Palestinian Negotiator: 'Defining Moment' Is Here
JERUSALEM — The chief Palestinian negotiator on Monday warned Israel that if it does not take peacemaking seriously, it will find itself dealing...
JERUSALEM — The chief Palestinian negotiator on Monday warned Israel that if it does not take peacemaking seriously, it will find itself dealing...
Henry Siegman | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
For now, blaming Palestinians for their misery is nothing more than a pretext for the continuation of a colonialist enterprise that every other democracy in the world has relegated to a shameful past.
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.
Al Jazeera English | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election when elections are held in January, Palestinian officials said. "Th...
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...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
It remains to be seen whether the elections will take place on time or, if they do, whether they will be held in Gaza as well as the West Bank.
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...
Haaretz | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
Following the arrest of a West Bank settler suspected of multiple murders and bomb attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel ...
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Palestinians are going to require a regional approach. The Arab world needs to play a much larger role than it has, primarily as an import market and as a positive influence on the overall regional business environment.
James Zogby | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
Sunday, representatives of over three dozen Arab American and American Jewish organizations met in Washington to make clear their shared commitment to a comprehensive Middle East peace.
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside...
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
J Street, an advocacy and lobbying firm created 18 months ago, is holding its first annual conference beginning Sunday, with participation from about ...
GlobalPost | Sara Sorcher | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
By Sara Sorcher AWARTA and SUSYA, West Bank -- The olive branch may be a universal symbol for peace, but in the West Bank, the olive harvest bring...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
The social and economic life in Jerusalem and the West Bank appears to be on a positive upwards trend. Salam Fayyad's government has been successful (...
Lanny Davis | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Based on these core principles, liberals should overwhelmingly demand that the Palestinians accept Israel's minimal request to bring peace.
Reuters | Sangwon Yoon | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Tony Blair, the Middle East envoy for the "Quartet" of powers - the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations, was assailed by ...
Reuters | Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ivan Karakashian | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians struggling to cope with the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the trauma of war are turning to painkillers and tran...
Ir Amim | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Many in Israel today see archeology as a tool for strengthening the connection between the Jewish people and the ancient past of the land of Israel.
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House o...
David A. Love | Posted 10.07.2009 | Impact
There are many opinions on the Mideast conflict, but one thing is certain: the situation in Gaza is a humanitarian and human rights disaster, and it cannot continue.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
Instead of this false symmetry in which charges are fabricated to appear balanced, the US president should simply lay out who has been responsible for the delayed peace process.
nytimes.com | NEIL MacFARQUHAR | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
UNITED NATIONS In a startling shift, the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council dropped its efforts to forward a report acc...
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Break down Netanyahu's speech to the UN and you have more fiction than fact, albeit fiction that has very adeptly been spun by successive Israeli governments into the lexicon of our political language.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
After listening to Israeli Labor party MK Ophir Pines-Paz speak and answer questions, it seems clear that Pines-Paz does not understand Iran, though he's clearly not alone.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
If Emanuel and Axelrod are "self-hating Jews," then I'll take more of them.
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.09.2009 | World