December 7, 2015
4:23 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on December 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM accuses Sweden of hypocrisy over Israeli response to terror

Netanyahu slams Stockholm for silence on the handling of Paris, California attacks after Wallstrom’s reported condemnation of Jewish state

By Tamar Pileggi

December 3, 2015
11:50 pm

President Reuven Rivlin, October 28, 2015. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin proposes Israeli-Palestinian ‘confederation’

President floats idea of two states with borders including land swaps, as well as separate parliaments, but only one army

By Tamar Pileggi and Raphael Ahren

November 12, 2015
1:49 pm

Jewish winemakers inspecting grapes at a winery in the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, September 8, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Islamic State claims Beirut suicide bombings

At least 41 killed as bombings rock Hezbollah bastion in Beirut; court upholds demolition of five terrorists’ homes

By Elie Leshem

November 9, 2015
2:59 pm

In this Oct.18, 2015 file photo, US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech during a luncheon at the UNESCO in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

US retaining UNESCO board seat despite Palestine membership flap

Bid to maintain membership on key forum seen successful even though US pulled funding when cultural agency recognized Palestine

By Thomas Adamson

November 8, 2015
9:22 am

A screen capture from the Hebrew Facebook page of the PLO's Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society, November 8, 2015. (screen capture)

PLO launches Facebook page — in Hebrew

Ramallah-based Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society seeks to make the Palestinian case directly to Israelis

By Times of Israel staff

November 3, 2015
6:25 am

Yossi Beilin at the Israel Conference on Democracy in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

Oslo architect: Netanyahu will withdraw unilaterally from much of West Bank

Beilin urges interim deal followed by confederation, but doubts PM will opt for it; slams Kerry for thinking he can ‘come for a few hours’ and solve the problem

By Raphael Ahren

October 28, 2015
8:28 pm

Prime Minister Netanyahu during a press conference on the security situation on October 8, 2015, at his office in Jerusalem. (AFP photo/Gali Tibbon)

Why Netanyahu won’t approve a Palestinian state

Despite PM’s repeated calls for new negotiations, and support in principle for a two-state solution, recent statements underline his deep-rooted belief that, for ‘the foreseeable future,’ Palestine is a non-starter

By Raphael Ahren

October 27, 2015
10:23 pm

Palestinian girls sit in front of the Dome of the Rock in the Temple Mount compound on October 23, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Losing Palestine

The terrorism of the past month is not a new surge in Palestinian opposition to Israel, but a howl against the pervasive Palestinian sense that resistance has failed

By Haviv Rettig Gur

October 27, 2015
2:56 pm

EU Foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the European Union External Action headquarters in Brussels on Monday, October 26, 2015 (PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND)

European Union briefly invokes ‘State of Palestine’

EU foreign policy desk scrambles to change wording of statement, attributes formulation to ‘technical error’

By Raphael Ahren

October 27, 2015
11:22 am

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon during a speech at a memorial event in Washington DC to mark the 20th anniversary of the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, October 26, 2015 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Rabin never backed Palestinian statehood, Ya’alon claims

In Washington, defense minister says that while Israel extends its hand in peace, Arab leaders incite and spread lies

By Adiv Sterman

October 11, 2015
12:37 am

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting following the death of minister Uri Orbach, who passed away at the age of 54. February 16, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Bennett: Government doesn’t back PM on Palestinian state

Jewish Home leader calls Netanyahu’s support for two-state solution ‘his opinion,’ says violence stems from Palestinian ‘hope to destroy Israel’

By Tamar Pileggi

October 1, 2015
9:41 pm

Mustafa Barghouti speaks the Palestine Center of the Jerusalem Fund, 10 September, 2013 (screen capture: YouTube)

‘Oslo accords are over,’ top Palestinian official says

Mustafa Barghouti takes Abbas’s UN speech a step further, asserting PA will cease to abide by agreements with Israel

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

October 1, 2015
6:42 pm

US President Barack Obama speaks to Democratic state legislators in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House on September 30, 2015 in Washington, DC (AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN)

Obama ‘refused to oppose Palestinian UN statehood bid’

In latest sign of Washington-Jerusalem rift, White House said to have declined repeated request to come out publicly against unilateral PA move

By Times of Israel staff

September 30, 2015
11:35 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas raises the Palestinian flag as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon looks on during a ceremony in the rose garden of the UN's New York headquarters, September 30, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

At the UN, Palestinians raise a flag but few hopes

On spot where Israeli diplomats last week introduced the UN to a Jewish sin-cleansing rite, Abbas declares ‘Day of the Palestinian Flag’

By Raphael Ahren

September 21, 2015
11:20 pm

Flags of UN member states, arranged in alphabetical order, outside UN Headquarters in New York. (Wikipedia/Aotearoa/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Vatican to raise flag at UN with Palestinians, but without fanfare

Unlike Ramallah, Holy See wants no shift in relationship with global body, but changes mind on flying standard

By AFP

Topic: Palestinian statehood

PM accuses Sweden of hypocrisy over Israeli response to terror

Netanyahu slams Stockholm for silence on the handling of Paris, California attacks after Wallstrom’s reported condemnation of Jewish state

Rivlin proposes Israeli-Palestinian ‘confederation’

President floats idea of two states with borders including land swaps, as well as separate parliaments, but only one army

Islamic State claims Beirut suicide bombings

At least 41 killed as bombings rock Hezbollah bastion in Beirut; court upholds demolition of five terrorists’ homes

US retaining UNESCO board seat despite Palestine membership flap

Bid to maintain membership on key forum seen successful even though US pulled funding when cultural agency recognized Palestine

PLO launches Facebook page — in Hebrew

Ramallah-based Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society seeks to make the Palestinian case directly to Israelis

Oslo architect: Netanyahu will withdraw unilaterally from much of West Bank

Beilin urges interim deal followed by confederation, but doubts PM will opt for it; slams Kerry for thinking he can ‘come for a few hours’ and solve the problem

Why Netanyahu won’t approve a Palestinian state

Despite PM’s repeated calls for new negotiations, and support in principle for a two-state solution, recent statements underline his deep-rooted belief that, for ‘the foreseeable future,’ Palestine is a non-starter

Losing Palestine

The terrorism of the past month is not a new surge in Palestinian opposition to Israel, but a howl against the pervasive Palestinian sense that resistance has failed

European Union briefly invokes ‘State of Palestine’

EU foreign policy desk scrambles to change wording of statement, attributes formulation to ‘technical error’

Rabin never backed Palestinian statehood, Ya’alon claims

In Washington, defense minister says that while Israel extends its hand in peace, Arab leaders incite and spread lies

Bennett: Government doesn’t back PM on Palestinian state

Jewish Home leader calls Netanyahu’s support for two-state solution ‘his opinion,’ says violence stems from Palestinian ‘hope to destroy Israel’

‘Oslo accords are over,’ top Palestinian official says

Mustafa Barghouti takes Abbas’s UN speech a step further, asserting PA will cease to abide by agreements with Israel

Obama ‘refused to oppose Palestinian UN statehood bid’

In latest sign of Washington-Jerusalem rift, White House said to have declined repeated request to come out publicly against unilateral PA move

At the UN, Palestinians raise a flag but few hopes

On spot where Israeli diplomats last week introduced the UN to a Jewish sin-cleansing rite, Abbas declares ‘Day of the Palestinian Flag’

Vatican to raise flag at UN with Palestinians, but without fanfare

Unlike Ramallah, Holy See wants no shift in relationship with global body, but changes mind on flying standard

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