U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said that he regrets the timing of critical remarks he made about Israel last week, Ha’aretz reported Monday. In an interview with Army Radio, Shapiro acknowledged that “the timing [of his comments] wasn’t ideal,” though he noted that they “began with a condemnation of the...

The Swiss government is facing increased criticism over an alleged agreement it secretly made with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1970 to offer the group diplomatic support in exchange for an end to terrorist attacks on its territory, the BBC reported on Friday. The deal, detailed in an upcoming book...

The growing rapprochement between Israel and Sunni Arab states can “actually help us resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria at the World Economic Forum on Thursday. I see the world as it is, not as I’d like it to be...

A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has said that a two-state solution with a Palestinian state in the West Bank with Jerusalem as its capital would just be a “phase” ultimately resulting in a single Palestinian state. “Palestine stretches from the river to the sea,” Tawfiq...

A senior official from Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, declared in a TV interview Tuesday that “Hitler was not ‎morally corrupt, he was daring.” Tawfiq Tirawi, a top member of the Fatah Central Committee and former head of Palestinian intelligence, said in remarks broadcast on the Palestinian TV...

Isaac Herzog, the leader of the opposition in the Knesset and the head of the center-left Zionist Union, admitted in an interview Wednesday that an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is unrealistic in the near term. “I don’t see a possibility at the moment of implementing the two-state solution,” he told Army Radio. “I want to...