PA says negotiations will ‘waste time’ unless accompanied by settlement freeze The Palestinians have spurned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest invitation to resume peace talks, insisting Israel freeze settlement construction first. Netanyahu on Wednesday proposed to start direct talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, without any preconditions. The call followed Continue Reading »

The “Quartet” of Mideast peacemakers appealed Wednesday for Israel and the Palestinians to take confidence-building steps to improve the atmosphere for negotiations, as top Israeli and Palestinian officials prepared to meet for the first time 18 months. Meeting in Washington on Wednesday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Secretary of State Continue Reading »

Since the last preliminary peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed for lack of progress two months ago, a different issue — whether or not to strike Iran — has dominated the domestic headlines. Given that President Barack Obama is increasingly preoccupied with his re-election campaign and sees little Continue Reading »

‘If anyone from the council calls us, we just won’t answer the phone,’ says senior official, following UNHRC’s planned settlement probe Israel is cutting off all relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Foreign Ministry announced on Monday. The move comes as a response to the council’s decision Continue Reading »

Foreign minister cites UNHRC’s hypocrisy after announcement of fact-finding mission to the West Bank Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reacted Friday to an announcement by the UN Human Rights Council of a fact-finding mission to the West Bank by calling the organization “ridiculous” and “irrelevant,” according to Voice of Israel Radio. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu condemns killing of Livnat by PA policeman; Barak says lack of security coordination cannot justify shooting at innocent people. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday condemned the killing of Ben Yosef Livnat earlier in the day at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus, and demanded that the Palestinian Authority “take serious Continue Reading »

Full Transcript – Piers Morgan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu PIERS MORGAN, CNN ANCHOR, PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT: Prime Minister Netanyahu, first of all thank you very for inviting me to your residence. I want to start with the appalling events in Japan and get you take on what’s happened Continue Reading »

This video is from the World Economic Forum in 2009. Watch the video here. Continue Reading »

Ahmet Davutoglu published message on Foreign Ministry’s website saying the murder ‘is a crime that violates most basic of rights, the right to life.’ In an unprecedented move, Turkey’s foreign minister published a message on the ministry’s website on Tuesday denouncing the brutal murder of a family in the settlement Continue Reading »

Michael Coren speaks with: Rebecca Cherniak, Ishmael Khaldi, Elias Hazineh, Mohamed El Rashidy about the conflict in the Middle East. Watch the program here. Continue Reading »