Final Status Talks

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...

PLO Executive Committee member Dr. Saeb Erekat has condemned threats made by Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird that his country would cut off its aid to the Palestinian Authority...

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...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations has expressed his belief that the current situation in the occupied Palestinian territories "cannot continue" from both a political and economic perspective. In...

Israel's Palestinian citizens have rejected the proposal made by Arab League foreign ministers to agree to land swaps between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The rejection was made on...

80 per cent of those killed by Israeli forces killed during the last four days of the war waged on the Gaza Strip in November were uninvolved civilians, Israeli...

As Israeli justice minister, Tzipi Livni, met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on Wednesday, the Israel Civil Administration approved a plan to build 296 housing...

Marwan Barghouti has criticised the concept of land swaps with the Israelis and called for a Palestinian state on all of the land occupied by Israel in 1967. The...

A member of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ezzat Al-Resheq, has denied claims made in an Egyptian newspaper that Khaled Meshaal said, "Hamas is willing, in principle, to have negotiations...

Saeb Erekat, member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, stated that the Israeli government "Continues to exercise the settlement policy on the occupied Palestinian territories." During a...

Chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said on Monday that Israeli settlements are the main obstacle before efforts to revive the peace process, and that the Palestinian Authority is prepared...

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...

An Israeli official has claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not freeze West Bank settlements in order to facilitate the resumption of peace talks and negotiations with the...

"Do we want to live in a permanent Intifada?" asked US Secretary of State John Kerry during the World Economic Forum in Jordan. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and...

Israeli officials are making Israeli security an excuse not to reopen peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni claimed on Monday. Livni, who is in charge...

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour has told Maariv newspaper that the lack of progress in US efforts for the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations will have a negative impact on...

A Palestinian official said on Wednesday that US Secretary of State John Kerry's chances of reviving peace negotiations between the PA and Israel are slim. Veteran negotiator Nabil Shaath...

An Israeli TV station has said that the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank makes a two-state solution unrealistic and almost impossible to achieve. Israel's Channel...

The chief of Israel's secret service (Shabak), Yoram Cohen, has expressed his pessimism about the latest US moves aimed at reviving Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, Israeli radio reported on Tuesday. Cohen...

A senior member of the Fatah Central Committee said on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority leadership will not give more time for the US Secretary of State's efforts to...

Central EU states are planning to support Palestinian efforts against Israel in The Hague should the latter thwarted US Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to revive the peace...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has insisted that there will be no peace with the Israeli occupation authorities without Jerusalem, nor can there be any stability in the region. In...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas a year ago rejected a suggestion by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to release 50 pre-Oslo Palestinian prisoners as a good-will gesture to restart...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set out his conditions for the resumption of talks with the Palestinians; the establishment of a demilitarised Palestinian state which recognises Israel as...

Work started on Tuesday on the construction of a seven-storey building adjacent to the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa. The land next to the Magharbeh Gate into the sanctuary is...

An opinion poll conducted by the Smith Research Centre has revealed that the vast majority of Israelis are opposed to the release of Palestinian prisoners in return for the...

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...

Contradicting statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior officials, Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon has repeated his claim that Israel's ruling party and the governing coalition are strongly...