Palestine

By advocating clean and courteous politics, a retired general is giving Netanyahu a run for his money.

The late Palestinian leader was legendary for forsaking promising opportunities, caving to extremists, and failing to appreciate the challenges of negotiating against a stronger opponent. Britain’s prime minister has perfected his diplomatic style.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has tried to keep the Islamist group in check, but the situation in Gaza is as unstable as ever.

A political alliance between Israel’s left wing and Arab parties could topple Benjamin Netanyahu.

The population the government refers to as "Arab-Israeli" is increasingly embracing the term "Palestinian."

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate is selling church land that’s ending up in the hands of Israeli settler groups. Its Palestinian Christian congregants are furious.

Funds to Palestinian security agencies that cooperate with Israel are also in jeopardy.

While the White House rubber-stamps Benjamin Netanyahu’s every move, the online rental company is cracking down on Israel’s illegal settlements.

Candidates who ran for local office were subjected to violent threats by fellow Palestinians, but they have vowed to do it again.

The complicated lives of Jews and Arabs who fall in love in Israel.

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have won, but the battle for a new brand of feminism in the Democratic Party and within Muslim communities has just begun.

Trump is pushing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict toward a one-state solution.

A new diplomatic history argues that the United States, Egypt, and Israel prevented a Palestinian state from emerging. But leaders such as Yasser Arafat bear much of the blame.

If the Trump administration seeks to strip Palestinian refugees of their status, it will destabilize one of America’s closest allies in the region.

Israeli influence over Palestinian finances has driven a wedge between PA leaders and their supporters.

Israeli-Palestinian peace is elusive because both sides—and the United States—have made a series of damaging but preventable errors.

The Trump administration’s policies don’t represent a radical shift. The White House has simply abandoned the facade of neutrality and rubber-stamped the Israeli government’s agenda.

On the 25th anniversary of the landmark Israeli-Palestinian deal, activists and diplomats should focus on recreating the conditions that made it possible.

Cuts could deepen economic crisis in the West Bank and Gaza and lead to violence.

The U.N. agency chief for Palestinian refugees warns funding cuts risk undermining Middle East stability.