Qatar: Arab Spring makes Israeli-Palestinian peace more pressing

Published on May 20, 2013

Qatar's emir, who has thrown his state's riches behind Arab uprisings, said on Monday that the emergence of 'people power' had put Arabs in direct confrontation with Israel and made a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more pressing.

Alan Dershowitz sends ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ episode to Netanyahu

Published on May 20, 2013

Comedian Larry David has been called a lot of things over the course of his long and successful career, but we’re pretty sure “peace maker” has never been one of them. Until now. Well, almost sort of, anyway.

State 194: A Documentary About Palestine

By Abe Fried-Tanzer
Published on May 17, 2013

Israel to authorize four West Bank settler outposts

Published on May 16, 2013

Israel plans to declare legal four unauthorized West Bank settler outposts, a court document showed on Thursday, days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns to the region to try to restart peace talks.

Palestinians mark Nakba with West Bank protests

Published on May 16, 2013

Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, which they call the “catastrophe,” with marches and protests.

Congressmen call on Abbas to fire official who glorified terrorist

Published on May 16, 2013

A bipartisan group of congressmen condemned comments made by a Palestinian Fatah official in support of the murderer of an Israeli father of five.

Palestinian group says it fired rockets on Mount Hermon

Published on May 16, 2013

A previously unknown Palestinian group took responsibility for two rockets that hit Mount Hermon, a popular Israeli tourist site in the Golan Heights.

International court to look into Israel’s 2010 Gaza flotilla raid

Published on May 16, 2013

The International Criminal Court prosecutor said she would open a preliminary examination into the 2010 Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which left nine Turkish activists dead.

Stephen Hawking rejects the Zionism of Einstein

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Published on May 14, 2013

Hawking and Mohammed

By David Suissa
Published on May 13, 2013

There was so much Jewish outrage last week in the wake of Professor Steven Hawking’s decision to join the academic boycott against Israel, it’s hard to know where to start.

Calls to destroy Israel heard at Muslim brotherhood’s Cairo rally

Published on May 10, 2013

Calls for Israel’s destruction were heard in Cairo at the first anti-Israel rally organized by the Muslim Brotherhood since the movement’s candidate was elected president.

Poll: Israelis much more confident in Obama than Palestinians

Published on May 9, 2013

Israelis by a 4-to-1 margin are more confident than Palestinians in how President Obama handles his foreign policy, a poll found.

May 9, 2013

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on May 9, 2013

Turkey’s prime minister set to visit Gaza

Published on May 8, 2013

Political observers in Turkey expect Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to reaffirm his support for Palestinians with a visit this month to Gaza, marking the third anniversary of a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish aid flotilla bound for the disputed territory

P.A. health minister makes landmark visit to Hadassah Hospital

Published on May 7, 2013

A Palestinian Authority minister of health visited Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem reportedly for the first time.

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?

Israeli official protests Google’s use of ‘Palestine’

Published on May 6, 2013

A senior Israeli official called on Google to reconsider its decision to change the wording on its services and products from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine."

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.

China offers to broker Abbas-Netanyahu meeting

Published on May 3, 2013

China offered to broker a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Google edition adopts ‘Palestine’

Published on May 3, 2013

Google has changed the title on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine."

Hamas rejects Arab League’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan

Published on May 3, 2013

Islamist Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip on Friday rejected a revised Middle East peace initiative put forward by the Arab League, saying outsiders could not decide the fate of the Palestinians.

Shots fired at hikers in West Bank

Published on May 2, 2013

Shots were fired at the car of several Israeli hikers in the West Bank.

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.

Murder of Jewish settler sparks West Bank clashes

Published on May 1, 2013

Israeli settlers and Palestinians clashed in the West Bank more than a day after the murder of a Jewish man by a Palestinian attacker.

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."

Palestinian kills Israeli at West Bank bus stop

Published on April 30, 2013

A Palestinian stabbed to death an Israeli man at a bus stop in the West Bank.

Israeli airstrike kills senior Palestinian terrorist in Gaza

Published on April 30, 2013

An Israeli airstrike killed a senior Palestinian terrorist in northern Gaza.

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.

Pope accepts Peres’ invitation to Israel

Published on April 30, 2013

Israeli President Shimon Peres invited Pope Francis on Tuesday to visit Israel, at his first meeting with the new pontiff who has appealed for peace in the Middle East.

From CicLAvia to Cedars Sinai

By Rob Eshman
Published on April 24, 2013

To the woman who confronted me last Sunday at the Celebrate Israel Festival, ranting that airplane vapor trails are actually toxic secret government gasses: You complain that journalists don’t take you seriously. They might, if you didn’t walk around wearing large posters of airplane vapor trails.

BDS campaign spreads with little effect

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 24, 2013

The multinational boycott campaign targeting Israel, aimed at stopping the country’s perceived injustices against Palestinians, has a venerable history, but the movement showed a new spurt of activism this month.

Berkeley students vote to divest from Israel latest in a UC string

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 18, 2013

UC Berkeley student senators approved a bill on Thursday calling for the University of California system to divest of stock in American companies that provide technological and weapon support used by the Israeli military in the Palestinian territories.

