Israel peace deal

Turks on the border: Erdogan gains foothold in Gaza under ceasefire plan's Phase II

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already claimed his first prize and already has a foothold in Gaza

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan poses with the signed agreement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.
Palestinian-American businessman Bishara Bahbah, who helped secure the release of former hostage Edan Alexander.

What the Hamas-US backchannel tells us about Gaza’s transition - analysis

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrive before President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are slated to speak at the White House in September 2025.

Trump envoys Witkoff, Kushner describe Doha strike fallout, hostage deal

 A FREED Palestinian prisoner holds a weapon as he is carried after his release by Israel as part of the hostage deal, in Khan Yunis, last Saturday. We face vile murderers who scorn human life, individuals who planned attacks and killed dozens, including infants, families, young men, and women, the

Israel set to release terrorist behind Ramallah lynching of two reservists, murder of teen - report


Beautiful people

Many walk the avenues of their Holy Land carrying a pain that will not subside.

Efrat settlement, West Bank

Former Mideast peace negotiators slam past failures

Beilin: PM may still withdraw from parts of West Bank; Arens: Negotiation advocates in fantasy land.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) shakes hands with former justice minister Yossi Beilin

Palestinian, Israeli protesters: ‘The last day of the occupation is the first day of peace'

Some of the activists waved large Palestinian flags that fluttered next to the passing cars and others had held olive branches.

Israelis and Palestinian rally for peace along Route 60 in the West Bank on Friday

For Zion's Sake: Let the two-state solution stay dead

Like the UN partition resolution of 1947, a two-state solution is unimplementable due to Arab hostility to Israel.

A PALESTINIAN woman holds up a knife in the Gaza Strip.

Italian FM: Peace deal could send signal of stability to Middle East

The foreign minister, on his first visit to Israel, said that European efforts should be “concentrated on the possible contribution to restart the process."

Italian FM Paolo Gentiloni

You can’t win a PR war by fighting on the enemy’s side

Israel needs to stop arguing the Palestinians' case and start arguing its own.

Herzog meets with Abbas in Ramallah

Settler housing starts up by 124% in 2013

Number of finished housing units in West Bank rose 7.4%; report comes as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is set to meet with Obama over peace process, settlements.

 West Bank settlement city of Ariel