May 13, 2013

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on May 13, 2013

Oil-rich Qatar pushing to make its name as a Mideast peace broker

Published on May 7, 2013

When it comes to the latest Arab peace initiative, two questions are circulating in Washington: Why Qatar? And why now?

Report: Israel rejects 1967 borders ‘precondition’

Published on May 3, 2013

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, has reportedly refused to accept the 1967 border as the basis for a final Israeli-Palestinian border prior to negotiations.

Netanyahu says he would put peace deal to referendum

Published on May 2, 2013

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would put any peace deal with the Palestinians to a referendum, raising expectations that direct negotiations might soon resume following a two-year stalemate.

Israeli officials welcome Arab League peace plan

Published on May 1, 2013

The Prime Minister's Office of Israel said it was ready to restart negotiations without preconditions after welcoming the Arab League's Middle East peace plan allowing for agreed-upon land swaps.

May 1, 2013

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on May 1, 2013

Kerry calls new Arab League peace stance ‘big step forward’

Published on April 30, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday the Arab League's acknowledgment that Israelis and Palestinians may have to swap land in any peace deal was "a very big step forward."

Arab League agrees to peace with land swaps

Published on April 30, 2013

The Arab League agreed to a Middle East peace plan that would allow for agreed-upon land swaps.

April 30, 2013

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 30, 2013

P.A.’s Fayyad calls on Arab countries to honor pledges

Published on January 14, 2013

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad called on Arab countries to pay their aid pledges, in order to prevent the end of the PA.

Arab League to hold meeting on Gaza, diplomat says

Published on November 14, 2012

The Cairo-based Arab League will discuss the Israeli attack on Gaza at a special meeting to be held either on Thursday or Saturday, a senior League diplomat told Reuters.

Russia says downing of Turkish plane not provocation

Published on June 26, 2012

Russia said on Tuesday Syria's shooting down of a Turkish warplane should not be seen as a provocation and warned world powers against using the incident to push for stronger action against Damascus.

March 30, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on March 30, 2012

March 28, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on March 28, 2012

February 16, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on February 16, 2012

Why doing something on Syria is a strategic concern for the US

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on February 6, 2012

Must Read, January 12, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on January 12, 2012

Arab League cracks down on Syria

Published on December 1, 2011

The Arab League stepped up sanctions against Syria over its violent suppression of a popular revolt.

Arab League calls for more Palestinian aid

Published on October 3, 2011

The Arab League called on its member states to offer more financial aid to the Palestinians in response to a report that the United States has frozen $200 million in assistance.

Egyptian presidential hopeful Moussa: Treaty with Israel is safe

Published on March 9, 2011

Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League and an Egyptian presidential candidate, said he would not break his country's peace treaty with Israel. According to several news outlets, Moussa said he would keep the treaty but would plan to renegotiate the deal supplying natural gas to Israel.

Arab League could back off ‘two-state’ solution

By Leslie Susser
Published on February 28, 2008

Irked by the slow rate of progress in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, major Arab players are threatening to withdraw their offer to normalize ties with Israel once a Palestinian state is established. Underlying the Arab reassessment is a deeper problem: Arab belief in the viability of "the two-state solution" is diminishing. And the worry in Jerusalem is that this growing lack of confidence could undermine the fragile negotiating process so carefully put in place at the regional peace conference in Annapolis, Md., last November.

New summit produces nothing new—as usual

By Mona Eltahawy
Published on December 6, 2007

Being in the region -- I was in Cairo at the beginning of November, and I'm writing this from Tel Aviv -- it's easy to see why Annapolis produced nothing new: Both Arab and Israeli politics have failed to produce anything new for years now.