Reports emerged late yesterday that Jibril Rajoub – a senior Palestinian official and for decades a top figure in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process – had earlier this month accused the United States of permitting Israel to assassinate former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat: In an interview given to official PA television earlier this month, Fatah...

It’s been almost a month since European Union foreign policy head Catherine Ashton called on the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. The two groups have been openly at odds since at least 2007, when Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from Fatah in a bloody five day battle,...

Reuters late Wednesday conveyed reports that the Palestinian delegation charged with negotiating opposite Israel had resigned and cited for its resignation Israeli construction within communities beyond the Jewish state’s 1948 armistice lines. The move comes despite the cancellation of previously announced massive building plans by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....

A 19-year-old Israeli soldier was stabbed to death this morning on an Israeli bus by a 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist, sustaining several wounds to his neck and chest and eventually succumbing to his injuries after being admitted to to a hospital. Israel Defense Forces soldier Eden Atias, 19, from Nazareth Illit,...

The Associated Press reported over the weekend that widespread power outages throughout the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip were the result of “political infighting” between rival Palestinian groups, which had in turn led to a fuel shortage, which had in turn negatively impacted the territory’s only power plant. A Hamas spokesman echoed...

Observers and scientists spent a second day mocking media coverage – including headlines and copy printed in some of the world’s top outlets – suggesting that there is even a possibility that Swiss scientists had detected evidence of polonium-210 poisoning by studying the remains of former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. This week...