Middle East

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Israeli public commission investigating the deadly raid by IDF soldiers of a Gaza-bound Turkish ship had conducted an impartial investigation, a US official said on Monday. The first part of the panel’s report, which was released on Sunday, found that the Israeli soldiers who took part in a raid on the

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)–The following statement was issued Monday by StandWithUs, an Israeli advocacy group: In the fall of 2010, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to resume direct peace negotiations with Israel. Instead, he is actively trying to abandon negotiations altogether. He has asked the international community to immediately recognize an independent Palestinian state with

WASHINGTON, D.C — J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami issued the following statement in response to the release of over 1,600 internal documents from the last decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations: How many more signs are needed before the White House recognizes the need for a serious Presidential initiative to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — The “Palestine Papers” hoax is (or, more accurately, should be) turning into the most teachable moment about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in modern history. At least, everyone has reversed what happened: The compromise position was offered by Israel; the Palestinians rejected peace. Are we going to see this story corrected? The “Palestine

JERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel’s Public Commission for Examining the Naval Incident of 31 May 2010, otherwise known as the Turkel Commission, has published the first part of its report on the May 2010 flotilla raid. It found that the actions of the IDF soldiers were “lawful and pursuant to the rules of international law,” although it alluded

JERUSALEM (WJC)–During the 2008 peace talks with the Olmert government, Palestinian negotiators were willing to leave most parts of eastern Jerusalem to Israeli control under a final peace deal, according to secret Palestinian documents leaked to the Arab TV channel ‘al-Jazeera’. Minutes detailing the concessions offered came from a meeting in Jerusalem in June 2008

  MKs Spraying Air Fresheners in the Knesset JERUSALEM–After Ehud Bark formed his new Independence party, Knesset members ratified those who bolted the Labor party with him as members of the government.  Just before Orit Noked was sworn in last Wednesday as agriculture minister, members of the opposition Kadima party pulled out air freshener cans