British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron are reportedly poised to recognize Palestine as a state within the coming days. If they do so, they will regrettably...
Formal Recognition Planned for September: UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that the United Kingdom will formally recognize a Palestinian state if Israel does not take...
The International Court of Justice “should not find that Israel is legally obligated to immediately and unconditionally withdraw from occupied territory,” a U.S. representative...
The request to the International Court of Justice is designed to subvert the peace process by making Israel's legal occupation unlawful
No deal is perfect, but any improvement should not be downplayed when it makes the volatile Middle East more peaceful and win-win.
International law does not license aggressors to launch risk-free wars
President Trump wrote on Twitter this afternoon, “After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Isra...
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Notwithstanding the distractions of the holiday season, a considerable debate has erupted over the significance of U.N. Security Council ...
On March 16, a group of gay Israeli teenagers was set to meet with the Seattle LGBT Commission, a body representing the interests of the gay community before the city government. The students wer...
As the guns fell silent in June 1967, diplomacy sought a solution to the simmering Arab-Israeli dispute. In November 1967, it produced the answer - Resolution 242, which since then has b...
The diplomatic offensive that the Palestinian Authority launched last year to persuade the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a state will come to fruition this September. Unless there is a...
On May 3, Hamas and Fatah, the two largest and most influential Palestinian factions, created a unity government. Following a brutal civil war in 2007 that left Hamas in control of the Gaza...
The Palestinians zealously celebrated last week’s unity deal between Hamas and Fatah. Young men in both the West Bank and Gaza cruised around in their cars, honking and flashing the victory...
Forty years ago this week, on the third day of the Six-Day War, Israel entered the Old City of Jerusalem. Returning to the Western Wall from which he and all other Jews had, in blatant violation...
"Led on by gushing reports filed on June 27 by the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP), media outlets report that Hamas and Fatah have reached a new agreement "implicitly recogni...
Speaking at the White House during his recent visit to Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert renewed his call for negotiations with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the w...
In a few weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to turn Gaza over to the Palestinian Authority. Angry protests have shaken Israel. Gun battles have broken out among rival Palestinian fa...
The true legacy of Yasser Arafat.
A country's right to defend itself against external attack is so irreducible a component of sovereignty as to have been assumed from time immemorial. Recent events, however, have cast seriou...