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'Tomorrow is Yesterday,' by Hussein Agha, center (photo by Brett Walker), and Robert Malley (Kelley Norcia Photography)
December 31, 2025, 3:46 am
Two long-time negotiators dissect what’s at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
In new book ‘Tomorrow is Yesterday,’ Jewish US diplomat Robert Malley and veteran Palestinian negotiator Hussein Agha team up to look at the hard truths behind the stalled two-state solution
By Rich Tenorio
Arab leaders attend a multilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump to discuss the situation in Gaza, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 23, 2025. (Reuters)
September 30, 2025, 5:04 am
Arab, Muslim nations pledge to realize Trump’s Gaza plan; Hamas examining it ‘responsibly’
Palestinian Islamic Jihad decries proposal as ‘formula for igniting the region’; Palestinian Authority welcomes it, commits to carrying out necessary reforms
By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
US President Donald Trump sits across the table from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (lower right), as French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sit next to Trump during a meeting with European leaders at the White House on August 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)
September 30, 2025, 1:38 am
Europe hails Trump’s plan to end Gaza war as ‘turning point’ for the region
France, Italy, UK all urge Hamas to accept the proposal and lay down its weapons in order to ‘end the misery’ of the past two years of war
By Agencies and Jacob Magid
US President Donald Trump listens during a news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, September 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
September 29, 2025, 11:43 pm
Seeking ‘eternal Middle East peace’: Full text of Trump, Netanyahu statements on deal to end Gaza war
President ‘not just talking about Gaza’ but about ‘everything getting solved.’ Says US will back Israel to finish the job ‘if Hamas rejects the deal.’ PM enthuses: Plan ‘achieves our war aims’
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian man uses a ladder to leave his damaged home in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 4, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
February 4, 2025, 8:09 pm
US officials defend Trump’s call to relocate Gazans from ‘uninhabitable plot of land’
Trump thinks it’s ‘inhumane’ to force people to live there while it is being rebuilt, wants to work with partners on creative solutions, source says; Rafah resident: ‘Delusional’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Author Michael Horowitz's new book is 'Hope and Despair.' (Courtesy)
October 11, 2024, 4:43 pm
A Middle East expert envisioned two paths for Israel. Then October 7 happened
French-Israeli geopolitical scholar Michael Horowitz had nearly finished his book, ‘Hope and Despair,’ when Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel. He’s still cautiously optimistic
By Rich Tenorio
From left, Ary Hammerman of White Plains, New York, Ali Salman from Ghajar, in the Golan Heights, and Tina Shammas of Nazareth in the West Bank, pose for a photo after an interview as part a Geneva junket for the Jerusalem Peacebuilders program in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)
July 27, 2024, 6:29 am
Israeli, Palestinian teens meet in Geneva to talk prospects for peace after Oct. 7
Coexistence organizations have been devastated since the Hamas massacre, but teenage delegation of the Jerusalem Peacebuilders Program insists war won’t solve conflict
By Jamey Keaten
US President Joe Biden, center, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, talk to reporters before a lunch with Senate Democrats on his budget and political agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, March 2, 2023. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
March 15, 2024, 10:38 pm
Biden hails ‘good speech’ by Schumer criticizing Netanyahu, says many Americans agree
US president backs up Senate majority leader who called the prime minister an obstacle to peace and said he’d ‘lost his way’
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Geoffrey Levin, author of 'Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978.' (Yale University Press/ Courtesy/via JTA)
February 5, 2024, 2:20 am
When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ in the US first took up the Palestinian cause
According to historian Geoffrey Levin’s book ‘Our Palestine Question,’ current divides over Israeli policy aren’t new – they existed before American Jews fully embraced Zionism
By JTA and ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary General, Hissein Brahim Taha, at the State Department in Washington, May 25, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool Photo via AP)
June 3, 2022, 2:51 am
Blinken: Saudi Arabia is a ‘critical partner’ in expanding Abraham Accords
US secretary of state says Washington balancing need to ‘recalibrate’ ties with Riyadh to account for human rights with desire to expand regional partnerships to oppose Iran
By Jacob Magid
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks at an event launching a Knesset caucus dedicated to the Abraham Accords, in Jerusalem, October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 30, 2022, 10:16 am
Lapid: Israel working with US, Gulf states on normalization with Saudi Arabia
Foreign minister stresses that process will be ‘long and careful,’ with both Jerusalem and Riyadh having security interests at stake
By ToI Staff
Henry Kissinger negotiates with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in the garden of his summer villa at Mamoura, Alexandria, on August 25, 1975. (David Hume Kennerly White House Photographs/Kissinger Papers at Yale University)
November 30, 2021, 2:20 am
Martin Indyk says Kissinger’s Machiavellian tactics helped stabilize Israel, Mideast
In ‘Master of the Game,’ his new bio on the former US secretary of state, veteran diplomat Indyk looks at how regional powers were leveraged into living with each other
By JP O’ Malley
Jordan's King Abdullah II laughs with his half-brother, then-crown prince Hamzah Bin Hussein, right, on April 2, 2001 (AP Photo/Yousef Allan)
April 7, 2021, 7:48 pm
Jordan papers over royal feud, but major challenges loom
Kingdom’s status as a dependable Western ally in a volatile region comes under threat, as it copes with an economic crisis made worse by COVID and palace intrigue
By Sarah El Deeb and Joseph Krauss
From left to right, EU Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process Susanna Terstal, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and UN special coordinator for the Middle East Tor Wennesland pose for a group photo prior to their meeting in Paris, March 11, 2021. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)
March 11, 2021, 8:00 pm
European, Arab diplomats attempt to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts
Officials say potential ‘small steps’ toward peace may come after Jerusalem and Ramallah hold elections
By AP
(L-R)Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents as they participated in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
September 16, 2020, 6:50 pm
Israel-UAE peace key to averting global climate disaster — Tel Aviv U. scholar
In ‘The Power of Deserts,’ Prof. Dan Rabinowitz envisions a new Mideast paradigm to save the planet — one that is unexpectedly playing out today under new normalization ties
By Aviv Lavie
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