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.

Lawrence Davidson explains why the US-sponsored direct talks between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, due to start on 2 September, are most unlikely to result in anything that is

As history has it peace talks initiated by the US has continued to be regarded as a means to an end to the world's superpower.

Hamas said Sunday that Israel naming war criminal Yoav Galant as the new military chief of staff is new evidence on Israel's "terrorist and bloody nature".

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,

Neve Gordon argues that the demand of a loyalty oath in Israel has ominous similarities to the demands made by Mussolini's Italy, and that the Israeli state must “be loyal

Jonathan Cook reports that secrets of serious war crimes, such as the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian Golan Heights following the 1967 war, lay behind the Israeli government’s decision to

Israeli media sources have confirmed that the Israeli government has informed the US envoy for the peace process in the region, George Mitchell, of its rejection of the Palestinian preconditions

Israeli military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi during the publicized Turkel investigation into the deadly attack on the Freedom Flotilla said he is fully responsible for all operations carried out

Israel threatened Tuesday not to cooperate with the UN committee of experts assigned to investigate into the deadly attack by Israel naval commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that ended