WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s announced trip to Israel, at the height of his campaign to wrest the presidency from Barack Obama, could be a twofer, drawing closer two critical constituencies: evangelicals and foreign policy hawks. A Romney campaign official...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican primaries are effectively over, and gone with them is the sharp-edged rhetoric and departures from past U.S. policy on the Middle East. Gone is Rick Santorum’s pledge to strike Iran and his suggestion that West Bank Palestinians...

The path to international recognition of Palestinian statehood by September - when the Palestinians plan to bring the matter before the U.N. General Assembly - seems clear.The question before Israel and its supporters who oppose such recognition is how...