Israeli-Palestinian relations

Only Jewish-Arab cooperation, peace with Palestinians will let Israel be a democracy - opinion

The key to victory is through Jewish-Arab political cooperation.

|ByGERSHON BASKIN
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on November 24, 2025.
The scene after a suicide attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya during a Passover Seder in 2002, in which 30 civilians were killed: Oslo optimism felt like a dangerous delusion, says the writer.

Oslo’s legacy and the growing gap between Israel, Diaspora - opinion

Many American Jews, remain frozen in the amber of 1990s Oslo optimism. Living far from the bombs, insulated by distance and liberal universalism.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
Former US Secretary of State and Augusta National member Condoleezza Rice looks on during the during the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, US, April 3, 2022.

'Change what you teach your kids,' Condoleezza Rice advises Palestinians looking for a state

“Don’t create another generation of Palestinians who believe that somehow the resistance is the way to peace and security,” Rice said.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ACTOR Mandy Patinkin sent out a rewriting of the ‘Al Het’ prayer: ‘Not in our name – bombing and destroying entire cities. Not in our name – continued and eternal occupation. Not in our name – the shredding of Israeli democracy.’

Anti-Zionism’s chutzpah: An insult to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's legacy - opinion

Chutzpah is the sanctified brazenness that anti-Zionists and the opponents of Israel have cloaked themselves with.

|ByYISRAEL MEDAD

Grapevine October 20, 2024: Hope and memory

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 20, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Together with a scribe, President Isaac Herzog writes a letter in a new Torah scroll.

Addressing anti-Israel sentiment through educational reform - opinion

The threat from faculty and curriculum.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024ByYISRAEL MEDAD
A protest encampment is set up in support of Palestinians, at the University of California, Berkeley, in April. The problem with the eruption of the anti-Israel protests has been the involvement of many faculty members in reframing the notion of Palestine, the writer argues.

We must confront forces of destruction with all our power - opinion

In a reflection on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the writer delves into the numerous peace initiatives that have been proposed and consistently rejected by Arab and Palestinian leaders.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024ByMOHAMED SAAD KHIRALLA
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

The Gaza pier shows America's approach to the war is tone-deaf - opinion

Successful mediation of an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will require the US to construct a strategy around the values of the people involved, not their own.

JULY 14, 2024ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
A TRUCK carries humanitarian aid across the floating pier constructed to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, last month.

It’s time to reassess Europe’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

The EU needs a balanced, updated strategy that considers both sides. It must clearly oppose all forms of hatred and violence, especially from those calling for Israel’s destruction.

JULY 6, 2024ByURI HALPERIN
OUTGOING EUROPEAN UNION foreign policy chief Josep Borrell attends an EU meeting in Brussels, earlier this year. An unbalanced EU policy undermines its potential to positively influence the situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says the writer.

How can we shape the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations? - opinion

Following the harrowing events that unfolded on October 7, Israel needs to find a way to look forward in order to the future challenges the conflict will present.

JUNE 25, 2024ByYOHANAN TZOREFF
Yohanan Tzoreff: Israel has the opportunity to determine the what hte future of the conflict would look like.

'Jews aren't the devil you make us out to be' - opinion

Israel was founded on values adored by today’s progressives (anti-colonialism, socialism, collectivism, communion with the land) by the most peripatetic and outcast of people (the “wandering Jews”).

JUNE 16, 2024ByMICHAEL CORWIN
A PROTESTER accuses Israel of war crimes, outside the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, last month. To accuse Israelis of following in the footsteps of the Nazis demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the history of the Jewish people, the writer argues.

'I have friends in Palestine': The tragic irony of a peace activist held by Hamas - comment

Her dramatic and heart wrenching words, "I have friends in Palestine," should be a wake-up call: Hamas, as well as a majority of Palestinians, will never acknowledge Israel.

MAY 22, 2024ByZVIKA KLEIN
Screenshot of video provided by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum of observers getting kidnapped to Gaza, May 22, 2024.

Biden: 'Working to make sure we finally get a two-state solution' as Sullivan visits Israel

US President Joe Biden, while speaking at a commencement address, stressed that he is working not only for a ceasefire but to build sustainable peace in the region.

MAY 19, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses Morehouse College graduates during a commencement ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 19, 2024.

With fate of Raisi known, his denial and hatred for Jews and Israel takes the spotlight

The Iranian president's rhetoric has revisited not only historical controversies but also heightened current geopolitical tensions.

MAY 19, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sudan - Raisi passes by a ship