Strategic starts are aligning for Israel
One of American Vice President Joe Biden's favourite Israel-related stories is about his 1973 meeting with then-Israeli prime minister Golda Meir.Following a briefing on the Six-Day War, Mrs Meir told...
View ArticleFor Blair, Iraq war was route to solving Israel-Palestine
Now that Sir John Chilcot's report has landed with a shuddering crash, how are we to judge Tony Blair, at the centre of it all?The criticisms in Sir John's two and half million words are widespread and...
View ArticleTrade, not aid, is key to peace
The Palestinian Authority has received an estimated $25 billion since its inception in 1994. That is a lot of money. (Israel has of course received a lot more than that since then, mainly from the US)....
View ArticleDiscord over Board peace plan
The Board of Deputies is to launch a programme involving synagogues and churches to support "peace-making" between Israelis and Palestinians.Invest in Peace, which has been in the pipeline for several...
View ArticleHow Putin became a go-to 'peacemaker'
No date has yet been set for a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow and, even if it does take place, it is unlikely to yield a...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn applauded by Labour Friends of Israel as he outlines hopes for...
Jeremy Corbyn has outlined his hope of working to bring a “permanent, long-term peace” to the Middle East, while telling Labour Friends of Israel he would not allow the party to become a home for...
View ArticleIsrael lacking partners in peace, MK complains
Likud's first openly gay Knesset member has told a British audience Israel has no partner for peace among the Palestinians.Amir Ohana discussed Israel's political situation and his own right-wing...
View ArticleIsrael rejects Paris 'peace' conference
Israel and France are at logger-heads over Jerusalem's refusal to participate in a international peace conference that the French government is insisting on holding before the end of the year.Special...
View ArticleObama now more likely to take a final shot at the 'peace process'
On Sunday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened the weekly cabinet meeting assuring Israelis that whoever is elected as the new American president, "I am convinced Israel-US relations,...
View ArticleIsraeli rabbis, Hamas founder call for peace
Israeli rabbis have joined up with a founder of Hamas's military wing and other Palestinian sheikhs to issue a joint commitment "to relentlessly seek peace".Their declaration came at end of a peace...
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