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Israeli Defense Minister Quits Labor Party

JERUSALEM -- Defense Minister Ehud Barak plunged Israel into political turmoil today when he abruptly announced he was leaving the center-left Labor Party to form a new party. Eight party members, including three cabinet ministers, quit the government, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a narrower...

Mideast Impasse Eclipses Obama's Indonesia Trip

(Nov. 9) -- Chagrin at the Mideast peace process overshadowed joy at President Barack Obama's return to Indonesia, when a trip aimed in part at highlighting U.S. engagement with the Muslim world became a forum for criticizing Israeli construction plans for disputed East Jerusalem. At an appearance today with Indonesian...

Now Israel Has a 'Tea Party'

(Oct. 28) -- The "Teh" Party? Likud Party activists in Israel have set up a protest movement against the peace process modeled after the tea party movement in the United States. "The Israeli group will hold a rally Sunday at the Zionist Organization of America House in Tel Aviv, under the banner 'Saying No to Obama,'...

There Was Never a 'Settlement Freeze' to Begin With

(Sept. 28) -- Middle East peace negotiations have reached an impasse with Israel's cessation of a 10-month "settlement freeze" on Sunday. But, in reality, during the 10-month period of the so-called freeze, settlement construction continued. Haaretz's Dror Etkes unpacks the numbers from Israel's Central Bureau of...

Palestinians Blink in Settlement Poker Match

JERUSALEM (Sept. 27) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have emerged victorious -- for now -- after a tense weekend of brinkmanship over West Bank settlement building that wrong-footed the Obama administration, divided the Palestinian leadership and perhaps humiliated both of them. Netanyahu's refusal...