The struggle for Jerusalem is being fought on many fronts. Palestinians are feverishly intent upon establishing an official presence in East Jerusalem that Israel will…

What is Israel’s vision of the “final status” of the West Bank and Gaza Strip? Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, under the direction of Yossi Beilin,…

The Rabin government’s construction plans for West Bank and Jerusalem settlements rival and in some respects surpass the settlement construction efforts of the Shamir government…

In mid-1994, on the eve of negotiations for the transfer of certain powers to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the “early empowerment” talks, it was reported…

U.S. opposition to settlement construction has undergone a substantial, continuous erosion in the period since the election of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in July 1992.…

A little more than one year ago, while secret talks were going on between Israel and the PLO, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that an…

Israelis are now engaged in one of the most difficult, and potentially revolutionary, debates in the country’s 46-year history. The Oslo accords, the February massacre…

The massacre by an Israeli settler of nearly 40 Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Hebron in the early morning hours of February…

The rampage by a settler at Hebron’s Ibrahami Mosque on February 25 has forced the settlement issue into the center of Israeli life and has…