Obama administration

The Speaker of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has expressed concern that Israel will face security and political obstacles over settlements if US President Barack Obama is re-elected. Reuben...

A report in the Israeli media alleges that America and Israel are on the brink of a diplomatic standoff over the issue of Iran. The claim has been made...

The former Director of Israel's Mossad spy agency, Danny Yatom, has ruled out any response by the Syrian army or Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon to the Israeli attack on...

A report issued by the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) has highlighted the abuse of such rights by the security agencies operated by the Palestinian...

Israel is expected to face a $500 million reduction in aid it receives from America due to Barack Obama's budget cuts. Direct military aid which helps to develop anti-missile...

The US Senate has called on the Obama administration to launch a diplomatic campaign "to convince the world not to recognise a Palestinian state, in case the matter is...

The Obama administration is discussing several ways to confront Iran's nuclear ambitions in the hope that Washington can forestall a unilateral Israeli attack, the New York Times said on...

A former US ambassador to the United Nations has said that Israel must make its own decision regarding an attack against Iran. John Bolton noted that it still has...

Cairo: It's understandable that each country is entitled to pursue its national interests, and that one country's national interest may partially conflict with that of another. But it's difficult...

Edward Said's scholarly work on Western media coverage of Muslim and Arab countries showed that it has been shaped by discreet cultural biases or political motives. This fact couldn't...

US President Barack Obama will pay a visit to the Middle East next month. This will be his first trip to Israel in particular since his election in 2008...

There is mounting pressure on the Obama administration amid concerns at its effectiveness as a peace broker in the Middle East conflict. Senator George Mitchell, US envoy to the...

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, pre-empted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the annual conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) by warning of the consequences...

Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has been very active in the last week in deploring the unity deal between Palestine's two main parties, Hamas and Fatah. Netanyahu has even...

It has been decades since the Israeli leadership has attempted to interfere in American presidential elections in the manner Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attempted in the past...

LAST August I predicted that as the US election drew closer, and as the President's re-election became certain, a credible scenario would be for Israel to strike Iran, pre-empting...

It is difficult for the observer to forecast the course of events in our region. The ongoing changes in the Arab region and the Middle East are many. The...

Al-Jazeera Center for Research The Obama administration has made the re-launch of the stalled 'peace process' between the Palestinians and the Israelis a top priority in the region with...

Have you noticed how Washington has quietly stopped trying to "freeze settlement activities" – a Palestinian precondition for the resumption of peace negotiations – after the Obama administration found...

We assume that the Obama administration is committed to the peace process and the "two states for two peoples" solution. We have no doubt on this proposition, particularly when...

Barak Obama's visit to the Middle East did nothing to revive the moribund peace process; nor did he try to halt Israel's illegal settlement programme. In fact, the US...