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…

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…