A week after an Al Qaeda-linked Somali terror organization urged its followers to conduct operations similar to the Hamas kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, a Hamas spokesman reaffirmed his organization’s embrace of the tactic that it pioneered. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – whose Fatah faction rivals Hamas – had...

Despite the risks and its own disappointment, Israel must explore all possibilities for exploring peace with the Palestinians, Tzipi Livni, Israel’s justice minister and envoy to the peace process, told an audience Tuesday in Jerusalem. Speaking at a forum hosted by The Israel Project, Livni emphasized that Western pressure was...

Secretary of State John Kerry is wrapping up a trip to the Middle East in which he unveiled an initiative, designed to jumpstart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, under which Palestinian areas would be given a $4 billion economic boost. The Palestinian reaction was less than enthusiastic. An economic advisor for...

In 2005 Hamas won municipal elections in the West Bank city of Qalqilya, triggering declarations from some observers to the effect that power would force the Iran-backed terror organization to govern pragmatically. When the organization won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, the same analysis was expanded to encompass hopes...

Revelations made regarding the details of a 2008 peace offer by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are calling into question the willingess of the PA – and of broader Palestinian society – to accept a peace deal with Israel. In details revealed on TheTower.org,...

“I am still waiting for a phone call from him,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tells TheTower.org in an exclusive interview. Revealing never before heard details of talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Olmert was referring to the proposal for a peace agreement that he presented to Abbas...