The new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering a “tectonic” adjustment in its foreign policy by no longer voting for the Palestinians in the United Nations, The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper, reported Monday. In what could amount to a tectonic shift in the country’s foreign policy, the Modi...

In an interview in The New York Times published today, former Israeli chief negotiator Tzipi Livni detailed how Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas undermined the American-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Livni’s account, given to the Times‘s Roger Cohen, identified three specific episodes that led to the collapse of the talks. On March 17, in...

Foreign Policy on Thursday assessed growing tensions between Palestinian officials and Washington, citing a range of statements to the effect that relations between Ramallah and Washington may become strained should the Palestinians continue to press unilateral moves toward statehood at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The outlet, which said the...

Representatives Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) issued a letter Friday calling on the Obama administration to “send a clear message” that it will veto any United Nations Security Council resolution that “attempts to bypass direct negotiations between Israelis and the Palestinians.” The letter read in part: We write to...

Opposition to unilateral Palestinian moves toward statehood at the UN gained bipartisan support in Washington on Thursday, with Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) jointly authoring a letter to Foggy Bottom urging the State Department to veto Palestinian moves in the international body that would bypass direct negotiations...

The US affiliate of Israel’s Energiya, an international solar development firm headed by Yosef Abramowitz, recently won a $30 million, 17.68 megawatt solar deal in southeastern Georgia, the first utility scale solar project in the region. The enormous 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with Georgia Power Company – to be called...