Israelis overwhelming favor pursuing a regional peace deal, and would even support an Israeli prime minister who formed a new political party aimed at securing such an accord, according to a new poll conducted by the Israeli Peace Initiative Group. According to the survey, a majority of the respondents – some 72...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly “exploded with rage” at Secretary of State John Kerry over what he termed “insane” proposals from Washington designed to facilitate a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, according to descriptions of a meeting between the two published in the leading Palestinian...

A report published last week by the Israel-based Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) moved to unpack what Senior Research Fellow Kobi Michael described as the “4-level game” that will determine whether the current round of U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks successfully yield a viable Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel. Michael emphasized...

The Oxfam International aid group has been partnering with at least two subsidiaries of an internationally designated terrorist organization and has been providing them with financial assistance and “additional forms of material support,” according to a letter from The Israel Law Center sent to Oxfam and conveyed Thursday by the Washington Free...

Unity talks between the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions have reportedly stalled amid Fatah demands – and Hamas refusals – that new elections be held to provide Palestinian lawmakers with a mandate to rule over some of the areas that they claim for a future Palestinian state. Amin Maqboul, the secretary-general of...

Palestinian figures have again publicly rejected Israel’s calls to recognize the country as a homeland for the Jewish people in the context of a comprehensive peace deal, with top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat squashing rumors that Ramallah had shifted from its oft-repeated rejection of the condition. “I told minister Livni in Munich recently that we won’t...