Palestinian Authority setting up teams to battle Israel in every conceivable international forum, Israeli TV report says. The Palestinian leadership has reportedly decided to reject Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian peace…
PGGM cites policy of ‘social responsibility’ in decision to divest millions of euros from Israeli banks that have West Bank branches and offer financing for settlement construction. The Netherlands’ largest pension fund management company has…
OECD to examine the controversial firm’s alleged supply of surveillance kit. G4S, the security company which has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past two years, is facing an investigation by international authorities into…
Israel’s lead peace negotiator tells business conference in Tel Aviv that continued conflict harms economy. ith her most intense and confrontational style of delivery, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Monday said that “the settlements are…
The question to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was appropriate in time and place. At a news conference in Johannesburg where he was attending Nelson Mandela’s funeral, Abbas was asked about his position regarding the…
Palestinian team had stepped down in protest over proposed Israeli construction in the West Bank Israel’s chief negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians on Thursday criticized the resignation of Palestinian negotiators that had been…
Israel’s “escalation of settlement-building” blamed for resignations, which President Abbas has yet to accept. The entire Palestinian negotiating team has resigned due to what they say is continued Israeli settlement building and frustrations over the…
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s top national security aide on Thursday blamed Israeli settlement expansion announcements for some of the latest tensions between Israel and the Palestinians as U.S.-brokered peace talks between…
Swiss scientists find levels of polonium 18 times higher than normal in first forensic tests on former Palestinian leader’s body. The first forensic tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat‘s corpse have shown unexpectedly high…
Decision to build border fence coincides with approval of construction of almost 2,000 settler homes in occupied areas. Israeli government has decided to build a security fence on the the border with Jordan, a report…
A viable peace process does not require either party to embrace or even recognize the legitimacy of the other’s narrative. It requires that both have an informed and non-reductionist understanding of what this narrative consists…