“Critics of Trump’s declaration warned that it will put an end to what prospect there may still have been for a resumption of the peace process. Apparently word that the peace process is dead and buried never reached them,” writes Henry Siegman.

“Palestinians will suffer the most from the cuts to UNRWA, but the whole region will feel the consequences,” writes Sara Roy.

“When Pence says: ‘We stand with Israel. Your cause is our cause, your fight is our fight’, it’s clear America is only interested in offering Israel blind political support and abandoning the Palestinians. Real peace must now mean circumventing the U.S. administration,” writes Sam Bahour.

It’s hard not to see Pence’s belief as an impetus driving Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem, said Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli expert on Jerusalem who advocates for including all the city’s sects and groupings in considering its permanent status.

A diplomatic adviser to Abbas says that the Security Council powers or Quartet, both of which include Washington, could form a basis to revitalize the peace process.

The New Yorker interviews Palestinian ambassador to the US Husam Zomlot.

Israel’s security forces tried for decades to kill the P.L.O. leader. Now, former officials tell the story of how they failed — and how far they almost went to succeed.

Confrontations between young Palestinians and Israeli soldiers have taken on a life of their own since Palestinian leaders called for protests against Donald Trump’s decision to treat Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Israeli inspectors have summoned a Palestinian farmer for questioning after he put up two scarecrows and built a rain shelter on his village’s agricultural lands south of Jerusalem.

“From the time he took over the leadership of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), it was obvious that Mahmoud Abbas was going to have a difficult road ahead of him,” writes Mitchell Plitnick. “The deck may have been stacked against him, but even within that context, he has performed poorly.”

The 40-mile-long wall will run the entire length of Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip to counter tunnels that Palestinian militants have dug into Israeli territory.

At the end of a Facebook video encouraging sportsmanlike conduct by fans from one of Israel’s most notoriously racist soccer clubs, those surrounding Miri Regev break out into chants of ‘burn your village,’ directed at the opposing team — from an Arab city in Israel.

Israeli universities have long been viewed as a bulwark against extremism. A new database, compiled by a group of Israeli dissident academics, reveals how the academy works in concert with the state.

Israel accused the United Nations on Tuesday of continuous discrimination against it over its treatment of Palestinians, and called for reforms of the U.N. human rights body.