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…

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.…