Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Obama administration just two weeks after elected to Knesset that he supported the idea of a land exchange and had no desire to govern Palestinian territories, according to a diplomatic cable released by the...

Israel had tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead with Egypt and Fatah, offering to allow its neighbor and the Palestinian faction to take control of Gaza after an Israeli defeat of Hamas, according to U.S. State Department documents released last...

Washington (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday in New York, a day after she said the United States is “deeply disappointed” with Israel’s...

If, in Israel, no great suspense adheres to the question of what will come of the newest round of direct peace talks - “not much” is the consensus - real mystery surrounds the stocky, golden-tongued gentleman on President Obama’s right...

One of the owners of the Libyan vessel Almathea headed towards Gaza said on Tuesday that if Israel will only allow the ship to dock in Ashdod instead of reaching Gaza, the crew will instead unload the humanitarian goods in the Egyptian port of...

A retired Lebanese police officer was sentenced to death Thursday for working with Israeli intelligence on a 2006 car bombing that killed two members of a Palestinian terror group. Mahmoud Rafeh, who is in his 60s, showed no reaction as a judge read...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to arrive in Damascus on December 22, and according to the Egyptian report, while there he will present Syrian President Bashar Assad with a change in the Israeli position and a recent willingness...

Iran’s supreme leader says there was “definitive victory” and no rigging in the disputed presidential elections that set off days of unprecedented protests. Iran’s supreme leader said today that the country’s disputed...

Binyamin Netanyahu “does not believe in the adage ‘two states for two peoples’,” Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud) said during a tour of the West Bank Thursday. Rivlin said Israel’s wider conflict with the Arab world...

Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this...