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…

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…

Four years ago, Baruch Goldstein changed forever the complexion of relations between Israelis and Palestinians. The Israeli investigation of the circumstances of his mass murder…

Further details of the large-scale expansion of settlements in the West Bank, beginning in the last half of 1997, illuminate the Netanyahu government’s growing appreciation…

No one knows for sure whether or when an agreement will be signed on the long-delayed first and second redeployment of Israeli military forces in…

Israel and the Palestinian Authority have agreed in the Wye Memorandum to a revised timetable for the phased implementation of the first and second “further…

Israel’s first redeployment from Area C according to the Wye timetable fell .2 percent short of the agreed-upon amount. The shortfall may be rectified in…

A recent headline in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot said it all–“Non-Stop Building.” “What was done until now in secret,” the report continued, “has come…

The continuing expansion of settlements, facilitated by Oslo, is a reflection of Israel’s basic understanding of its continuing freedom of action during its diplomacy with…

Israel’s Uncertain Victory Settlement Report | Vol. 9 No. 7 | May 1999 Israel’s conquest of Jordan’s West Bank in June 1967 created the opportunity…