Arab-Israeli conflict

Islamist movements are the main beneficiaries from the popular revolutions sweeping the Arab world, but while their differences with the West have been reduced, according to Khartoum University's political...

The Zionist Organization of America issued a press statement on Monday regarding the results of a survey which show that the vast majority of Israelis do not believe in...

Israel's Economy and Commerce Minister has told the Canadian Foreign Minister that a future state of Palestine will not be based on the borders of 1967. Right-wing politician Naftali...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, it is claimed, rejected a request from Mahmoud Abbas to provide a map of the proposed border between Israel and a future State of...

The Palestinian issue has been present in the past nine Interfaith Dialogue Conferences hosted annually in Qatar, but was only really highlighted in the 10th conference held from April...

The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, has revealed that the Palestinian Authority has rejected a US suggestion to amend the terms of the Arab peace initiative. Dr Erekat did...

The new Israeli government has stipulated impossible pre-conditions to the resumption of the stalled Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv said on Tuesday. According to Maariv, the Israeli...

A Palestinian water expert has criticised the 1993 Oslo Peace Agreement signed between the Palestinians and the Israelis for giving Israel the right to control Palestinian water. The Director...

Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has announced that he is to visit the Gaza Strip on May 8 with a delegation of...

Israeli Economics and Trade Minister, Naftali Bennett, supported by Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, has suggested a draft law that obliges the government to put any political agreements with the...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accused the current incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu of exaggerating the Iranian nuclear threat, called for a two-state solution with the Palestinians and predicted...

In a sign that Israel will keep its large illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, Arab foreign ministers have said that they are ready to endorse a new...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has expressed its concern that an agreement over land swaps with Israel will lead the Palestinian Authority and Arab world even deeper into the...

Ismail Haniyeh has praised the people and government of Sudan for their support for the Palestinian cause, especially the Gaza Strip. "It was a pleasure for Sudan to pay...

The eleven martyrs in Maroun el-Ras in southern Lebanon and the four in the occupied Golan Heights on May 15, 2011, were enough to turn the "Return to Palestine...

Palestinian population hits 11.6 million on 65th anniversary of Nakba In the wake of the 65th commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) announced...

The remaining Palestinians in the Al-Naqab area, located in the southern area of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, are seeking to internationalise their case. They are also raising...

Israel's President Shimon Peres has said that the peace agreements between his country and Egypt and Jordan "stand the test of time" as he described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised the management of Superland Amusement Park for refusing to allow Arab students to enter on the same day as Jews. He described...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation announced on Sunday that it is to unveil a package of project proposals for the development of Jerusalem worth $500 million. The Jeddah-based OIC...

An Israeli amusement park has been accused of operating an apartheid booking policy after an Arab school teacher was told that a particular day was not available once the...

Member of the organisation for Palestinian Endowments and Religious Affairs in Gaza, Ismail Ridwan, revealed on Tuesday a $6m Israeli plan to judaise Jerusalem and alter its Arabic appearance....

The Arab Index Poll for 2012/2013, conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Political Studies, has shown that the majority of Arabs in the Middle East support the...

The Palestinian Embassy in Cairo has condemned the statements attributed to ousted president Hosni Mubarak in which he claimed that the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat had leaked the...

Israel's Channel 2 TV has revealed that high-ranking Israeli figures have held a series of secret meetings over the past few weeks with representatives of Arab Gulf states to...

Jordan's head of the Development and Free Zones Commission, Maha Khatib, has denied the existence of any agreement or plans to establish a joint industrial zone with Israel. Khatib...

Following the Arab League announcement that it accepts the principle of land swap based on the 1967's borders, media reports have revealed that the US administration is working to...

An analyst and supposed expert in Arabic and Middle East affairs has called for the Israeli government to declare war on Qatar as an enemy of the state. Mordechai...

When it comes to Israel, politicians in Washington can get hysterical, making the stupidest of statements or acting idiotically. Evidence of such behaviour is common and varied; this week,...

By Dr. Eyad Sarraj We do not need a great deal of intelligence, access to classified information, round or square theories to be able to put events into perspective...

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have lashed out at the Al-Jazeera pan-Arab network for disclosing previously secret documents showing that PA negotiators had agreed to compromise over some cardinal issues...

There is no doubt about the importance of the UN recognising Palestine as a state, and more importantly its acceptance as a full member state. If such recognition is...