JERUSALEM -- Major Palestinian parties Fatah and Hamas agreed to form a unified government for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The agreement, signed Monday in Qatar, stipulates that the government will be headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...
JERUSALEM -- Gaza Palestinians threw slippers or shoes and rocks at a car carrying United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon as he crossed from Israel into the Gaza Strip. Thursday's protesters, relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, tried to block...
Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, will visit Iran. Haniyeh is going to Tehran at the invitation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad amid reports that relations between Hamas and Iran have soured because...
WASHINGTON—Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich put the blame for the impasse in Middle East peace talks squarely on the Palestinians. The candidates were responding a a question at the latest GOP debate Thursday night, in Jacksonville, Fla., from an audience...
JERUSALEM—Israel's Air Force attacked terrorist sites in the Gaza Strip. The targets hit after midnight on Monday night included a weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza, two terror tunnels in northern Gaza, and a third terror tunnel in southern...
Some 550 Palestinians were released from Israeli jails in the second stage of the prisoner swap for captured soldier Gilad Shalit.The prisoners, including six women, were handed over by Israel on Sunday night. They left from the Ayalon Prison near Tel...
By Joshua Mitnick, N.Y. Jewish Week, Tel Aviv
• Published December 7, 2011
Israelis are watching elections in Egypt with the same ambivalence they have viewed the Arab Spring: historic images of Egyptians casting ballots for the first time were accompanied by troubling commentary by officials and analysts that the election is...
By Jeffrey F. Barken, JointMedia News Service
• Published November 23, 2011
Kibbutz Dorot lies roughly 10 miles from the Gaza border, 4.5 miles from the college town of Sderot and 18 miles from the Israeli port city of Ashkelon. Strangely, the kibbutz appears to be protected from the sporadic volleys of rockets launched by terrorist...
To paraphrase a lyric of a pop song of a few years back, we "sure could use some good news" to balance so much bad and even terrible news coming out of the Middle East in recent days. The "Arab Spring" seems to be morphing into an "Israeli Winter" with...
By Edgar M. Bronfman and Adam R. Bronfman
• Published August 10, 2011
NEW YORK - For the Arab Spring, Israel represents the hope that in the Middle East, a nation can be both a national homeland and a free society. Israel is a modern, thriving democracy amid a region dominated by despotic regimes that brutally oppress their...
By Uriel Heilman and Marcy Oster, JTA
• Published May 15, 2011
JERUSALEM — In the wake of disturbances on Israel's borders that have resulted in as many as 14 deaths, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a national address that he has ordered his military to stop the infiltration and defend the country's sovereignty. ...
The announcement of a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement is a by-product of the Arab Spring, and the Palestinian chess game to position the public of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip for Palestinian statehood. The questions that the deal raises are...
