AN ISRAELI VIEW One-state solution, Israel-style by Amnon Lord Two strategies regarding the Palestinian issue have evolved in Israel in recent years. The first conditions Israel's future on establishing peace with the Palestinians, or, if this proves impossible, unilaterally creating a situation of clear-cut partition leading to a two-state solution. The ...

AN ISRAELI VIEW Panic by Yossi Alpher The idea of a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seemingly never ceases to surprise and even entertain. It used to be official PLO policy, before the PNC adopted the two-state solution over 20 years ago. In recent years, with the two-state solution going nowhere, there ...

The NYT has a piece on Israel’s gas finds today: “The tensions with Lebanon — Israel’s neighbor to the north with which it remains technically at war — stem from Lebanon’s hope that some of the gas falls in its waters as well the patina of mistrust that hovers over the relationship. “Worried by Israel’s plans, ...

Pressure is mounting on the Palestinian side to agree to direct negotiations with Israel. There seems to be unanimous agreement that this is the optimal path to political progress that could lead to an Israeli-Palestinian agreement. Here we are in dire need of a reality check. The premise of the political ...

Later this week, the Arab League will decide whether to recommend that the PLO move from proximity to direct talks in its negotiations with the Netanyahu government. The American-led Quartet and the moderate Arab states are reportedly pressuring President Mahmoud Abbas to request precisely such a recommendation. This, then, is ...

In romantic terms, the July 6 meeting in the White House between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was a combination of "it's not you, it's me" and "let's hug it out." Both phrases are understated versions of the more lurid and moist descriptions of the encounter in ...

The Obama-Netanyahu meeting in Washington last week was an elegant exercise in short-term realpolitik. Very short-term. US President Barack Obama needs urgently to project an image of tranquility, friendship and cooperation in his relationship with Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu. This helps his administration ensure the support of a variety of pro-Israel ...

Bowing to misguided international pressure, particularly from the West, the Israeli government lifted nearly three years of restrictions on civilian goods allowed into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The restrictions had been imposed in reaction to the repeated launching of missiles into Israel's population centers. This decision hardly makes any strategic ...

The Israeli government decision to end its three-year blockade of civilian goods entering the Gaza Strip is a welcome move. Sadly, it came about a year too late, and its timing and circumstances benefited the wrong parties. That's because the Netanyahu government (in all fairness, like many of its predecessors) ...

It is perhaps somberly appropriate to address this issue one week after a state investigation committee made its final report on the failed resettlement of the Jewish expellees from the Gaza Strip. Five years from the announcement by Ariel Sharon's agitprop that there was a solution for every settler, most ...

Mahmoud Zahar, the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, called the talks a cover for Israel "Judaizing Jerusalem and stealing the land. ...

I doubt the “direct” Israel-Palestinian “peace” talks will actually be direct. They'll simply be another Israeli attempt to deny Palestinians' human rights ...

Source close to Palestinian Authority president says from PA's perspective, what matters is not Israel's declarations but the moratorium's implementation on ...

Israel and Georgia maintained their unbeaten starts to Euro 2012 qualifying Group F with a goalless draw in Tbilisi. Luis Fernandez's Israel side started ...

He said Castro, who himself has been a fierce critic of Israel, "repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism," chiding Ahmadinejad for denying ...

Putin also said Russia has “launched a few satellites in Israel's interests” and is “examining the possibility of equipping Israeli airplanes with our ...

BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE: SUNPHARMA, BSE: 524715) today announced that the Supreme Court of Israel has unanimously dismissed the appeal by Taro ...

Israel has been one of the major violators of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but this issue has not been taken seriously in the new report of ...

5 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out an attack by Israel against his country over its nuclear activities, saying that the Jewish ...

"Obama often doesn't get the credit he deserves in Israel," Oren said in a pre-Rosh Hashanah interview with the US Jewish media. "I think it's important at ...