December 14, 2012
10:45 am

Arab League headquarters in Cairo (photo credit: Ijanderson977/Wikimedia Commons)

Palestinian Authority still waiting on emergency funds promised by Arab states

Arab League official says no date has been set for transfer of $100 million to Ramallah

By Yoel Goldman

December 12, 2012
6:24 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waves to the crowd during celebrations for their successful bid to win nonmember state status at the UN in Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 (photo credit: Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP Photo)

Is Palestine a state? That may depend on the Palestinians

While international legal scholars debate the weight of ‘nonmember observer state’ status, the burden is ultimately on the Palestinians to show that they can act like a sovereign power

By Raphael Ahren

December 11, 2012
11:14 pm

Jordan's King Abdullah II (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Jordanian king slams Israel’s ‘unilateral policies’

Abdullah meets with British PM, expresses hope in reestablishing peace process

By Asher Zeiger

December 10, 2012
8:23 am

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, right, being greeted by his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Liberman in Jerusalem in 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Swedish foreign minister says E1 settlement plan has changed EU’s view of Israel

European ministers expected to slam Israeli moves at meeting in Brussels, without imposing concrete punitive measures like boycotting West Bank goods

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 6, 2012
9:37 pm

The Bnei Jeshurun synagogue on Manhattan's Upper West Side (photo credit: Americasroof/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Prominent NY synagogue’s rabbis regret tone of email that supported UN vote

Spiritual leaders at B’nai Jeshurun affirm their message on upgrade of ‘Palestine’, but say it did not reflect ‘complexities of this moment’

December 5, 2012
12:58 pm

Palestinians celebrate as they watch a screen showing the UN General Assembly votes on a resolution to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority to a nonmember observer state, In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, November 29, 2012. (photo credit: Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Cheering UN Palestine vote, synagogue tests its members

From the web NY Times: Congregation B’nai Jeshurun divided after rabbis send out email welcoming decision that granted the PA nonmember state status

December 5, 2012
7:32 am

Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Nov. 29 (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Despite anger at UN gambit, Canada to continue aid to Palestinians

$300-million commitment in funding for security and humanitarian aid is important and will remain, says FM spokesman

December 5, 2012
1:25 am

Construction workers are seen at the E-1 construction site near Maaleh Adumim in 2007. (photo credit: Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Palestinians’ war crimes case against Israel would face long road

Trying to prosecute Israel is not so simple, and could leave the Palestinians themselves vulnerable to prosecution

By Josef Federman and Mike Corder

December 4, 2012
10:52 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Jerusalem in 2011 (photo credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Israel’s relationship with Germany strained after abstaining on Palestinian UN bid

From the web Der Spiegel: Berlin was expected to vote ‘no,’ but was swayed by Olmert’s support for the resolution

December 4, 2012
5:45 pm

British Foreign Secretary William Hague (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90/File)

EU won’t punish Israel for settlement expansion plan, says Britain’s foreign minister

Netanyahu’s spokesman: Jerusalem hasn’t decided whether to move forward with construction in E1, despite the preliminary planning and zoning authorization; Cairo summons ambassador

By Michal Shmulovich

December 4, 2012
11:17 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) and King Abdullah II of Jordan during a welcoming ceremony in Ramallah in 2011 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

King Abdullah II reportedly to visit Ramallah on Thursday

Jordan’s monarch will be first head of state to meet with Abbas since the UN vote admitting Palestine as a nonmember observer state

By Gabe Fisher

December 4, 2012
9:01 am

Tzipi Livni (photo credit: Ben David/Flash90)

Government ‘poked Obama in the eye’ with new settlement construction, Livni charges

But Deputy FM Ayalon says diplomatic drubbing over decision to build in controversial E1 corridor ‘not the end of the world’ for Israel

By Times of Israel staff

December 3, 2012
3:41 pm

Benny Begin (L) with Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The politics of petulance

Israel is moving to the right — unsurprisingly, given the threats on every front — but the Likud just took that shift to a whole new level. Electing a band of grandstanding populists, and announcing settlement plans as a kind of punishment to the Palestinians, won’t help Israel negotiate the treacherous new regional realities

By David Horovitz

December 2, 2012
7:01 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a weekly cabinet meeting (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

PM says Palestinian incitement against Israel reflects root of the conflict

‘This is not a dispute over land, but a denial of the existence of the state of Israel,’ Netanyahu tells ministers

By Philip Podolsky

December 2, 2012
4:35 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waves to thousands of Palestinian supporters in Ramallah upon his return from the UN on Sunday, Dec. 2 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

‘We now have a state, Abbas declares, returning triumphant to Ramallah

President tells crowd of thousands ‘We won’ and dedicates victory to Arafat and martyrs

By Asher Zeiger and AP

Topic: Palestinian UN bid