Jahalin Bedouin fear new Israeli transfer plan

Published on April 18, 2013

Id Khamis Jahalin sits in his sparsely furnished, illegally-built shack, and worries about his future. A father of seven, he was born in this community of tents and shacks about ten miles east of Jerusalem.

Cliffhanger divestment vote at UC Santa Barbara

Published on April 18, 2013

A 13-hour marathon meeting at the UC Santa Barbara student senate lasted through the night of April 10-11, culminating in a cliffhanger vote to deny an anti-Israel divestment resolution.

Five charged with planning attacks on Jews at Temple Mount

Published on April 18, 2013

Five residents of eastern Jerusalem were charged with planning a shooting attack on the Temple Mount.

Report: Western pressure halted Fayyad resignation

Published on April 12, 2013

The United States and Europe are pushing to tamp down an internal Palestinian power struggle, Palestinian sources say.

P.A. Prime Minister Fayyad offers resignation, sources say

Published on April 10, 2013

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad offered his resignation to P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday following a rift between the two men over government policy, two sources told Reuters.

April 10, 2013

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 10, 2013

Kerry, Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem to discuss restarting peace talks

Published on April 9, 2013

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem to discuss restarting negotiations with the Palestinians.

Kerry tells Peres he sees ‘road ahead’ on peace

Published on April 8, 2013

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Israel said he sees "a road ahead" on the two-state solution for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Suckers at the Casbah

By David Suissa
Published on April 8, 2013

Apparently, there are smart people out there who still believe it’s up to Israel to revive the dead Middle East peace process.

Kerry, Abbas discuss reviving peace talks but offer no details

Published on April 8, 2013

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday discussed reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks but neither side offered details on how, when and whether that might happen.

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters pulls out of New York Y event

Published on April 4, 2013

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, who supports a boycott of Israel, pulled out of a speaking engagement at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

Kerry to visit Jerusalem, Ramallah; not bringing new peace plan

Published on April 3, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah next week but does not intend to offer an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, the State Department said on Wednesday.

Why Israel Isn’t More Thrilled About the Death of the ‘Settlement Freeze’

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 3, 2013

Israel launches air strike on Gaza; First since truce

Published on April 2, 2013

Israel launched an air strike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since an eight-day war in November, Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the territory, and Israel's military said.

P.A.’s Fayyad hospitalized

Published on April 2, 2013

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was hospitalized with abdominal pain.

Palestinian prisoners riot in Israeli jails after inmate’s death

Published on April 2, 2013

Palestinian prisoners rioted in at least four Israeli prisons after the death of an inmate from cancer.

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas re-elects Meshaal as its leader

Published on April 2, 2013

Hamas re-elected Khaled Meshaal on Tuesday as the Palestinian Islamist group's leader after a marathon vote, a Hamas official said.

Israeli boy, soldiers injured during Land Day protests

Published on April 1, 2013

An Israeli boy and several Israeli soldiers were injured during Israeli-Arab and Palestinian protests marking Land Day.

Palestinian journalist gets jail term for Abbas insult

Published on March 28, 2013

A Palestinian Authority court sentenced a local journalist to a year in jail on Thursday over a picture posted on Facebook that was deemed insulting to Mahmoud Abbas.

This week in power: Obama recap, Flotilla apology, Twitter suit, Passover message

By Danny Groner
Published on March 28, 2013

Obama’s Middle East visit: 50 shades of gray

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on March 27, 2013

On March 21, four days before Pesach, Sarah Chazizza was at home in Sderot, doing what people do before Pesach. She was cleaning. It was still early in the morning, but the weather was getting warmer and the windows were wide open to let the dusted furniture breath.

Billboards calling for end to U.S. aid to Israel posted in N.Y., Conn.

Published on March 27, 2013

Billboards calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel were erected this week at 25 train stations in suburban New York and Connecticut.

West Bank Hebrew language study is growing

Published on March 27, 2013

Listening to Hebrew songs is officially frowned upon by many West Bank residents, but interest in learning the language of the “other society that is very close but still far away” is clearly picking up among Palestinians wishing to understand Israelis.

After Mideast trip, Obama gains political capital. Will he spend it?

Published on March 25, 2013

For a trip that U.S. officials had cautioned was not about getting “deliverables,” President Obama’s apparent success during his Middle East trip at getting Israel and Turkey to reconcile has raised some hopes for a breakthrough on another front: Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Why peace with Abbas and Hamas is worse than occupation

By Mark Paredes
Published on March 24, 2013

A reaction to Obama’s speech in Jerusalem

Published on March 22, 2013

This morning, as I listened to President Obama’s speech to students in Jerusalem, I was filled with frustration and mortification. I was watching the speech at the gym and read the words as they crossed the TV screen.

A politically correct seder

By David Mamet
Published on March 22, 2013

David Mamet's original cartoon.

A Recap of Obama’s Visit: Quick Headlines, Measured Perspective, Exclusive Numbers

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on March 22, 2013