JERUSALEM — Israel on Wednesday proposed a 10-month halt to new construction in West Bank settlements as a step toward restarting Mideast peace ...
Rebecca Vilkomerson | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
The US government should examine the appropriateness of US non-profits receiving tax breaks for providing funds to Israeli settlements that undermine US foreign policy and hopes for peace in the Middle East.
Pamela Samuelson | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
What stands out after an initial review of the Google Book Search agreement is that changes were made to placate the governments of France, Germany, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice.
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 | 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 11.05.2009 | World
As first lady, Hillary Clinton was the darling of Palestinians and Arabs when late in Bill Clinton's term she uttered the hot button word "Palestine." Since then she has flip-flopped depending on the political winds.
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...
Mitchell Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Can we learn something from Aristotle about Israeli-Palestinian arguments? Who can persuade whom of what?
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
The summit meeting called for by President Obama on the eve of the opening of the UN general council is both good and bad news for Palestinians.
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
After decades of using the plight of the Palestinians as a useful stick with which to beat the West and as an excuse for their own domestic illegitimacies, Arab leaders finally need to be held to account.
AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — U.S. Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell is in Israel to try and kick start Israeli-Palestinian talks before the two sides meet at t...
Ir Amim | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
One afternoon in early June, I sat down with Khader Dibs, a public figure in Shuafat RC. Dibs is a middle-aged father who heads the camp's UNWRA-run sanitation services.
Hagit Ofran | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
Following the meeting between US Senator Mitchell and Israeli PM Netanyahu, it seems that Israel and the US are getting close to some kind of agreemen...
AP | JEN THOMAS | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
JERUSALEM — The Obama administration's policy on Israel is misguided, puts too much emphasis on the issue of settlements and ignores the bigger ...
Haaretz | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered diplomats to use an old photograph of a former Palestinian religious leader meeting Adolf Hitler to cou...
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Israel, an ally of the United States, is testing Obama's strength and resolve as much as a number of American foes.
AFP | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
France has summoned the Israeli ambassador in Paris to demand a halt to Jewish settlement building in east Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchne...
AFP | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
Russia called on Israel Tuesday to put an immediate halt to a controversial building project in occupied Arab east Jerusalem, saying the plan violated...
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel's deputy prime minister said Tuesday the Obama administration's call to freeze West Bank settlement construction undermines p...
Jerusalem Post | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be out of the country for most of next week when two major US policy makers, Middle East envoy George Mitchell...
Bradley Burston | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
Settlement in remote areas has siphoned off critically needed funds for infrastructure, housing and social welfare in central Israel, as well as funds for dangerous roadways on which 440 died last year.
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
Despite consistent US efforts to convince Israel to freeze all settlement activities in the West Bank, in accordance with the 2003 Road Map, US offici...
Associated Press | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
The Foreign Ministry on Monday said the EU ambassador to Israel was called in for explanations after the European Commission said Israel's settlement ...
Haaretz | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that he had deliberately chosen to avoid taking part in the debate over West Bank settlement, as his ow...
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.26.2009 | World