Can the Obama administration forge a peace agreement, and what steps should it be taking in Mideast policy?

"Where is the Palestinian Mandela?" pundits occasionally ask. But after these latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail — as they inevitably will — the more pressing question may be:

You have asked me to speak to current American policies in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the prospects for peace in the Holy Land.

The German Yungas Welt newspaper described de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas as “Washington's puppet”, adding that he “has expired”, arguing that direct talks between the Oslo authority and Israel

Even as the direct negotiations between the PLO and Israeli government are about to resume, thought needs to be given to the possibility that talks will fail and that an

I never thought a day could come when I would agree with anything stated by Moshe Arens (three times an Israeli minister of defense, a one-time foreign minister, a former

In a comment about the renewed Arab-Israeli peace talks in Washington , Amr Mousa, and Secretary General of the Arab League alleged that many people were not optimistic about the

IT’S been 10 long years since the Palestinians and Israelis last came close to establishing a permanent peace, in January 2001 at Taba in Egypt.

Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to enter direct negotiations (yet again) in Washington on September 2. The Obama administration is sure to hail this as a significant breakthrough. Jerusalem, refugees,

Dr. Mohamed Morsy, the Muslim Brotherhood's media spokesman and Executive Bureau member, stressed that the group strongly rejects Shimon Peres' visit to Cairo , and its possible outcomes describing him