peace process

He was sentenced to life in prison and she was sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms. He is affiliated to Fatah; she is a member of Hamas. Today, however,...

A senior member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Chairman of the Palestinian delegation for the negotiations, has said that the Israeli government is neither...

Israel's Defence Minister has called on his government to break the deadlock in the peace process. Ehud Barak said that failure to do so will lead to Israel's isolation...

The Palestinian Authority has said that the latest law to be approved by the Israeli parliament sounds the death knell of the peace process. The Knesset has approved a...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESMembers of the International Council of Elders began a 24 hour visit to the Gaza Strip on 16 October; the delegation was led by the former President of...

A senior member of the Central Committee of Fatah has said that the next meeting of the Arab Follow-up Committee will be told by the Palestinian leadership that there...

In an interview to be broadcast on Friday evening, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told Arabic Sky News that the international community and the brokers of the peace...

The US Administration has accused Israeli Defence Minister and Labour Party leader Ehud Barak of deceiving and misleading it about his ability to promote progress in the peace process....

Russia's permanent delegate at the United Nations has called the continued construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories "the biggest obstacle to the two-state solution". Vitaly...

Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts have been at a standstill since 2009, and no new initiative will emerge from either side soon. The Netanyahu government is not interested in a two-state...

The source of the latest (but almost certainly not the last) attempt to revive the so-called "peace process" is shrouded in mystery. Egyptian officials claim that they kicked it...

Last week, Brazil gave official recognition to a Palestinian state within the pre-Six Day War 1967 borders, following a written request from the Palestinian Authority's President Mahmoud Abbas. In...

As the people of Palestine come to terms with the apparent betrayal of their rights by the people appointed to negotiate with the Israelis on behalf of the Palestinian...

We Told You So!Many people told them so — told them, meaning told the United States and Israel and even the overeager Palestinian leadership, that the Oslo agreement in...

In an interview for the BBC during an emergency tour of the Middle East earlier this month, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "Amid the opportunity for countries like...

By Fahmi Huwaidi This has been a week of shocks in the Middle east "peace process". In fact, it's been a week of scandals which should leave Arabs shamefaced....

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...

It is expected widely that the current outbreak of popular unrest and protests across the occupied West Bank will become a third intifada, with a new shape and activities....

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...