Will Trump make a peace breakthrough in 2018?
US President Donald Trump’s goal of generating a rapid improvement of Israel’s ties with the Arab world, including the Palestinians
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Israel-Palestinian talks
Israeli Diplomacy with Abbas Iced over, but Thrives with Hamas
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius collected a hatful of nos when, during his visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah Sunday, June
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The US Peacemaker’s Nosedive Opens West Bank Door to Hamas
Hamas sent its rivals, Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah, packing from the Gaza Strip in June 2007 in a well
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How Abbas’s Unity Pact with Hamas Caught US and Israeli Intelligence Napping
The reconciliation pact signed by the two rival Palestinian factions, Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah and the Hamas rulers of the Gaza
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Washington takes time out from Israeli-Palestinian talks, Netanyahu and Livni upbeat about deal
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, after several days of evaluating the chances of re-igniting Israel-Palestinian peace
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Israeli launches spy satellite after US refusal to push for Iran’s weapons program’s dismantlement
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to delay the launch of Israel’s improved Ofek 10 spy satellite Wednesday night April
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Options for Mid East talks: Carrying on, interim deal, or a turn to the Saudi-UAE-Egyptian bloc
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, nearing 80, has proved time and again in the last two decades that he will never
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US Can’t Afford another Diplomatic Debacle in the Middle East
Frustrated but not ready to quit, US Secretary of State John Kerry is picking up the pieces of the worst
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Abbas dumps another US-led peace effort, Kerry gives up on shuttle, Pollard release recedes
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas did not announce his walkout from the negotiations with Israel or directly turn down the package
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To get at Obama and Kerry, Arab League summit drafts hard-line ultimatums for Israeli-Palestinian peace track
Arab leaders whose summit begins in Kuwait Tuesday, March 25, are set to carry hard-line ultimatums for the US-sponsored Palestinian-Israeli
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