Israeli Palestinian Peace Process

Jordanian-Palestinian confederation: A new potential path to peace - opinion

A Jordanian-Palestinian confederation is the heart of the proposed paradigm.

|ByCHUCK FREILICH
UK PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron await the arrival of PA head Mahmoud Abbas at the Sharm el-Sheikh international summit on Gaza last month. The classic two-state solution is no longer viable, the writer maintains.
MAHANEH YEHUDA last month: I dream of visiting the stalls of the shuk in Tehran instead of Iran firing missiles at the shuk in Jerusalem, says the writer.

If Palestinians could give up their lust for terror, Israel could know peace - opinion

It thrives on challenges and shows a resilience not seen throughout the world. These traits will carry the Jewish people through any difficulty they face.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes PA President Mahmoud Abbas to the Kremlin in Moscow during the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, on May 10, 2025

Israel needs a miracle or a change of heart by Netanyahu - opinion

Very little if anything has been done by Israel over the last year and a half to start preparing an effective alternative to Hamas in Gaza. Netanyahu does not want Mahmoud Abbas' PA involved.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton watches prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing the Oslo I Accord, at the White House in Washington on September 13, 1993.

On This Day: Israel, Palestinians sign Oslo I Accord 30 years ago

The signing of the Oslo Accords was a historic moment that is seen by many as the closest to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but is ultimately remembered as a failure.

|ByAARON REICH

Jason Greenblatt isn’t sure Israelis, Palestinians ready for peace

Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former Middle East negotiator, made his first public speech since leaving the White House on Sunday night.

JANUARY 14, 2020ByJOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA
Jason Greenblatt speaking at the Northern New Jersey Holocaust Memorial & Education Center, Jan. 14, 2020

Know Comment: Truth-telling to advance peace

By changing the discourse about settlements, the Trump administration is laying the groundwork for realistic negotiation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
‘BOTH ISRAEL and Palestine are guilty of the crime of omission. We teach almost nothing about the other people living on this land.’

Encountering Peace: Israel’s most crucial elections

AUGUST 15, 2019ByGERSHON BASKIN
Slain Israeli Prime Minister Rabin with former US President Bill Clinton and former PLO President Yasser Arafat after signing the Oslo Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

Jason Greenblatt: Israeli-Palestinian peace is major threat to Iran

US envoy for peace and special representative for Iran want to encourage everyone to root for the Trump peace plan and unite against Iran's "illicit business and terror activities."

AUGUST 1, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy.

Know Comment: Redrawing borders creatively

At the core of the Trump peace initiative is creative chaos, replacing hoary assumptions with new bridges and highways

JUNE 27, 2019ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) embraces Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem May 23, 2017

Palestinian media condemns Bahrain invite of Israeli journalists

A “blow to the Palestinian people and their national rights.”

JUNE 23, 2019ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags during a protest marking the 71st anniversary of the 'Nakba', or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced from their homes in the war surrounding Israel's independence in 1948, near the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip May 1

Nasrallah slams U.S. peace plan, calls for unified resistance

Al-Mayadeen: Hezbollah claims US wants to settle Palestinians in Lebanon

MAY 25, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech

Palestinian activists don’t understand why they can’t enter the U.S.

Hanan Ashrawi is the most recent and most prominent of at least three Palestinian activists to be barred from entering the United States this year.

MAY 16, 2019ByBEN SALES/JTA
PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi

Kushner: UNRWA 'corrupt' and doesn't help peace

"Sometimes you have to strategically risk breaking things in order to get there," wrote Kushner in a confidential email regarding the UN Relief and Work Agency.

APRIL 20, 2019ByZACK EVANS
White House adviser Jared Kushner at the "2019 Prison Reform Summit" in the East Room of the White House in Washington

Special Envoy Greenblatt keeps challenging Palestinian leadership

The confrontation comes amid intense speculation regarding the nature of President Trump's upcoming peace plan.

APRIL 19, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy.