No one knows for sure whether or when an agreement will be signed on the long-delayed first and second redeployment of Israeli military forces in…

Further details of the large-scale expansion of settlements in the West Bank, beginning in the last half of 1997, illuminate the Netanyahu government’s growing appreciation…

Four years ago, Baruch Goldstein changed forever the complexion of relations between Israelis and Palestinians. The Israeli investigation of the circumstances of his mass murder…

Israeli policy shaping “final-status” issues since the advent of the Netanyahu government in mid-1996 has changed markedly. Whereas previous Israeli governments refused as a matter…

The September visit of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the Middle East reinvigorated efforts to formally resume Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and offered the Clinton…

The formal framework of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, set out in the Oslo I, Oslo II, and Hebron agreements, has been in crisis since Israel’s decision in…

The streets of East Jerusalem’s commercial center begin to empty in mid-afternoon, as the workday ends and people return to their homes. By evening, when…

The Clinton administration is faced with an ongoing crisis in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). This crisis has less to do with…

One of the issues at the top of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s agenda during his February visit to Washington was the extent of Israel’s…