Among the classic, repeated Hamas slogans is the one in which the group’s fighters declare that that they “love death” more than their declared Israeli enemies “love life.” The Iran-backed terror organization has gone to enormous lengths to brainwash Palestinian children with that ideology. Reports began to emerge early this...

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni spoke to the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of Israel’s Knesset Tuesday, emphasizing that Israel is serious about U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts to restart the peace talks. “In my eyes it is not enough to hold talks for the sake of...

The New York Times reports on a new Israeli government investigation that the paper says “casts new doubts” on iconic media images, filmed in September 2000, that have been used by activists, diplomats, journalists, and terrorists to justify attacks against Israelis and Jews. The images come from a France 2...

“This is the best offer we’ve ever gotten from Israel and the best we’ll ever get.” That’s how Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas described the peace offer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made him in the fall of 2008. Olmert’s offer had indeed been far-reaching on all the final-status issues:...

Officials from the Western-backed Palestinian Fatah faction yesterday slammed what they called “activities of normalization” with Israel. Top Fatah figures blasted the organizers of a sports match designed to promote coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis. “Every now and then, some organizations who call themselves Palestinian come up with activities of normalization with...

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have agreed to reenter talks aimed at bringing Fatah-controlled portions of the West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and under the rule of a single government. Efforts to overcome divisions between the two groups have repeatedly faltered, but yesterday representatives from both pledged...