Cuban official: Cuba is ready to negotiate status of Alan Gross

Published on May 15, 2012

Authorities in Cuba are ready to negotiate the status of jailed American Alan Gross, a senior Cuban official said.

Getting To Marriage

By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on January 19, 2011

Noam Shalit: Contacts over kidnapped son are continuing

Published on April 19, 2010

Noam Shalit, the father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, confirmed to Haaretz yesterday that contacts to secure his son's release are continuing and that the German negotiator and Israeli negotiator Hagai Hadas are still "working."

Israeli study: As negotiators, man smart, woman smarter

Published on August 13, 2008

Forget the men when it comes to business negotiations. Women may be more skilled than their masculine counterparts, according to a new study by an Israeli researcher.

Israel is still fighting for independence

By Rep. Elton Gallegly
Published on April 3, 2008

Sixty years is long enough for a nation to fight to retain its independence. Our Arab partners, including Egypt and Jordon, need to join with the United States to pressure Hamas and other terrorist groups to cease and desist.

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.

We have the right to an indivisible Jerusalem

By Rabbi Dov Fischer
Published on November 1, 2007

Rabbi Dov Fischer responds to Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky's invitation to have a conversation about Jerusalem.

An Orthodox rabbi’s plea: consider a divided Jerusalem

By Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
Published on October 25, 2007

It's not that I would want to see Jerusalem divided. It's rather that the time has come for honesty. Their call to handcuff the government of Israel in this way, their call to deprive it of this negotiating option, reveals that these organizations are not being honest about the situation that we are in, and how it came about. And I cannot support them in this.

Israel’s Arab neighbors may hold key to summit’s success

By Leslie Susser
Published on October 18, 2007

As the Annapolis peace parley rapidly approaches, some of the Arab and Muslim players expected to play a key role in creating conditions for a favorable outcome are proving to be more of an obstacle than an asset.

Jerusalem status takes center stage in advance of talks

By Leslie Susser
Published on October 11, 2007

With just more than a month to go before the Israeli-Palestinian peace conference is scheduled to take place, Jerusalem is shaping up to become the key issue.

Should Israel leave Hamas out of negotiations?

By Leslie Susser
Published on October 4, 2007

In the run-up to the regional peace parley in November, Israeli decision makers are facing an increasingly acute dilemma: How to deal with the Hamas terrorists who control Gaza.

Mideast Conflict Displays Parallels to N. Ireland

By Niall Stanage
Published on April 5, 2007

The Middle East peace process, frozen to the point of lifelessness, may be starting to thaw.

Holy Doubt

By Rabbi Debra Orenstein
Published on December 7, 2006

This week's Torah portion contains a story that most of us skipped in Hebrew school -- the story of Dina.

Will He or Won’t He?

By Matthew E. Berger
Published on March 27, 2003

As the Palestinians move forward with the confirmation of a new prime minister, many are looking to the White House to see when President Bush will unveil the "road map" toward Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Chances for Peace

By Michelle K. Wolf
Published on April 13, 2000

Signing a framework for a peace agreement with the Palestinians by the end of May will help Israel to reshape the strategic equation in the Middle East, according to Israel's deputy defense minister, Ephraim Sneh, who briefed 250 delegates and guests at the recent Labor Zionist Alliance biennial convention.

The Settlers of Golan

By Avi Machlis
Published on December 16, 1999

Emotions ranging from hope to uncertainty to anger fill the 16,000 Golan Heights residents as their fate is again the topic of Israeli-Syrian peace talks.
Negotiations resumed Wednesday in Washington, and residents here know that the price for peace with Syria is likely to be the return of all or most of the Golan, the strategic plateau Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Agreement Reached for Slave Laborers

By Michael Shapiro
Published on December 16, 1999

Jews who worked as slave laborers during the Nazi era are one step closer to receiving some measure of compensation for their ordeal.
After months of torturous negotiations, an agreement has been reached to establish a $5.2 billion fund for these victims of the Holocaust, according to several lawyers and Jewish officials involved in the talks.

Unlikely Bedfellows

By David Landau
Published on June 24, 1999

As the deadline draws ever closer for Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak to present his government for Knesset approval, his coalition negotiations are taking some surprising turns.

Labor’s Leaders Lobby for U.S. Support, Funds

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 24, 1998

Two leaders of Israel's opposition Labor Party were in Los Angeles last week on separate visits and voiced sharp criticism of the current government's peace policy, and support for a strong role by the United States in the stalled negotiations.