Arab Israeli conflict

Most Israelis say social division bigger threat to country than Iranian nuclear threat - poll

While 59% of Jewish respondents viewed polarization as the greatest threat, only 39% of Arab participants said the same, possibly due to higher Arab sympathy with Palestinians.

 Israelis clash with police during a protest against the decision of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire head of Shin Bat Ronen Bar, in Jerusalem, March 20, 2025.
A woman holds a placard during a protest called by Sudanese community in Athens, to condemn the civilian killings in Sudan's al-Fashir and to draw attention to the ongoing conflict, in Athens, Greece, November 7, 2025.

There are no mass protests for Sudan because it can't be used against US or Israel - analysis

Portrait of Yitzhak Rabin

Defense Ministry reveals rare recordings of Yitzhak Rabin 30 years after his death

A Jordanian flag flies over the capital city, Amman, Jordan August 17, 2025.

Justifying Oct. 7: Jordan's curriculum full of antisemitic, anti-Israel content, passages


The extremes of the Arab world’s approach to Israel

REGIONAL AFFAIRS: Journalist Ohad Hemo describes covering the World Cup in Qatar and his adventures with Iranians and Palestinians.

 OHAD HEMO: Diplomatic decisions made at the top don’t necessarily trickle down to the people.

US must push to defund the UN's COI against Israel - 49 Congress members

Last year the US and Israel tried and failed to defund the COI, although they were able to reduce its budget by close to 25%.

 US AMBASSADOR to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a meeting last week of the General Assembly on the situation between Russia and Ukraine.

Palestinian reconciliation in Algiers reflects skepticism, but early to dismiss outright - opinion

One of the biggest obstacles that can torpedo reconciliation is the position of the international community regarding any alliances with the Islamic Hamas movement.

View of Algiers, Algeria

The Palestinian leaders are promoting murder and nobody cares - opinion

People have had enough of the UNHRC ignoring human rights abuses worldwide or actively protecting dictatorships.

 PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN General Assembly last month. His government continues to financially reward convicted terrorists who are in Israeli prisons, thus providing an incentive to murder more Israelis, says the writer

Letters to the Editor October 18, 2022: Truly misguided

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Reuters retracts award for Palestinian over pro-Hitler, pro-terror comments

"The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund stand opposed to hate speech of any description," the foundation wrote in a statement.

 Thomson Reuters Building in Canary Wharf, London.

Israel to compensate family of Omar As'ad, who died after IDF detention

Omar As'ad had been detained by soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion at an impromptu checkpoint, and died of heart failure.

Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, 80, who was found dead after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid, in Jiljilya village on January 13, 2022.

5783 had a disappointing start, but hopeful for the rest of the year - opinion

Lapid is so consumed with his own importance that he has become over-confident, without the necessary competence.

 PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid briefs opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on security and diplomatic matters, in the presence of the prime minister’s military secretary, Avi Gil, in August. Netanyahu called Lapid’s UN speech, ‘full of weakness, defeat and surrender.’

The trauma of Israel's Yom Kippur War was fully justified

To what extent was Israel's Yom Kippur War trauma justified? Fully. How could it have happened – the blunders, the existential fear, the casualties? Could it happen again?

 THE PHOTOS chronicle the Yom Kippur War and its aftermath.

PA envoy: Israel has committed most terrible massacres since WWII

The Palestinian Authority's ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Khraishi, continues to argue for sanctions against Israel to be put in place.

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