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There are signs that Fatah is preparing to launch a major operation against Hamas in the West Bank in the coming weeks ahead of expected turmoil when Mahmoud Abbas's term as PA president ends in January, a top ...

RAMALLAH. October 7. KAZINFORM. For the first time in the history of illegal takeovers of privately owned Palestinian land, the Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din on behalf of five Palestinian ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asserted on Saturday that his Palestinian National Authority would continue holding peace talks with any Israeli leadership that will be formed soon.

China, the Palestinian National Authority and UN Development Program signed an agreement Saturday to construct the Palestinian Foreign Ministry's new office building.

Hamas is planning to declare one of its top officials as interim president of the Palestinian Authority after Mahmoud Abbas's term in office expires in January 2009, Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip said ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank * Closure of the West Bank for the Jewish New Year placed further restrictions on the movement of Palestinians marking the end of Ramadan yesterday.

It was always John Lennon who was the controversial one, once famously claiming that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus". Try as he might, though, his former band-mate Sir Paul McCartney, who was due to ...

Jerusalem Post columnist Barbara Sofer is one of three journalists who will receive the Search for Common Ground's annual Elia-Sartawi awards for Middle East journalism.

Sir Paul said he was "not a political animal [but] a humanitarian" Sir Paul McCartney is playing his first gig in Israel in front of tens of thousands of cheering fans.

Why use an explosive belt if you can get hold of a car or bulldozer? Three terrorists driving vehicles ran over Jews in Jerusalem over the past few moths, killing three people and injuring dozens.

IDF forces thwarted an attempt by Palestinians to run over a group of soldiers on Wednesday, near the West Bank village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia on Tuesday said he is pessimistic of reaching a final agreement on all permanent status issues with Israel by the end of the year.

An Israeli court on Monday sentenced a Palestinian activist to life imprisonment and additional 80 years for his involvement in the killing of Israeli tourism minister in 2001 in Jerusalem.

Tzipi Livni was a woman in a hurry yesterday. Addressing her first meeting as the leader of Israel's largest party, Kadima, she urged Ehud Olmert to stick to his pledge to resign as prime minister, and said ...

Prominent Palestinians are lighting a fire under Israel's feet by proposing a peace in which there would be no separate Palestine and Israel, but a single state with equal rights for all.

The recent talk of a binational state of Arabs and Jews may be little more than a Palestinian pressure tactic fed by frustration over the failure of talks on a two-state solution, but it has set Israeli leaders on edge.

Such a merger of Israel with the West Bank and Gaza Strip would quickly result in the Jews being outnumbered by the faster-growing Arab population. For most Israelis it would result in a nightmare choice: Give the Arabs full voting rights and lose Israel's Jewish character, or deny them equality and be branded an apartheid state.

At Large A Black Sheep in the Hamas Family By Mark Tooley Published 9/18/2008 12:07:37 AM Few media in the U.S. beyond evangelical Christian blogs have taken much interest.

Tzipi Livni, Israel's Foreign Minister, celebrated victory last night as exit polls showed the ruling Kadima party had decisively elected her as leader and propelled her to within reach of becoming the ...

They expressed their hope that the peace agreement would resolve all outstanding issues, including "all core issues, without exception". Bush's wish to go down in the history books as the broker of peace ...

A Palestinian stabbed an IDF soldier Monday afternoon at Almog Junction, located on the Jerusalem-Dead Sea road near Ma'aleh Adumim.

Sir, - If there were any questions about Russia's true intentions in the Middle East, the Russian aid to Iran in its nuclear program should dispel any doubt .