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Opinion: Could This Be the Map to Mideast Peace?

It's a cliche among foreign policy circles that everyone knows what an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will look like. Now a Washington think tank with close connections to officials in both Israel and the United States has sketched out realistic borders for a new Palestinian state. On Thursday, the Washington...

Key Issue in Mideast Talks: How Do You Define 'Settlement'?

WASHINGTON (Sept. 1) -- Neighborhoods. Colonies. Facts on the ground. Suburbs. Unauthorized outposts. Jerusalem. Whatever you call Jewish areas outside of Israel's 1967 border, the peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that opened today at the White House...

Israelis and Palestinians Agree: Talks Doomed to Fail

JERUSALEM (Aug. 25) -- The announcement that direct peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders will begin in Washington on Sept. 2 has produced a rare convergence of views between Israelis and Palestinians of all political hues: They agree the talks are doomed to fail. Nahum Barnea, veteran diplomatic commentator...

Palestinian Jobs in Settlements: Vital, Illegal

MODI'IN ILLIT, West Bank (June 23) -- Younnes Salah, a tall, broad-shouldered Palestinian father of five, spends his days building new homes for Jewish settlers in this ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlement. He says he'd rather be building homes for his own people, but for him and thousands of other Palestinians, practical...

Biden Blasts Israel for New Building Plans

JERUSALEM (March 9) -- Visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had unusually harsh words for Israel after the government approved 1,600 new homes in an ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem neighborhood. The new construction was announced as Israel and the Palestinians were set to resume U.S.-mediated "proximity" talks after more...