West Bank

Obama understands that American presidents need to be Zionists if a White House brokered Mideast peace is to last.

Whatever the reason is, Sarandon seems to have forgotten that beyond the names of countries and influential people there are some universal rules we all should respect, and those are international laws.

Israel announced plans on Sunday to build hundreds of new homes in an area of the occupied West Bank the Israeli government considers part of Jerusale...

The occasion of Israel's sixtieth anniversary should become a historic national turning point, the moment to begin to bring the occupation to an end and re-channel its energy towards peace and prosperity.

In 1996 I urged Carter to understand that he could make his peace with America's Jews and Israel by having a deeper appreciation of the resentment he engenders when his advocacy on behalf of the Palestinian people seems to be at Israel's expense.

I didn't expect to hear Ehud Olmert talking like a fiery Machsom Watch activist about the suffering of Palestinians at Israeli roadblocks.

Rice is putting the finishing touches on a legacy that will add yet one more failure to her excruciating and unending list of diplomatic disasters in the region.

USA TODAY's Richard Wolf reports that President Bush predicted today that a deal can be reached within a year to turn the West Bank and Gaza Strip int...

Some of the more conservative American Jewish institutions are coming around to acceptance of the two-state solution, ending the occupation, and sharing Jerusalem.

The Israeli and Palestinian leaders have committed themselves publicly to begin sustained, face-to-face, bi-lateral negotiations of all the important issues that divide them. The goal is a peace treaty within a year.

If you didn't think there was any good news today, maybe you missed this story today in the Christian Science Monitor. The Monitor reports that the su...