Israeli–Palestinian conflict

No more secret Israeli-Palestinian meetings: Time for peace efforts in broad daylight - opinion

The road to that peace must be paved by Israelis and Palestinians who are courageous enough to stand up together.

|ByGERSHON BASKIN
THEN-PRIME minister Ehud Barak (R) jokingly pushes Palestinian president Yasser Arafat (L) into the Laurel cabin on the grounds of Camp David during peace talks in 2000.
SHLOMI DAMRI: Face to face with war.

Shlomi's war: An IDF reservist's journey from October 7 to political activism

A reservist’s remarkable journey from the Oct. 7 chaos, losing his brother, and fighting for over a year in Gaza – to political activism in order to change the country’s priorities.

|ByJONATHAN SPYER
A sign that reads "Entering the area is prohibited!" is hung on fencing at the Jerusalem headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in east Jerusalem, January 20, 2026

Israel demolishes UNRWA's Jerusalem HQ, but fails to explain why it had to go - comment

Without context, the move to demolish UNRWA’s east Jerusalem headquarters looks like just another incident of Israeli hard-heartedness - an attack on a UN body that wants only to help.

|ByHERB KEINON
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.

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.

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER

For the first time, Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israel, poll finds

Sympathy for Israelis among Republicans remains strong, with 78% sympathizing more with the Israelis and 11% sympathizing more with Palestinians.

MARCH 17, 2023ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
The flags of Israel and the US

Concept of Palestinian state is employed for sole purpose of destroying Israel - opinion

The "Palestine liberation" movement is not a revolution.

MARCH 5, 2023ByDAVID S. LEVINE
THEN-PLO chairman Yasser Arafat extends his hand to then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin after they signed the Declaration of Principles at the White House, September 1993. The next year, Arafat reportedly delivered a speech, calling for a ‘jihad.’

Benjamin Netanyahu has to go, and only the Likud can save us - opinion

Looking at the situation in Israel right now, I have to conclude that unfortunately, Netanyahu has empowered and unleashed this existential crisis and chaos.

MARCH 5, 2023BySOLLY KAPLINSKI
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's office Jerusalem, February 19, 2023.

When is journalism antisemitic?

Prof. Richard Landes diagnoses disturbing trends in the way many media outlets cover Israel

MARCH 3, 2023ByNEVILLE TELLER
MOURNING BEFORE a burial in 2000 in the West Bank Kalandiya refugee camp, in front of a picture of the shooting of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durra.

Turning off the bypass road of Israel education - opinion

The bypass road avoids areas deemed to be troublesome, problematic, or unsafe in the West Bank.

FEBRUARY 26, 2023BySTEVEN GREEN
DREAM OF Others Seminar visits the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem.

Why is east Jerusalem burning with violence, incitement?

Is east Jerusalem on the verge of another conflagration? Are we reaching another period of clashes and terror attacks carried out by the city's Arab residents?

FEBRUARY 25, 2023ByPEGGY CIDOR
SMOKE RISES from the Shuafat refugee camp on Sunday.

US says only Israelis, Palestinians can ease tensions after Nablus raid

Price said that while the US' immediate goal is not to bring the parties together to negotiate a solution, it aims to support them as they work to deescalate tensions.

FEBRUARY 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US State Department spokesman Ned Price holds a press briefing on Afghanistan at the State Department in Washington, U.S., August 16, 2021.

Settlement legalization inconsistent with Israeli democracy, US says

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that the Biden administration had clarified its opposition to settlement activity.

FEBRUARY 14, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price speaks during a news conference in Washington, US, March 10, 2022.

Israelis and Palestinians overestimate each other's desire to fight

A joint poll conducted by Israeli and Palestinian organizations found that both Israelis and Palestinians overestimate the other's desire to kill them.

FEBRUARY 6, 2023BySAM HALPERN
Israel Palestine binational one-state button

From legal occupation to annexation, and how it’s viewed internationally - opinion

Since 1967, there has been a situation known internationally as temporary occupation, with legal recognition of the temporary legitimacy of the Israeli presence in the territories.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023ByDANIEL CARMON
FOREIGN MINISTRY Director-General Alon Ushpiz (right) sits alongside Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem when Cohen was welcomed as the new minister.