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Israeli soldiers scuffle with a Palestinian demonstrator during a protest against the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah yesterday Israel is ready to withdraw from areas of the Golan Heights, but it will not give up large parts of the occupied territory in any peace deal with Syria, a top aide to Israeli ...

The Israeli Defence Force is considering allowing the Palestinians to establish a specially trained counter-terror squad, qualified to carry out pinpoint operations against Hamas terrorist cells in the West Bank.

The clouds that normally obscure events in the Middle East start to recede when Khaled Abu Toameh begins talking about the future of Palestinians and Israelis.

Five years ago the international court of justice ruled that Israel's apartheid wall should be demolished.

The mood in Jerusalem this week was one of shock. As if it weren't enough that the Obama administration is ignoring previous understandings between Israel and the Bush administration regarding natural growth in the settlements, now it seems there isn't agreement even on the outposts.

Three huge granite stones rest comfortably on the top of Midbar Sinai Street, in Givat Havatzim, JerusalemA s northernmost district.

Labourers work at a construction site of new housing units in Givat Zeev Israeli settlement in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem, in May.

The European Commission backtracked Thursday on the unusually harsh denunciation of Israel's settlement policy it issued earlier this week, saying it did not reflect the commission's position.

JERUSALEM - A top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is no Palestinian leadership and he doubts there will be true peace between Israel and the Palestinians.The statement by National Security Council chief Uzi Arad raises new questions about how Israel intends to proceed with efforts to renew stalled peace talks.

Go west, Israeli authorities are now actually proposing to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem.

Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak, right, stands with Israeli military chief Lt.

Ilana Sichel held a ladder steady for her Israeli boyfriend Romy Achituv while he slapped a white sticker over the defaced Arabic script on a battered yellow sign in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem.

In a single TV interview, one of the Palestinian Authority's most senior religious officials has reiterated several of the many fundamental lies, libels and defamations about Israel, Jews and Jewish history that play a central role in PA ideology and hate propaganda.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday paid lip service for probably the first time in public to the term of "two states for two peoples" regarding the historical peace process with the Palestinians.

I spent a lot of time this weekend thinking about the Fourth of July, and why this Independence Day, this year, was different from all others.

Date : Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:25:04 PDT Philippine Star Trip to Jerusalem CRAZY QUILT By Tanya T. Lara Updated July 05, 2009 12:00 AM Photo - Promises in the Promised Land: View of the Holy Sepulcher Church in Old Jerusalem .

Mckinney stood up for the principals on which her country was founded 233 years ago.

Jerusalem - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday called on all parties in the Arab-Israeli conflict to return to the negotiating table, saying that "time is working against peace" in the region.

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Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister said Monday that he voluntarily removed himself from crucial talks with the U.S. because he lives in a West Bank settlement, denying speculation that he's being sidelined by an image-conscious government troubled by growing friction with the Obama administration.