Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday at the opening of the Knesset winter session that he would renew a temporary halt of settlement building in the West Bank in exchange for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state… Continue reading
The Arab League announced on Friday that it supports Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to stop peace talks with Israel following Israel’s refusal to halt building in West Bank settlements… Continue reading
Thursday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Libya for the Arab League meeting and is seeking backing for his decision to quit direct talks with Israel until the settlement construction moratorium is renewed. There’re no… Continue reading
Remember, this isn’t the first time in the last month that Obama has set himself up for humiliation on the issue. He also made his big UN speech which presented the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the world’s most important issue and made the potentially embarrassing prediction that he would resolve the conflict within… Continue reading
Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting Netanyahu said “we are in the midst of sensitive diplomatic contacts with the US administration in order to find a solution that will allow the continuation of the talks. Now is…” Continue reading
Contents of a White House letter have been published saying what the Obama Administration will offer Israel if it extends the moratorium on building inside West Bank settlements for two months. The specific proposals reveal again how the White House doesn’t seem to understand the situation, or perhaps is… Continue reading
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, rushed to the region for talks with Abbas and Netanyahu on Thursday and Friday, underscoring the sense of urgency. A U.S. emissary is also racing against the clock to salvage Mideast peace negotiations facing collapse because of a spat over Israeli settlements. The EU is part of the Middle East Quartet, which… Continue reading
While negotiations on a future peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians have just been resumed, the Arab League draws a line in support of the Palestinian decision not to recognize a Jewish State. As a consequence, the members of the Arab League will also not… Continue reading
Senior Hamas figures and the Hamas-affiliated media continued to attack Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the relaunching of direct negotiations and the PA security forces’ extensive detentions of Hamas operatives… Continue reading
During their meeting in Washington (april, 2004), Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George Bush exchanged letters aimed at achieving a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians in the context of the Roadmap and the prime minister’s Disengagement Plan… Continue reading
A persistent myth of the Arab-Israeli conflict is that Palestinian terrorists kill Jews in order to “disrupt the peace process,’’ and that the best response to terrorism is to persevere with negotiations. That explanation for last week’s carnage was repeated everywhere… Continue reading
There is no guarantee that talks between Israel and the Palestinians will succeed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Jewish New Year greeting released Tuesday, but he promised to strive for… Continue reading
The new round of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will fail to produce any positive results for the oppressed Palestinian people. The real representatives of the Palestinian people (i.e. Iran’s proxy Hamas) had serious qualms about these negotiations… Continue reading
First of all, the recognition of Israel as the national state of the Jewish People, the end of the conflict and of claims on Israel, that will stem from recognizing it as the national state of the Jewish People, and the establishment of tangible security measures… Continue reading
The U.S. announcement inviting Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for direct talks shows quite clearly, though unintentionally, why the talks will fail… Continue reading
Hamas leader Khaled Mash’al has recently presented Hamas’ ideological and strategic alternative to the PA’s approach towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He slammed the PLO leadership, denied the… Continue reading
Every year thousands of Palestinian patients from Gaza and the West Bank are treated in Israeli hospitals across the country. Patients also come from… Continue reading
For far too long now it has been unfashionable in Europe to speak up for Israel. In the wake of the recent incident on board a ship full of anti-Israeli activists in the Mediterranean, it is hard to think of a more… Continue reading
Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called “Palestine” after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world’s stage more… Continue reading
A clueless anti Semite attacked the Jewish State on the web in an article with the above title, reviewing a book called Israeli Occupation. INN staff rebutted. Read our answers and… Continue reading
The connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel cannot be denied. The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 year ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today. Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital… Continue reading
It is important to understand that the current controversy over construction in east Jerusalem is neither a public relations’ problem nor a bilateral policy dispute. It arises because of things having nothing directly to do with this specific point… Continue reading
Many people seem to think that the Israel-Palestinian or Arab-Israeli conflict or the “peace process” is the world’s most important issue. So who’s going to determine whether it gets resolved or not… Continue reading
The Palestinians will demand a United Nations resolution declaring that all lands seized by Israel in 1967 are occupied territory because of stalled peace talks, which will only resume if Israel halts settlement building, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said… Continue reading
The Palestinian Authority has been negotiating an understanding with the Obama administration regarding a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negotiations with Israel… Continue reading
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