February 8, 2013
4:25 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Erato Kozakou Marcoullis, the foreign minister of Cyprus, during his visit to the island country in February (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90/GPO)

Cyprus upgrades Palestinian mission to embassy

Foreign minister says move in line with Nicosia’s recognition of Palestinian statehood in 1988

By Ron Friedman and AP

February 6, 2013
5:15 pm

Mahmoud Abbas and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Cairo on February 6 (photo credit: IRNA screenshot)

Abbas meets Ahmadinejad, thanks Iran for support

PA president and Iranian leader meet in Cairo following Islamic summit, discuss statehood

By Adiv Sterman

January 23, 2013
9:21 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Likud MK Carmel Shama HaCohen at the Knesset (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

For Obama, centrist shift in election means more two-state advocates

US had figured only Netanyahu and one other MK would back Palestinian state in what it thought would be a rightist coalition

By Ron Kampeas

January 23, 2013
8:17 pm

Israel's UN Ambassador Ron Prosor, left (photo credit: Courtesy/File)

Israel’s UN envoy: If Mali is on France’s doorstep, Gaza is in our living room

At Security Council debate, US ambassador slams Netanyahu’s E1 building plans, stresses Palestine is not a state

By Raphael Ahren

January 18, 2013
9:23 am

Asma Aghbaria-Zahalka, the head of the Daam party, poses for a photograph in Tel Aviv on Thursday. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Jewish-Arab party makes long-shot election bid

Daam party’s nonconformist platform calls for coexistence, ruffles feathers of established Arab lists

By Diaa Hadid

January 11, 2013
12:01 pm

Tzipi Livni, the leader of the Hatnua party (photo credit: Flash90)

Netanyahu bringing about ‘the demise of the Jewish state,’ Livni charges

Hatnua party leader says Israeli voters must choose Palestinian independence over a single state where Jews are in the minority

By Elie Leshem

January 9, 2013
6:12 pm

Minister for Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel, US to establish joint forum to monitor Iran economy

Finance Minister Steinitz calls for more sanctions to curb Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons program

January 8, 2013
2:12 am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves to the crowd during celebrations for their successful bid to win UN statehood recognition on Dec. 2, 2012. (photo credit: Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP)

What’s in a name? For ‘State of Palestine,’ not much

‘At the end of the day, the Palestinian Authority won’t cause trouble for its people,’ Abbas spokesman says

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh

January 6, 2013
12:14 pm

Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman October 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch / FLASH90)

Avigdor Liberman: Next government will continue to seek two-state solution

Yisrael Beytenu head says Israel does not have ‘imperialistic ambitions’; comments rejected as disingenuous by left-wing leaders

By Ron Friedman

January 4, 2013
3:14 pm

The results of a draft resolution on Palestinian status are posted in the United Nations headquarters, Thursday, November 29 (photo credit: AP/Kathy Willens)

Abbas changes name of Palestinian Authority to ‘State of Palestine’

Under new decree, all stamps, signs, and official letterheads will be changed to bear the title

By Raphael Ahren and AP

January 2, 2013
12:52 am

Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein (left). (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Likud minister and two party MKs say they want to annex the West Bank

Netanyahu didn’t speak about a Palestinian state ‘in the full sense,’ lawmaker Yariv Levin tells Times of Israel at conference promoting a one-state solution

By Raphael Ahren

January 1, 2013
6:27 pm

A premature baby at a Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza (illustrative photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Palestinians will outnumber Jews between the river and the sea by 2020, PA report says

Ramallah official warns the numbers will end the possibility for a two-state solution

By Aaron Kalman

January 1, 2013
1:17 am

Palestinians marching with posters of Yasser Arafat, left, and Mahmoud Abbas at a Fatah rally in Ramallah in January 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas says 2013 will be year of Palestinian independence

PA leader also expresses support for resuming direct talks with Israel

By Joshua Davidovich

December 31, 2012
11:30 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Amid uproar, Netanyahu reportedly reaffirms commitment to two-state solution

PM’s statement comes after Likud MK says his 2009 Bar-Ilan speech in support of Palestinian state was just a ‘tactical’ move

By Ilan Ben Zion

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

Topic: Palestinian statehood

Cyprus upgrades Palestinian mission to embassy

Foreign minister says move in line with Nicosia’s recognition of Palestinian statehood in 1988

Abbas meets Ahmadinejad, thanks Iran for support

PA president and Iranian leader meet in Cairo following Islamic summit, discuss statehood

For Obama, centrist shift in election means more two-state advocates

US had figured only Netanyahu and one other MK would back Palestinian state in what it thought would be a rightist coalition

Israel’s UN envoy: If Mali is on France’s doorstep, Gaza is in our living room

At Security Council debate, US ambassador slams Netanyahu’s E1 building plans, stresses Palestine is not a state

Jewish-Arab party makes long-shot election bid

Daam party’s nonconformist platform calls for coexistence, ruffles feathers of established Arab lists

Netanyahu bringing about ‘the demise of the Jewish state,’ Livni charges

Hatnua party leader says Israeli voters must choose Palestinian independence over a single state where Jews are in the minority

Israel, US to establish joint forum to monitor Iran economy

Finance Minister Steinitz calls for more sanctions to curb Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons program

What’s in a name? For ‘State of Palestine,’ not much

‘At the end of the day, the Palestinian Authority won’t cause trouble for its people,’ Abbas spokesman says

Avigdor Liberman: Next government will continue to seek two-state solution

Yisrael Beytenu head says Israel does not have ‘imperialistic ambitions’; comments rejected as disingenuous by left-wing leaders

Abbas changes name of Palestinian Authority to ‘State of Palestine’

Under new decree, all stamps, signs, and official letterheads will be changed to bear the title

Likud minister and two party MKs say they want to annex the West Bank

Netanyahu didn’t speak about a Palestinian state ‘in the full sense,’ lawmaker Yariv Levin tells Times of Israel at conference promoting a one-state solution

Palestinians will outnumber Jews between the river and the sea by 2020, PA report says

Ramallah official warns the numbers will end the possibility for a two-state solution

Abbas says 2013 will be year of Palestinian independence

PA leader also expresses support for resuming direct talks with Israel

Amid uproar, Netanyahu reportedly reaffirms commitment to two-state solution

PM’s statement comes after Likud MK says his 2009 Bar-Ilan speech in support of Palestinian state was just a ‘tactical’ move

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’

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