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Forty-seven Democrats sign letter calling for US to recognize a Palestinian state

Rep. Ro Khanna led 47 Democrats in pressing Trump and Rubio to back Palestinian statehood, while others proposed an Arab League-led deal.

U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) walks ahead of a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on a stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown that would otherwise begin October 1, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. U.S., September 19, 2025.
President of the anti-Houthi Southern Transitional Council Aidaros al-Zubaidi speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, September 24, 2025.

South Yemen would join Abraham Accords, says separatist leader Aidaros al-Zubaidi

France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he attends a joint statement with Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Moldovan President Maia Sandu, and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz afte a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Chisinau, Moldova, August 27, 2025

Macron says Trump should stop Gaza war if he wants Nobel peace prize

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025.

Erdogan urges Palestinian recognition, UK says it won’t create Palestinian state overnight


Encountering Peace: Two nation-states, two national minorities

I propose, therefore, that the future peace agreement ensure two nation states with two national minorities.

PM Netanyahu and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas in Washington, 2010

Belief in Palestinian openness to two-state solution amounts to insanity

rather than look at the historical record of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and draw the self-evident conclusions, Uri Avnery retreats into the counterfactual fantasyland.

PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS burn American and Israeli flags on the top of a symbolic coffin with the words ‘Oslo accords’ written on it in September 1993. (Reuters)

PA envoy: Even without a peace deal, Palestinians will proceed 'as a state'

PLO Ambassador to the UN states that the Palestinians are actively joining world bodies as a state and plan to carry down that diplomatic path despite the stagnant peace talks.

PLO envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour.

Public opinion poll: ‘No Palestinian state in five years’

Researchers spoke face-to-face with 1,200 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and held telephone conversations with 900 Israelis, including settlers and Israeli-Arab citizens.

A Palestinian man smokes a cigarette beside Israeli soldiers after minor clashes with Palestinian stone-throwers in the West Bank city of Hebron February 23, 2010

How can we broker a deal when we don’t understand one of the parties?

While many Israelis may not love the Palestinians, a vast majority want peace with them and wish them a good life; the same cannot be said coming in the other direction.

Abbas, Trump, Netanyahu

US Ambassador to Israel Friedman meets 'worse than Kapos' J Street

New beginning suspected after private meeting held between two previously antagonistic sides.

David Friedman arrives at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination of to be US ambassador to Israel

Knesset Members answer: What did you think of Trump's visit?

Were expectations too high or too low?

US President Donald Trump (C) speaks during a welcoming ceremony upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod near Tel Aviv, Israel May 22, 2017

Deputy foreign minister to Trump: Don’t divide Jerusalem

Hotovely was accompanied by 50 international students and the three Israeli paratroopers who were captured in an iconic photo during the Six Day War.

DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER Tzipi Hotovely (standing behind left corner of flag) and the three paratroopers from David Rubinger’s iconic 1967 photo (in white shirts) pose with international students at the Western Wall May 11, 2017

Trump envoy: Jordan has important role to play in regional peace efforts

US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason D. Greenblatt is visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories this week.

Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt meets Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 15, 2017.

A two-state solution: The only pragmatic path forward

Israel must remain Jewish and democratic but Israel must also remain moral.

Palestinian protesters wave Palestinian flags as Israelis carrying Israeli flags walk past in front of the Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City