Despite U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s best efforts to bring Israel and the Palestinians together at the negotiating table and Israel’s support for continued peace talks, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has once again broken his word to Israel and the United States. In addition to rejecting the basic...

As confusion surrounds the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, one of Israel’s leading analysts told reporters that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made “significant gestures and compromises” to persuade the Palestinians to continue the negotiations. Udi Segal, best known as Israel Channel 2’s chief diplomatic correspondent, told a conference call for reporters and policymakers...

The Associated Press reported late Tuesday on what the outlet described as a “surprise move” by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to go to a range of United Nations bodies requesting membership for the “State of Palestine.” The AP noted that the declaration came “despite a promise to suspend...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returned to Israel late Monday as reports emerged that Jerusalem had presented Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas with a draft proposal designed to extend U.S.-brokered negotiations beyond their originally scheduled April 29 deadline. “Our negotiating team has been working with both parties on the ground to help...

The Palestinian Hamas faction is reportedly making something of a comeback in territories long dominated by its rival Fatah – staging rallies in the West Bank and in the Jerusalem campus of the Palestinian Al-Quds University – after a series of bad geopolitical gambles had left the terror group economically and...

On the day Israel offered yet more concessions for peace, the Palestine Liberation Organization further entrenched its position insisting any future Palestinian state be built on all the land captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. It stressed the Palestinian people “hanging on to their legitimate national rights, first...