David Ignatius

The precedents are fresh and obvious. Yet the US government seems intent on ignoring them. In Iran in 1979, leftist and other secular forces,…

This article was published in The Jerusalem Report on May 2, 2010. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report, click here. The tension between Israel and…

WASHINGTON – One week after Middle East policy circles here began buzzing about the possibility that the United States would present its own peace…

The Obama administration’s attempt to spur serious Israeli-Palestinian negotiations by hinting it may introduce its own peace plan if the parties…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu deflected criticism Wednesday that his policies had led to Israel’s international isolation, saying Israel was…

NEW YORK - Inside a glittering New York City ballroom on Wednesday night, several hundred people turned out to support the construction of Jewish…

If, to paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, diplomacy is war by other means, then just as armies are called upon to concentrate their efforts and…

MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) lashed out Monday against the US demand for a settlement freeze, labeling it "extortion" and warning it could set back…

The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, will be in Washington this week to reassure President Barack Obama that, contrary to appearances, his…

Compare and contrast the following three events: At the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, George Schulte,…

Despite his public spat with Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the World Economic Forum over the Gaza fighting, President Shimon Peres said Friday that his…

During an off-the-record meeting in Washington, DC on November 10, one of Obama's senior foreign policy advisers stated that pushing a two-state…

US President-elect Barack Obama has properly sought to maintain a low profile in foreign affairs in this transition period ahead of his January…

Syria's rush to take advantage of the conflict in Georgia and the Russia-US rift to cozy up to Moscow seems to indicate that it is not interested in…

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is the darling of Bush administration foes. Gushing about Gates in a recent column, Washington Post writer David…

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that the US has made it clear it was opposed at the present time to military action against Teheran, but…

Israel and Syria are expected to hold a fourth round of indirect diplomatic talks in Turkey next week, amid reports that the two sides are dealing…

Last Monday, gunmen associated with Hamas shot and wounded an Israeli electrician who was doing his job on the Israeli side of the Gaza…

The international diplomatic boycott of the Hamas-led Palestinian unity government is leaking, but at its most official level, the Quartet, it is…

The Prime Minister's Office remained unimpressed Saturday night by even more Syrian negotiation overtures, saying that what is still needed from…