Israel palestine negotiations

When Allah sits at the negotiation table: How to negotiate with Hamas - opinion

When Allah sits at the negotiation table, the cards matter, but interpretation matters more. In faith shaped talks, Western negotiators cannot ignore the religious logic guiding the other side.

Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya sits at a mourning house for assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, August 2, 2024.
Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, build a sukkah outside the PM's residence in Jerusalem, with photographs of the hostages, on October 05, 2025.

Israel prepares for ceasefire agreement to be reached by Thursday, official says

Hamas official Taher al-Nunu in Gaza City in 2009.

Hamas says hostages, prisoner lists exchanged in latest ceasefire negotiations

 Hostage families and supporters rally, calling for the return of the remaining 50 hostages in Hamas captivity, June 28, 2025.

Mossad Chief Barnea meets Qatari PM in Doha, confirms partial hostage deal is 'off the table'


State wants to issue Sussiya opinion only after US elections

The state initially asked for a two-day delay. Then on Thursday it stated that it wanted to wait three months.

Sussiya

Two kinds of peace

Daily interactions are not only inevitable, but potentially rewarding and mutually beneficial. If Palestinians and Israelis can do business together and interact on a daily basis.

JEWISH AND ARAB Israelis wait outside a distribution center to trade in their First Gulf Warera protective gas-mask kits for newer models in 2012.

Abbas calls on UN Security Council to reject Quartet report

Palestinian official says Quartet is useless and should dissolve itself.

Mahmoud Abbas

Worthless guarantees

Israel cannot allow itself to be stampeded into a peace agreement that isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

UNIFIL Force Commander Major General Graziano sits aboard the French flagship FS De Grasse during a change of command ceremony in 2009

Russian FM: Netanyahu didn't push for a revised Saudi Initiative in Putin talks

PM’s office says the issue of the Arab Peace Initiative was not raised during his talks with the Russian president .

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) shows the way to his PA counterpart Riyad al-Maliki during a meeting in Moscow, Russia June 8, 2016.

Erekat calls French peace talks 'a step in the right direction'

A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may soon be impossible, France warned on Friday as it held the international conference.

Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Arab League supportive of French peace initiative

Arab foreign ministers welcomed the French initiative and France's attempt to encourage both Israeli and Palestinian factions to the negotiations table.

Arab leaders meet at an Arab League meeting

‘Sykes-Picot’ and Israel

The status of Palestine was to be determined at a later stage, with the Zionist factor specifically to be taken into consideration.

PEOPLE HOLD up peace signs. But who wants peace more – Israel or the Palestinians?

Into The Fray: A very simple conflict

The intractability of the 100-year dispute between Jew and Arab over the Land of Israel is rooted not in its complexity, but its brutal simplicity.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signs the Paris Agreement on climate change at UN headquarters in New York

MK Bar to present peace plan in European Parliament

According to Bar, in recent weeks, European parliamentarians have taken an interest in his plan and its idea of creating two states before a final agreement is struck.

Hilik Bar