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Topic: Oslo Accords

April 27, 2013
4:58 am

A Bedouin camp located in the E1 area, between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, in December 2012. (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

EU criticizes Israel’s demolition of Palestinian structures

Since 2008, some 2,400 Palestinian homes and buildings were knocked down in Area C, displacing over 4,400 people, according to European body

By Michal Shmulovich

March 29, 2013
7:18 pm

Naftali Bennett (photo credit: Flash90)

Bennett promises to prevent capitulation to Palestinians

Following Obama visit, hardline minister sounds skeptical on diplomatic solution, says ‘only force can beat terror’

By Philip Podolsky

February 4, 2013
6:24 pm

Ultra-Orthodox Children in a Jerusalem classroom, August 2009 (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Israeli and Palestinian textbooks erase the other side, report finds

Flawed maps and references to the enemy rife, State Department-funded study finds, though Israeli state schoolbooks are a little more balanced

By Elhanan Miller

February 1, 2013
10:07 pm

“When you leave the Shin Bet, you become a bit of a leftist,” says Yaakov Peri, who ran the agency for nearly a decade. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Second Israeli Oscar nominee arrives in US theaters

Opening Friday, ‘The Gatekeepers’ takes a complex look at the men responsible for Israel’s security — and offers a clear contrast with its competition

By Nathan Burstein

January 29, 2013
11:37 am

Knesset member Yossi Beilin at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 21, 2007 (photo credit: Flash90)

Netanyahu would agree to interim Palestinian state, ex-minister claims

Responding to Yossi Beilin’s talk of provisional borders, Prime Minister’s Office says its aim remains a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes Israel’s Jewish character

By Raphael Ahren

January 14, 2013
5:08 pm

Major churches urge Obama to seek Mideast peace

Letter says president’s second term should focus on achieving a two-state solution

January 3, 2013
11:35 pm

Shas Party leaders Eli Yishai (left) and Aryeh Deri cheer during a Shas party conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas will support territorial concessions in future peace deal, asserts one of party’s leaders

Aryeh Deri claims his ultra-Orthodox party is ‘neither right-wing nor left-wing,’ downplays spat with former FM Liberman

By Asher Zeiger

January 2, 2013
12:25 pm

Likud candidate Moshe Feiglin at the third annual Conference on the Application of Israeli Sovereignty to Judea and Samaria, on Tuesday, January 1, 2013 (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Likud hardliner suggests paying Palestinian families to emigrate from West Bank

Remarks by Moshe Feiglin come a day after he was arrested for praying on the Temple Mount

By Stuart Winer and Gabe Fisher

December 31, 2012
8:39 pm

Eitan Haber next to a photograph of his former boss, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (photo credit: CC-BY-SA, Shalom Bartal, Wikimedia Commons)

Rabin formally opposed a Palestinian state more than a year after White House handshake, letter from 1994 shows

Asked what prime minister really intended, top aide Haber gives mixed response, says bitterly, ‘Perhaps you should ask the assassin’

By Raphael Ahren

December 18, 2012
1:44 pm

Clashes in Ramallah during the first intifada (photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)

The look in their eyes

Recalling the first intifada when, it was suddenly no longer so clear who the good guys were

By Sagi Melamed

December 13, 2012
10:25 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas condemns Hamas head’s statements; Likud doesn’t buy it

Hatnua chair Livni congratulates PA president for taking stand against calls for Israel’s destruction; she’s ‘burying her head in the sand,’ PM’s party says

By Aaron Kalman

December 9, 2012
6:16 pm

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks with members of the media in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2012. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas calls for economic agreement with Israel to be amended

The PA is ‘on the verge of collapse,’ says Palestinian president, declaring the need for a constitution

By Elhanan Miller

November 29, 2012
6:08 pm

Twenty conclusions from Pillar of Defense

Israel’s strategic position got a boost from Hamas’s impotence, the IDF’s response and the country’s unity under fire.

By David Bedein

November 29, 2012
1:15 pm

Naftali Bennett (left) and Yossi Beilin in a heated argument, Thursday (photo credit: screen capture/Channel 10/news.nana10.co.il)

Dove and hawk spar on television

Naftali Bennett demands apology for Oslo Accords; Yossi Beilin calls him a liar for claiming terror deaths were brought about by peace deal

By Aaron Kalman

November 27, 2012
9:41 pm

A draft of the PA's United Nation's statehood resolution, which would be rejected by Israel's foreign ministry.

Foreign Ministry instructs envoys to return letters that use the term ‘Palestine’

Delegations worldwide told to deal only with communiques with correct terminology

By Aaron Kalman

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