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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...

Poll Shows Most Israelis Want Peace but Doubt It's Possible

(Dec. 9) -- Most Israelis are apparently willing to make the tough territorial sacrifices required for a lasting peace with the Palestinians, even if their government seems far from doing so. And most Americans would like to see that happen with a neutral United States playing the mediator. But there's a considerable...

Peace Process Falters as US Rethinks Mideast Strategy

(Dec. 8) -- The U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace process, at an impasse for months, is now officially broken, with the prospect for a substantive revival any time soon looking increasingly unlikely. And however much the Obama administration today continued to promote hope for future talks, officials' frustration...

Officials: US Drops Demand for Israeli Settlement Freeze

WASHINGTON (Dec. 7) -- President Barack Obama has abandoned attempts to persuade Israel to slow West Bank settlement activity, officials said Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and one of the president's top foreign policy initiatives. After months of trying to broker a...

Israeli Settlers Threaten to Topple Netanyahu

JERUSALEM (Nov. 8) -- Israeli settler leaders said today they would topple the coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he agrees to renew a building freeze demanded by the Palestinians as a precondition to restarting peace talks. Netanyahu, who is in the United States for talks with Vice President Joe...