Jewish State

When it comes to Israel the buck stops in Washington, having enabled and continued to support its worst excesses, writes Jeff Gates* Israel's "legitimacy" will not last. Of course,...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has accused the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of funding a worldwide campaign against the Jewish state and its people. A Hebrew radio station quoted the...

Israel's Minister of Finance has called for the elimination of the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas in response to the bid for full membership of the United Nations...

An Israeli organisation concerned with workers' rights has stressed that the conditions and circumstances that female migrant workers live under in Tel Aviv are "miserable" and totally incompatible with...

An Arab member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) has warned that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a "Jewish state" would mean dropping the refugees' Right of Return from negotiations...

A member of Israel's Knesset (parliament) has accused Arab MK Haneen Zoabi of "undermining the State of Israel" by participating in the Russell Tribunal on Palestine held in Cape...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the international community for criticising his government's settlement policy but keeping quiet over the Palestinian President's efforts to reconcile with Hamas. Speaking...

Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced bullishly that a Palestinian state will not exist before the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state. In yet another shift 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...

Officials in Israel have launched a strong attack against Justice Minister Tzipi Livni for hinting that the government may be willing to give up the demand for Palestinian recognition...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Israel's Likud Party, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has proposed a basic law with constitutional status which, if passed by the Knesset, would lead to the annexation of...

The Yesh Atid Party in Israel has said that the coalition government is in danger following a freeze in the debate over the recruitment of religious students into the...

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...

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...

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he would never accept preconditions from the Palestinians for resuming talks, just a day after appearing to set his own condition that a...

An Israeli studies research centre has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of shifting the goalposts every time it looks as if a peace agreement might be possible. The Palestinian...

Israeli MK Miri Regev has proposed a new bill to the ministerial committee for legislation that would obligate the prime minister to get agreement from a majority of Knesset...

A new report claims that the United States could cut its strategic alliance with Israel in the event of the Jewish state mounting a strike against Iran. This would...

Reports in the Israeli media claim that around 100,000 American Jews have signed a petition to be presented to President Barak Obama, asking him to use the US veto...

During an address to a gathering of U.S. and Israeli politicians at the Haim Saban Centre for Middle East Studies' ninth forum of in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State,...

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...

Israeli political sources accused the British government of putting obstacles in the Jewish state's path to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).  A vote will be...

Turkish police detained around 20 students on Wednesday after they pelted Israel's ambassador with eggs to protest the Jewish state's treatment of Palestinians, forcing him to cancel a university...

The British National Library has recently informed Israeli government secretary, Zvi Hauser, that it has accepted requests to exhibit the original copy of the Balfour Declarations in Israel next...

The right of return of Palestinian refugees is often presented as a stumbling block to peace, a 'final status issue' that will require a great and painful 'compromise'. But...

With Israeli elections just around the corner, Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to retain his position at the head of a coalition government. Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister and...