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According to classified briefings in Congress, Israeli efforts to steal US secrets under the cover of trade missions and joint defence technology contracts have "crossed red lines," Newsweek magazine reported...

A day after Palestinians reached a national unity government, Israel announced the suspension of the never ending peace talks. The Israeli position was echoed instantly in Washington by one...

As the commemoration of the Nakba approaches, Israel embarked on disseminating its fabricated patriotism through contradictory statements glorifying violence in the pursuit of alleged peace. Speeches by Israeli President...

Representative of the Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov met yesterday with the head of Hamas' political bureau Khalid Meshaal in Doha, they discussed Israeli aggressions and...

According to Badil Resource Center for Refugee Rights, there are approximately 4.8 million UNRWA-registered Palestinian refugees (*Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons – Volume VII – 2010-2012)....

  Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat has ordered an investigation into allegations that US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime...

The foreign ministers of Italy, Ireland and Luxembourg, along with the EU's top diplomat, announced yesterday their strong and distinct support for the Palestinian reconciliation agreement, Secretary-General of the...

The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday that it expects a drop in the wheat harvest this year. General Manager of Guidance and Rural Development in the Ministry of...

Senior US officials are planning to visit Israel in the near future after the collapse of peace talks with the Palestinians, US State Department announced yesterday. The department denied...

A number of Arab countries are ready to pay the wages of government employees in Gaza when the national unity government is formed, Hamas representative in Lebanon Ali Baraka...

Israel might battle Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said yesterday. Gantz visited training camps in the north of...

An informed American official told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to replace most of his team members who work on...

A monthly report by the Palestinian Youth Media Assembly revealed that Israeli violations of press freedom continued in April, documenting at least 10 cases of assaults on journalists and...

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called on Sunday for classifying attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians as "terrorist acts," Israeli army radio reported. "We must recognise that there are...

The Jewish Agency, said Sunday that the number of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants to Israel increased by 142% during the first four months of the current year compared with the...

Hamas will not recognise Israel's right to exist or the international Quartet's terms, a top Hamas official said. Deputy Head of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk told reporters...

Israel's daily newspaper Haaretz has published an article strongly criticising the Israeli occupation army's treatment of detained Palestinian children. "What kind of country throws a teen out of an...

The award-winning Israeli historian and scholar on Fascism, Zeev Sternhell, has said that calling for the Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state is like asking them to...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated his belief that, while Israel "gives full equal rights to all its citizens , it is the nation-state of one people –...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian Ministerial Council in the Gaza Strip, Abdul-Salam Syam, said on Sunday that administrative arrangements are being made for the return of 3,000 members...

Senior Fatah official Marwan Barghouti has joined Hamas members and other Palestinian prisoners on an open-ended hunger strike in Israeli jails. According to the former Minister of Palestinian Prisoners...

Turkey was the first Muslim state to recognise Israel after its inception in 1948, and later established full diplomatic relations with it. The strict secular regime supported by the...

The new activism of a young generation in the US has largely come out of the multiplicity and consistency of a new media narrative confidently mushrooming from a new...

The head of Lebanon's Maronite church will make history this month when he becomes the first such figure to visit Israel since its foundation in 1948. The announcement that...

It is time for the Palestinian leadership to reconsider its losing bet on the United States, which oscillates from being an opponent that is biased towards Israeli strategy and...

Like previous agreements, the Palestinian reconciliation deal has been described as "historic". Officially, the damaging political split between Palestinians is over, but will this latest agreement be any better...

Soon after the signing of the Wye River Agreement in 1998 Israel's minister of infrastructure in the first Netanyahu government, the late, unlamented Ariel Sharon, urged settlers to "seize...

There is nothing imaginary about Israel's threat to attack Gaza. It is real; both the Hamas-led administration and civilian population in the enclave have had to live with it...

Has the Israeli government crossed a red line in its dealings with the US? It is a reasonable assumption after Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon's recent derisory comments about Secretary...

If he succeeds with his current "peace" initiative, John Kerry would have killed three birds, not two, with one stone. With the stroke of a pen his "proposed framework"...

Israel's international isolation has finally become a reality. Within the past week this was cemented by the absence of senior Israeli politicians from Nelson Mandela's funeral, followed in rapid...

There are certain events in the life of nations that define their history for generations. In South Africa, the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and the 1976 Soweto Uprising are prime...