Quartet

Nigun Quartet: Reviving the soul of jazz with hassidic melodies

Experience the Nigun Quartet's unique blend of jazz and Hassidic melodies at HaEzor, Tel Aviv, on August 21.

 THE NIGUN Quartet – jazz and hassidut.
 THE GOLDEN GATE QUARTET fabled American singing group marks its 90th anniversary next year

Prepare to tap, clap and groove: Golden Gate Quartet returns to Israel

 US State Department spokesman Ned Price holds a press briefing on Afghanistan at the State Department in Washington, U.S., August 16, 2021.

Middle East Quartet no longer relevant to Israel-Palestinian conflict - editorial

 US State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks during daily press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, US, February 22, 2021

Is the US leaving the Quartet on the Middle East?


Report: UAE made payments to former UK PM Tony Blair as Quartet envoy

Allegations of a conflict of interest between Blair’s role as Quartet envoy and the business interests of his private consultancy firm have dogged him intermittently over the last number of years.

Tony Blair

UN Security Council to hold special meeting following Jerusalem violence

The Mideast Quartet envoys also condemned the attack.

A United Nations Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York.

It is time to break up the Quartet

For different reasons, each of the four Quartet members is unqualified to negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian agreement.

Delegates sit for a Security Council meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York

Quartet calls Israel out for ongoing settlement activity

“The real settlements Palestinians are after are Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv,” Netanyahu declared.

A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli border policeman during a protest against Jewish settlements in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh

Notes on the Quartet report

The Quartet Report of July 2016 is very different and much more modest than the Roadmap published by the Quartet in 2003.

The Jewish neighborhood of Neveh Ya’acov with the settlement of Psagot in the background

Right from Wrong: Abbas’ Muslim holiday attack on the Quartet

Abbas not only welcomed each and every one of the bloodthirsty stabbing, car-ramming, firebomb-hurling assaults on innocent Israelis; he encouraged and rewarded them.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets Israeli delegation in Ramallah, May 17, 2016

Moving Beyond The Quartet

The Jerusalem Post

PA said to boycott Quartet following its report on Mideast peace

Senior PA official told al-Hayat newspaper: "the US is dominating the Quartet and that the recent report has American fingerprints all over it."

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses UN General Assembly

Quartet report blames Palestinians, Israel equally for impasse

The report said that “reuniting the Palestinians under a single, democratic and legitimate Palestinian authority on the basis of the PLO platform and Quartet principles remains a priority.

The Quartet can play a key role in talks on the future of Gaza in the framework of a full-scale Israeli-Palestinian peace.

'Quartet' draft report: Israeli settlements eroding viability of 2 state solution

The draft report said that at least 570,000 Israelis are living in settlements. The United Nations and most countries consider the settlements illegal.

The Jewish neighborhood of Neveh Ya’acov with the settlement of Psagot in the background