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In a letter to the Times on the occasion of Israel's 62nd birthday, Jeremy Ben-Ami of J-Street repeats the axiom that has guided public...

BY AMOS From Maureen Dowd's latest op-ed in the New York Times : "The religious institutions in Israel are stymieing every effort a...

BY AMOS Over the weekend Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman gave a long interview to the Austrian Kleine Zeitun g, based in Graz, St...

Foreign Minister and Kadima chairwoman Tsipi Livni is no longer wasting time on Ehud Barak. She is interpreting the election campaign as fig...

Some very brief, related and unrelated thoughts on the news from today about peace talks with Syria. 1. Contrary to the claims of Shelly Yac...

The Two-State Solution (Image by Makaristos ) In the wake of Annapolis, we heard mostly skepticism and derision about the latest US-backed d...

When making predictions about developments in the Middle East, I have learned to follow a simple formula over the past half-decade: imagine ...

Map of Gaza (May 2005, Perry Castaneda ) The mantra that we are hearing in the wake of Hamas's victory in the Gaza Strip is rather famil...

למען אחי ורעי - אדברה נא שלום בך "For the sake of my brothers' and companions, I will now say 'peace be within you,'" ...

Olmert plans to ride it out The government passed its first post-Winograd and post-demonstrations challenge with flying colors. In three no-...

Sunset in the north (January 2006) One of the obstacles to negotiations with Syria frequently cited by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is...

King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan ( Photo : Royal Hashemite Court Archives, Nasser Ayoub) King Abdullah II of Jordan today addresse...

(Image: Wikipedia ) At a summit that is to be held in 3 weeks, the Arab foreign ministers are expected to reiterate their commitment to the ...

Sergey Lavrov, 17 September 2004. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev Until now, the Russians have maintained at least a posture of ambiguity about ...

Putin and King Abdullah (Photo: Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia ) It remains to be seen how long the Saudi-brokered Mecca agreement between Fa...

Golan Heights, January 2007 (Photo: N ) By now, the denunciations of the report in Ha'aretz that Israelis and Syrians engaged in sec...

The map from Ross's The Missing Peace (Source: Jpundit ) It has become widely accepted among pro-Palestinian advocates that former Isra...

Spanish Minister for Defence, José Antonio Alonso, visiting Spanish UNIFIL troops in southern Lebanon (at Marjayoun) Yesterday, the Spanish ...