Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian negotiator and current advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, presented a deceitful account of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy over the course of the Obama administration in a New York Times op-ed published on Wednesday. The tone of the op-ed, which calls on the United States to support the French initiative “for...

A top UNESCO panel approved a controversial resolution ignoring Jewish and Christian historical ties to the Temple Mount on Wednesday, prompting Israel to withdraw its envoy to the United Nations cultural organization. Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO criticized the vote on the Arab-sponsored resolution — the second of its kind to be passed...

Israel and Saudi Arabia should form a “collaborative alliance” to become the “twin pillars of regional stability” in the Middle East, a top Saudi lobbyist wrote in The Hill on Tuesday, in what is the latest sign of warming and increasingly-public ties between Arab countries and the Jewish state. Salman al-Ansari, the...

Israel has never been in a better diplomatic position because of the new bonds it has forged around the world, a former State Department official wrote in a Reuters op-ed Thursday. Josh Cohen, a former officer with the United States Agency for International Development, observed that Israel “is successfully developing...

An editorial in a major Saudi Arabian newspaper called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent invitation to address the Knesset, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. The editors of the English-language Saudi Gazette said that Netanyahu’s overture, made at the United Nations last week, recalled the invitation then-Israeli Prime...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with more than 15 African heads of state and representatives at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. Netanyahu told the leaders that he thought Israel could be an “amazing” partner for their nations. He specifically pointed to Israeli technology, which he said could improve their...