July 4, 2016
6:58 am

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov talks to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York on June 30, 2016. (screen capture: UN)

UN envoy: Chances for peaceful future slipping away

Nicholay Mladenov repeats criticism of Israeli settlements, slams Palestinian glorification of terror

By Times of Israel staff

July 1, 2016
2:36 pm

Don’t say ‘peace process’ today

A refusal to countenance any and all politics or platitudes on the day after a 13-year-old was stabbed to death as she slept

By Sally Abrams

July 1, 2016
7:35 am

UN envoy: Quartet report should be wake-up call for Israel, Palestinians

Ahead of publication, Mladenov says return to negotiations is only possible path, calls for action ‘on all fronts’

By Carole LANDRY

June 26, 2016
1:45 pm

Anti-Semitic rhetoric from Mahmoud Abbas

The PA president blew a chance to push for peace by playing up (however briefly) the canard that Jews poison wells

By Sheldon Kirshner

June 22, 2016
8:10 pm

President Reuven Rivlin delivers a speech at the European Union Parliament in Brussels on June 22, 2016. (AFP Photo/John Thys)

Rivlin: French plan seeks peace talks ‘for negotiations’ sake’

International efforts to broker deal doomed to fail due to ‘all or nothing’ approach to two-state solution, president says

By Tamar Pileggi

June 14, 2016
5:28 am

Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, December 29 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Arab League chief cancels Ramallah visit

Nabil Elaraby reportedly postpones first official trip to Palestinian territories after Israel refuses to let him fly in by helicopter

By Dov Lieber and Times of Israel staff

June 13, 2016
4:07 pm

Arab League chief to discuss French, Arab peace bids in Ramallah

Nabil Elaraby, a vocal critic of Israel, to visit Ramallah, Hebron but will stay away from Jerusalem given heightened tensions

By Dov Lieber

June 13, 2016
2:19 pm

US President Barack Obama speaks about the investigation into the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida during a meeting with top officials in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, June 13, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/SAUL LOEB)

Obama after Orlando massacre: US must act against ‘perversions of Islam’

Omar Mateen’s wife tells feds that he also scoped out Downtown Disney shopping area and nightclub he eventually hit

By Sara Miller

June 7, 2016
4:28 pm

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat in his Ramallah office, November 23, 2015. (AFP photo / Abbas Momani)

PA official decries Rivlin’s ‘apartheid’ West Bank visit

Saeb Erekat claims president’s settlement tour was part of a plan to undermine French peace initiative

By Dov Lieber

June 7, 2016
12:10 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Give peace a chance? Take another toke

On this week’s episode: How the French initiative floated like a butterfly but failed to sting like a bee; Netanyahu’s latest overtures toward peace; Israeli democracy vs nationalism; and a plan to decriminalize cannabis goes to pot

By Raoul Wootliff

June 7, 2016
3:10 am

Zionist Union head and Labor Party leader MK Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2015. (photo credit Amir Levy/FLASh90)

Herzog: ‘US should lead’ new regional peace effort

Speaking in DC, opposition leader says Israel has real chance for peace with Arab states, who suffer less from predecessors’ ‘Israel complex’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

June 7, 2016
1:49 am

French President Francois Hollande (C), United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C-L), French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (C-R), US Secretary of State John Kerry (4th R), European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini (3rd R) and officials pose for a group photo at an international meeting in a bid to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in Paris, on June 3, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Kamil Zihnioglu)

For Israelis and Palestinians, peace plans just keep coming

A slew of proposals have been put forward in recent weeks to revive negotiations and solve the decades-long Middle East conflict

By Ben Sales

June 3, 2016
5:41 pm

French President Francois Hollande (2nd R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry prior to an international meeting on reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in Paris on June 3, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Saul Loeb)

Israel: Paris summit was a ‘missed opportunity,’ distances peace

Foreign Ministry accuses international community of caving to Abbas’s demands, and thus hardening the Palestinians’ stance

By Times of Israel staff

June 1, 2016
7:55 pm

File: UN Middle East peace envoy Nikolay Mladenov after a press conference in Gaza City, April 30, 2015. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

UN Mideast envoy: Israeli ministers are ‘killing hope’ for peace

After Jewish Home vows there will never be a Palestinian state, Mladenov expresses ‘concern’ over ‘determination of some… to block progress’

By AFP

May 28, 2016
10:21 am

Jewish settler Eliaz Cohen, left, and PLO member Muhammad Beiruti sit together near Efrat, in the West Bank. The two are members of the new movement Two States, One Homeland. (Screen capture Channel 2)

Settlers, Palestinians come together to seek EU-model end to conflict

Unlikely initiative, supported by leading figures in settler movement, envisions 2 states, but one homeland — where ‘anyone can live anywhere they want’

By Times of Israel staff

Topic: Peace process

UN envoy: Chances for peaceful future slipping away

Nicholay Mladenov repeats criticism of Israeli settlements, slams Palestinian glorification of terror

Don’t say ‘peace process’ today

A refusal to countenance any and all politics or platitudes on the day after a 13-year-old was stabbed to death as she slept

UN envoy: Quartet report should be wake-up call for Israel, Palestinians

Ahead of publication, Mladenov says return to negotiations is only possible path, calls for action ‘on all fronts’

Anti-Semitic rhetoric from Mahmoud Abbas

The PA president blew a chance to push for peace by playing up (however briefly) the canard that Jews poison wells

Rivlin: French plan seeks peace talks ‘for negotiations’ sake’

International efforts to broker deal doomed to fail due to ‘all or nothing’ approach to two-state solution, president says

Arab League chief cancels Ramallah visit

Nabil Elaraby reportedly postpones first official trip to Palestinian territories after Israel refuses to let him fly in by helicopter

Arab League chief to discuss French, Arab peace bids in Ramallah

Nabil Elaraby, a vocal critic of Israel, to visit Ramallah, Hebron but will stay away from Jerusalem given heightened tensions

Obama after Orlando massacre: US must act against ‘perversions of Islam’

Omar Mateen’s wife tells feds that he also scoped out Downtown Disney shopping area and nightclub he eventually hit

PA official decries Rivlin’s ‘apartheid’ West Bank visit

Saeb Erekat claims president’s settlement tour was part of a plan to undermine French peace initiative

Give peace a chance? Take another toke

On this week’s episode: How the French initiative floated like a butterfly but failed to sting like a bee; Netanyahu’s latest overtures toward peace; Israeli democracy vs nationalism; and a plan to decriminalize cannabis goes to pot

Herzog: ‘US should lead’ new regional peace effort

Speaking in DC, opposition leader says Israel has real chance for peace with Arab states, who suffer less from predecessors’ ‘Israel complex’

For Israelis and Palestinians, peace plans just keep coming

A slew of proposals have been put forward in recent weeks to revive negotiations and solve the decades-long Middle East conflict

Israel: Paris summit was a ‘missed opportunity,’ distances peace

Foreign Ministry accuses international community of caving to Abbas’s demands, and thus hardening the Palestinians’ stance

UN Mideast envoy: Israeli ministers are ‘killing hope’ for peace

After Jewish Home vows there will never be a Palestinian state, Mladenov expresses ‘concern’ over ‘determination of some… to block progress’

Settlers, Palestinians come together to seek EU-model end to conflict

Unlikely initiative, supported by leading figures in settler movement, envisions 2 states, but one homeland — where ‘anyone can live anywhere they want’

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