The Clinton administration is directing more critical public attention toward Israel’s settlement expansion policies than at any time since it came to power in 1992.

When assessing the colonization policies of Israel’s two main parties–Labor and Likud–it is instructive to recall a bit of Israeli folk wisdom. “A Likud government,”…

The settlement policies of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu remain a work in progress, three months after the defeat of the Labor government led by…

Nineteen years ago Menachem Begin defeated Shimon Peres, becoming Israel’s first Likud prime minister. One of Begin’s first official acts was to travel to Elon…

As Israel’s May 29 election approaches, Labor and Likud are each heading for the political center in search of the critical swing voter who holds…

Israel will hold national elections on May 29, 1996, to choose both a new prime minister and a 120-member Knesset. For the first time in…

In the short time since the Rabin assassination, the government of Shimon Peres has begun to establish policies toward settlers and settlements that distinguish it…

A couple of months before Prime Minister Rabin’s assassination, I was interviewing Dan Meridor, a former Likud minister of justice and one of the more…

Two striking aspects of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation stand out in the long-expected agreement on implementing the next stage of Israel’s redeployment in the West Bank: Not…