An analysis of how the EU’s settlement guidelines will affect Israel and the settlements after the two sides reached an agreement on their disputed terms, as they have been reported thus far. The European Union…
PETITION BACKGROUND – There was unbelievable chaos in the Al Quds University in Abu Dis, Palestine on 17th November. Not for the first time, the Israeli army tried to invade the university. Today they used…
The UKTI has updated its “Doing business guide in Israel”. Until Friday 15 November 2013, the British government had been promoting investment in the Jordan valley and its illegal Israeli settlements, contradicting its policy position…
Kerry’s effort to re-launch the peace process was based on the illusion that Netanyahu is committed to a two-state solution; its failure means that it’s only a matter of time before the Palestinians fight back.…
When a journalist was invited to a meeting, asked a question, and the distinguished speakers invoked their right to remain silent. I never expected that Dr. Rajiv Shah, the administrator of United States Agency of…
Palestinian team had stepped down in protest over proposed Israeli construction in the West Bank Israel’s chief negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians on Thursday criticized the resignation of Palestinian negotiators that had been…
Israel’s “escalation of settlement-building” blamed for resignations, which President Abbas has yet to accept. The entire Palestinian negotiating team has resigned due to what they say is continued Israeli settlement building and frustrations over the…
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s top national security aide on Thursday blamed Israeli settlement expansion announcements for some of the latest tensions between Israel and the Palestinians as U.S.-brokered peace talks between…
Swiss scientists find levels of polonium 18 times higher than normal in first forensic tests on former Palestinian leader’s body. The first forensic tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat‘s corpse have shown unexpectedly high…
Decision to build border fence coincides with approval of construction of almost 2,000 settler homes in occupied areas. Israeli government has decided to build a security fence on the the border with Jordan, a report…
Last week, my colleagues in the Israeli Peace Now movement issued two blockbuster reports. These weren’t the regular “more construction was announced” fare. These reports have huge implications, both negative and positive, for peace and…
As the Israelis and Palestinians are presently negotiating in an effort to end a nearly seven decades-old conflict, Prime Minister Netanyahu has made recognition of the Jewish right to a homeland in Israel “the most…
The degree of importance and urgency to be attributed to the Palestine problem, specifically what to do about the West Bank and Gaza which Israel occupied in 1967, has itself become a problem. Arabs…
A viable peace process does not require either party to embrace or even recognize the legitimacy of the other’s narrative. It requires that both have an informed and non-reductionist understanding of what this narrative consists…
Baroness Jenny Tonge, was one of four speakers at the Oxford Union on 31 January, who opposed the motion: “This house believes that Israel is a force for good in the Middle East” Those speaking…