charges ov...
Mort Zuckerman | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
The progress being made by the Palestinians, in terms of controlling the terrorists and criminal gangs, is one of the most promising developments to have occurred in decades.
Bradley Burston | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
The exchange of several Palestinian women prisoners for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit could signal a tectonic shift in Israeli-Palestinian peace relations.
Hagit Ofran | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
Last week, an incident that could have set the entire Middle East on fire was prevented. Netanyahu's secret plan to visit a disputed tunnel in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan was canceled.
Hagit Ofran | Posted 11.27.2009 | World