But the Israeli government retains control over all of Gaza's border crossings, except for the transit point to Egypt; the strip's airspace and coastal waters; and the population registry used to assign Palestinian identity cards. The Unit…

Three years ago the Israel-Palestine Centre for Research and Information (IPCRI), a think-tank in Jerusalem, conducted studies of some school textbooks on both sides. It found gradual improvements over previous years, but still a lot of pr…

JERUSALEM: A government-appointed committee examining Israel's failures during last summer's war in Lebanon is to publish an interim report in the second half of April apportioning personal responsibility to top officials, heightening unce…

The claims were aired last week in an Israeli documentary, described by its director as a "self-examination" of Israel's use of force during the war."In Egypt, the opposition is taking the story and distorting it into an issue to disrupt t…

By Tim Butcher, Middle East Correspondent Last Updated: 2:21am GMT 05/03/2007 Saudi officials have been working hard to end the political stand off in Lebanon and last month they brokered a historic agreement in Mecca between the Palestini…

JERUSALEM, Feb. 25 ― The Israeli Army put the large West Bank city of Nablus under curfew on Sunday in one of the biggest military operations there in two years.The Israeli forces discovered an explosives laboratory in Nablus, the second o…

Three Arab states in the Persian Gulf would be willing to allow the Israel Air force to enter their airspace in order to reach Iran in case of an attack on its nuclear facilities, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa reported on Sunday.Accordin…

Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli wa…

Six months after a UN-brokered ceasefire ended Israel's war with Hizbullah, scepticism about the role of 10,000 UN troops is growing among the population of south Lebanon.The scepticism comes amid signs that the militant Shia group is retr…

A UN human rights investigator has likened Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories to apartheid South Africa and says there should be "serious consideration" over bringing the occupation to the international court of justice.The…

ATLANTA, Feb. 22 -- Former president Jimmy Carter suggested Thursday that critics of his book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should visit the occupied territories to see for themselves whether his account is on target.Carter, 82, spok…

Russia and the US were at odds yesterday over relations with a planned Palestinian national unity government, revealing divisions that are likely to further hamper efforts to reinvigorate international backing for a Middle East peace initi…

But European officials appeared more willing to hold out the possibility of finding members of a new unity government with whom to work. "There are ways that we can be flexible," one European official said.The Russian foreign minister, Ser…

Arkadi Gaydamak, a Russian-born billionaire businessman and sports entrepreneur, has decided to enter Israeli politics as a rightwing kingmaker at a time when voters’ respect for their present leaders has plumbed record lows.The controvers…

AMMAN: Israel said Tuesday it would stop dealing with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, if he went ahead with plans to join Hamas in a new government, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Arab allies sought a way to break the…

On a wild and beautiful 40-mile-long plateau in the north of Israel, entrepreneurs are defying new pressure to sign up to peace with Syria by turning the Golan Heights into the country's trendiest destination.The drive to transform the Gol…

Emphasis apart, it is hard to say what is new in his account. The scheme discussed at the Tel Aviv meeting, Plan Dalet, has been known about for years. It has long been clear that the Palestinians were not, as used to be claimed, encourage…

Feb. 15, 2007 | Hezbollah operatives plant explosives along the disputed border area between Lebanon and Israel. The Israeli military moves in and destroys them. Israeli and Lebanese forces engage in sporadic gun battles.It may sound like …

By Scott Wilson Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, February 11, 2007; A01 The Israeli government is funding the first construction of a Jewish settlement in the Old City's Muslim Quarter since taking control of it nearly four decades …

JERUSALEM, Feb. 9 ― Israeli troops charged onto the grounds of Jerusalem’s most contentious religious site on Friday and fired tear gas and stun grenades at stone-throwing Palestinians who were protesting Israeli excavation work taking pla…

EVEN if Iran got the bomb, it would know that Israel had one too, and that knowledge would deter both countries from using their weapons, just as the doctrine of “Mutual Assured Destruction” kept America and the Soviet Union at peace durin…

JERUSALEM: A group of prominent Arab Israelis has called on Israel to stop defining itself as a Jewish state and become a "consensual democracy for both Arabs and Jews," prompting consternation and debate across the country.Their contentio…

Israeli leaders fear that an Iranian bomb would undermine their nation's security even if Tehran never detonated it. That Israel has its own nuclear arsenal would not counteract the psychological and strategic blow, they believe.Israel beg…

リアリスト寄りの見方。The study, authored by Ephraim Kam and a team of researchers at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. According to the study, as Iran formulates its nuclear policy, it will have to decide…

Yedioth Aharonoth (p. M16) by Meron Rappaport -- [May 23, 2003] http://www.gush-shalom.org/thewall/index.html The maps that Sharon's people asked for were the maps that Prof. Sofer, a geographer at Haifa University and the prophet of "the …

By Yitzhak Laor A real discussion should begin with the fact that some of the immigrants are Ashkenazi and some aren't; some found a place for themselves in the Israeli economy, while others are wretchedly poor; some have been assimilated …