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Interview: Hamas official Aziz Dweik, the constitutional successor to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, rejects violence. He seeks to bridge the Hamas divide with Abbas's Fatah party, which weakens Palestinians in talks with Israel.
An Israeli minister said on Tuesday that an agreement with Hamas to swap a Gaza-held soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners was "very close," despite earlier efforts to rein in speculation.
Amman - The Jordanian government on Thursday rejected Israel's latest offer to temporarily freeze settlement activity in the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem, which Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. The unilateral Israeli plan...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is stepping squarely into Middle East politics, hosting the leaders of Iran and the Palestinians while trading barbs with Israel's president.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Israel's army said Thursday it thwarted a major bomb attack on the Egyptian-Israeli border, near the southern city of Eilat.
MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Vast crowds of pilgrims cast stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj on Friday as Muslims around the world began celebrating Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday of the Islamic calendar.
Officials say the two enemies are nearing a deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian inmates for an Israeli soldier held captive for more than three years in the Gaza Strip.
Beirut - Lebanon's new national unity government agreed Thursday to allow the Shiite movement Hezbollah to keep its arms to resist Israel, despite some reservations by some cabinet members. Information Minister Tarek Mitri said the cabinet's policy s...
Lebanese artists flee a war and discover an audience eager to learn.
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weakened Israel this week. And he did so for no good reason. Thursday's headlines told the tale.
Israel's prime minister on Wednesday proposed a 10-month freeze on new West Bank settlement construction in what he said was an attempt to jump-start Mideast peace talks.
Israel’s prime minister sought to dampen speculation about a deal with Hamas to recover an Israeli soldier.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli soldiers prevented a major terror attack after catching a man carrying a bomb along the Egyptian border.
Israel's prime minister tried on Tuesday to temper expectations that a deal to free an Israeli soldier held by Hamas militants for more than three years was close, despite a rash of reports that serious progress has been made.
Gaza, March 3 (Reuters)—Hamas declared victory after Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza Strip on Monday following a U.S. appeal to end days of fighting that killed more than 100 Palestinians.
Statement: : It's Premature to Promise the Release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli Soldier Captured More than 3 Years Ago
An Israeli air strike wounded four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian medical workers said, but Israel said one of them had been killed.
November 27, 2009: Peace talks between Palestinians and Israel continue to go nowhere. The basic problem is that, for the last two generations, it has been Palestinian policy to teach their children that Israel has no right to exist.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel's prime minister tried on Tuesday to temper expectations that a deal to free an Israeli soldier held by Hamas militants was imminent. After three years of troubled negotiations, officials in Israel and the Gaza Strip have recently reported progress toward clinching a deal to swap Sgt. Gilad Schalit for some 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. A Hamas delegation ...
YAROUN, LEBANON -- Suleiman's brother was a Hezbollah fighter, killed in the 2006 war with Israel. His house was destroyed by an Israeli shell. And now, his life's fortune is gone, too, lost along with the money of thousands of other Lebanese who put their faith in a billionaire financier with close...
An Israeli air strike wounded four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Israeli military and Palestinian medical workers said.
