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A member of the Israeli parliament has called on Benjamin Netanyahu not to waste any more time over telling the Palestinian Authority that he is ready to accept the...

Strategic analysts have said that Cairo's role as mediator in the Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange deal puts Egypt back on centre stage of Middle East affairs. According to Major-General Abdel-Moneim...

The Prime Minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza has said that he and his colleagues back the establishment of a Palestinian state on "liberated land". However, said Ismail...

The Jordanian monarch has stressed his country's independence and the Palestinians' right to an independent Palestinian state. "Jordan is Jordan and Palestine is Palestine," King Abdullah II told a...

Israeli defence sources have revealed that the Regional Brigade located in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has held a surprise drill based on the scenario of civil unrest...

The Israeli government has announced that it will hire foreign labour to work in the settlement construction industry and to cope with an expected increase in settlement expansion projects...

Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Menha Bakhoum, has stated that Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohamed Al Orabi, has received a verbal message from Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, regarding...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The president of the European parliament, Jerzy Buzek crossed into the Gaza Strip today, via the Israeli Eretz crossing. He visited the Society for Deaf Children and...

Member of Fatah's Central Committee and its Commissioner of international relations, Dr Nabil Shaath, has confirmed Palestinian intentions to go to the United Nations to gain recognition of a...

An opinion poll conducted by Israel's Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs has revealed that 77 percent of Israelis oppose withdrawal from the occupied West Bank to the borders of...

Meir Dagan, the former chief of Israel's external intelligence body, Mossad, urged the Netanyahu government to launch a new political initiative with the aim of ensuring Israel's existence in...

Israel's political elite have welcomed US President Barack Obama's retreat from his call for the establishment of a Palestinian state along the June 4th 1967 borders. In an address...

The Secretary General-elect of the Arab League has said that the Palestinian and Arab people "no longer accept provisional notions or partial solutions and proposals which aim to prolong...

The President of Israel has claimed that a move by the Palestinian Authority to seek UN recognition of an independent Palestinian state will "continue, not bring an end to,...

A spokesman for Fatah has described as "political terrorism" the incitement by Israel against the Palestinian reconciliation agreement and national unity. In a press statement, Fayez Abu Eita said:...

Fatah has accused Israel of trying to capitalise on the killing of Osama Bin Laden by suggesting that the Palestinian struggle against the occupation is linked to al-Qaeda. The...

Tel Aviv has threatened to take a series of unilateral steps if a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders gains official recognition in September which is the deadline given...

Israel's Defence Minister has warned that a "political tsunami" could hit the country through the wave of international recognition of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders. "We are...

Saleh Rafat, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, confirmed Palestine's insistence on "prosecuting" Israel for its "crimes". The leadership refused to give in to...

During a recent interview, the chief of Hamas' political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, denied that his movement is behind the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv on November 21;...

Meretz, the Israeli left-wing party, has announced a five-year peace plan with the Palestinians to replace the Oslo agreement. Under the plan, Israel would help Palestine to be accepted...

The Israeli Defence Minister has called for unilateral disengagement from the West Bank excluding the major settlement blocs, which will be annexed to the Zionist state. Ehud Barak's proposal...

The Palestinian Authority has warned the deadlock in peace talks with the Israelis will result in a single state governed by the system of apartheid. In a document circulated...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has expressed its satisfaction at the statements made by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, saying that they help to reinforce international peace and security....

In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, King Abdullah II of Jordan warned Israel about its "religious transgressions" against Al-Aqsa Mosque. He stressed that attempts to...

The Mufti of Al-Azhar University in Cairo has urged the leaders of the 57 Muslim-majority states meeting in Makkah to withdraw the Arab Peace Initiative in response to the...

The Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas has said that the movement is holding discussions with Jordan about future relations between the two. Mousa Abu Marzouq added...

The Arab League's Deputy Secretary-General for the affairs of Palestine and the occupied Arab territories has claimed that the Israelis "are more likely" to have been behind the latest...

The head of Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, met with Jordan's King Abdullah II and senior officials on Thursday for discussions on Palestine. King Abdullah reassured Mr Meshaal of...

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...

John Gatt-Rutter, the European Union Representative in Jerusalem, has expressed his belief that it is impossible to establish a viable Palestinian state without area 'C'. Speaking during a discussion...

The League of Arab States has renewed its commitment to the Arab peace initiative as the only way to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East. The region,...