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Peace process The Palestinians and their allies are pressing ahead with plans to table a draft resolution at the UN Security Council condemning Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. [...]

Israel stands accused of 'systematic discrimination' against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, in a Human Rights Watch report that also urges the US to cut its aid to [...]

Last Tuesday evening, the journalist John Pilger (pictured) mounted a near two-hour attack on the journalism of the two major Anglophone countries, the US and the UK (The War You [...]

The Middle East peace process just died, but nobody seems to be in mourning. Washington's focus remains elsewhere as debate over tax cuts and the federal deficit continues. Israel has [...]

Former European leaders speak out Just as President Barack Obama appears to be giving up on any medium-term prospect of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, senior former European leaders are urging [...]

Move for indirect negotiations Israeli settlements cause policy switch The US is reverting to the idea of indirect talks between Israelis and Palestinians, just three months after Barack Obama hailed [...]

Israel will allow more exports from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, in a move that seeks to quell international criticism of its policies towards the impoverished Palestinian territory, writes Tobias Buck [...]

Last month, the US made Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, what it hoped was an offer he could not refuse. In exchange for a 90-day extension to the freeze [...]

Israel rejected offer of fighter jets The Obama administration has abandoned efforts to persuade Israel to halt settlement building before talks with Palestinians can resume, admitting defeat in a policy [...]

after offer rejected The Obama administration has abandoned efforts to persuade Israel to halt settlement building before talks with Palestinians can resume, admitting defeat in a policy it has championed [...]

Fury at recognition of Palestinian state Israel reacted angrily to decisions by Brazil and Argentina to recognise an independent Palestinian state according to the 1967 borders, writes Tobias Buck in [...]

Fury at recognition of Palestinian state Israel has reacted angrily to decisions by Brazil and Arg-en-tina to recognise an independent Palestinian state according to the 1967 borders, a move that [...]

Political resistance Opposition by the artistic community to the country's settlement policies comes at a price, writes Vita Bekker Earlier this year dozens of Israeli actors, playwrights and directors jointly [...]

Palestinian officials criticised on Thursday an Israeli plan to build more than 600 new Jewish homes in disputed East Jerusalem, warning the construction was likely to further hinder a renewal [...]

Palestinian officials have lashed out at an Israeli plan to build more than 600 Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, saying the move is likely to hinder a renewal of peace [...]

Brazil Despite progressive government policy, religious tensions and taboos remain significant barriers, says Andrew Jack In the conflict zone between the territories of two feuding drug gangs in Rio de [...]

In London There was an astonishing report out of Jerusalem last week. Israel, it said, was growing increasingly frustrated with the US. Israel unhappy? But had Washington not just offered [...]

It seems serious Israeli-Palestinian talks have not started after all. Even seven and a half hours of negotiation on November 11 between Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and [...]

The head of the Palestinian Authority said on Sunday he would not return to Middle East peace talks without an Israeli freeze on Jewish settlement construction in East Jerusalem. 'If [...]

Middle East Two security units with high-level links are blamed for an upsurge in complaints, writes Tobias Buck Naiema Abu Ayyash's worst fears were confirmed this month when she finally [...]

Congress member would hold up aid Obama will face pressure over Iran The Republican member of Congress due to take the top foreign policy post in the new GOP-controlled House [...]

Israel and the US are in talks about an American plan that promises generous security and diplomatic incentives - including the transfer of 20 advanced F-35 fighter jets - in [...]

Far-right wants building to continue Israeli PM to meet Clinton in US Benjamin Netanyahu is facing mounting pressure from his rightwing coalition partners to continue the expansion of Jewish settlements [...]

Move seen as threat to peace talks Barack Obama, US president, has criticised the Israeli government's disclosure of new plans to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. 'This [...]

Jordanian voters go to the polls on Tuesday, in an election that is widely expected to reinforce the influence of candidates close to the Hashemite monarchy and alienate opposition supporters [...]

Israel imposed curbs on the flow of goods to the Gaza Strip in 2006 and tightened them drastically after Hamas took control of the territory a year later, writes Tobias [...]

Drive for protein The Islamist group is seeking to raise farming output to reduce dependence on food imports, says Tobias Buck In a new greenhouse, large enough to contain two [...]

The Palestinian leadership is inching closer to a radical change in political strategy that would involve abandoning peace talks with Israel and instead focusing on winning US and UN recognition [...]

Portrait by Mary McCartney Interview by Hester Lacey 'When I was 19, I had the opportunity to join the circus... I still wish I had done it' Bella Freud, 49, [...]

The US is floating the idea of a deal on borders for a future Palestinian state as the first step to a more comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian agreement, as it adopts a [...]

Hotelier Samir Skaik has learnt to cope with gunmen in the lobby and no cream in the fridge, says Tobias Buck O pening a luxury boutique hotel in Gaza City [...]

No one doubts that the latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are in serious trouble. The only question is whether the process is well and truly dead - or just resting. Washington [...]

Israeli settlers have started building at least 544 housing units in the occupied West Bank since a freeze expired last month, casting renewed scepticism over whether direct talks with the [...]

Initiative will focus on settlements The Palestinian leadership is preparing to call for a UN resolution that would formally declare Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem [...]

Any hopes that the resumption of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians would lead to a breakthrough are fading fast. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu still rejects any meaningful [...]

Setback for efforts to restart talks Plans for 238 East Jerusalem homes International efforts to revive the stalled round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have suffered a [...]

Setback for efforts to restart talks Plans for 238 East Jerusalem homes International efforts to revive the stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have suffered a fresh setback, [...]

International efforts to revive the stalled round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have suffered a fresh setback. The Israeli government has approved building of 238 new houses [...]

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to renew the moratorium on new building in Jewish West Bank settlements - if Palestinian leaders agree to recognise Israel as 'the homeland of [...]

The latest round of IsraeliPalestinian negotiations is already on shaky ground. At issue, once again, is Israel's insistence that it can build and expand settlements in the West Bank and [...]