Palestine peace talks

Peace absent from Israel's 2026 elections as West Bank tensions continue to rise -analysis

More than three years of war have reshaped the country, but few candidates are offering a vision for relations with the Palestinians, let alone a path toward resolving the conflict. 

Election campaign billboards featuring Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot and Likud party chairman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside opposition leaders are displayed along a roadside in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections.
A woman walks past a mural depicting football player Lamine Yamal waving a Palestinian flag during the Catalans' title parade, painted by Palestinian artists on the rubble of buildings destroyed during the war, at Shati (Beach) refugee camp in Gaza City on May 13, 2026.

Hamas dissolution of Gaza government is a trick to keep weapons, expert warns

A banner featuring an image of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and reading: "Together to complete the construction process", ahead of an international summit on Gaza, held amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 12, 2025.

Egypt’s influence rises with hosting of peace summits

 Palestinians shop at a market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on June 5, 2025.

The West clings to the two-state myth—but Arab leaders are moving on - opinion


The solution to Israel-Palestine - Opinion

The writer reflects on the various shortcomings of previous philosophies on the land division between Israelis and Palestinians.

 A MAP in the Palestinian pavilion showing Palestine as including the State of Israel.

Saudi FM urges Israel to engage seriously on resolving Palestinian conflict

Saudi Arabian foreign minister presses for Palestinian peace talks

 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud arrive to deliver remarks to reporters before meeting at the State Department in October.

New documentary features Israelis, Palestinians who have lost family to conflict

The film advocates for the idea that in order to have any hope of peace, both sides must be able to see both the pain and the humanity of the other.

 A SCENE from ‘A Narrow Bridge.’

Benjamin Netanyahu 'doesn't believe' in peace with Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas says

"I knew Netanyahu for a long time, since the 1990s ...He is a man who doesn't believe in peace but I have no other choice but to deal with him," Abbas said.

 Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at the 2022 CICA conference.

Palestinian rejectionism, glorification of terrorism is stopping peace - opinion

Such actions prove that the core issue isn’t occupation, but Palestinian rejectionism and terrorism against the indigenous people of the land – the Jews

 YANKELE HILLEL, a survivor of the 1929 Hebron massacre, places a stone on a grave amid a long row of small headstones for the victims, at a cemetery in the city, August 2009, marking 80 years since the massacre.

Israeli, Palestinian women call to revive peace talks

Hundreds meet by Dead Sea to call on political leaders to work toward peace

 Hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian women held a meeting at the Dead Sea on Friday

It's time to terminate the PA’s terrorist payment program

A 2018 law that requires Israel to deduct the cost of the terrorists’ salaries from the tax revenues it collects monthly for the PA has not deterred the PA from continuing its despicable program.

MEMBERS OF the Fogel Family (right) protest the release of Palestinian prisoners, in 2014.

How Biden should handle Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - opinion

While the Israeli-Palestinian issue is not expected to figure prominently on the administration’s short-term agenda, Biden’s foreign policy and defense appointees are expected to deal with the issue.

 A GENERAL view of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City last year.

Some 49% of Israelis want Biden to relaunch talks with the PA

When asked if Biden should advance talks with the Palestinians, 49% said “yes,” 36% said “no,” and 15% had no opinion.

Then US Vice-President Joe Biden (L) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 9, 2016

Senior Likud MK: Netanyahu will never recognize a Palestinian state

“We can’t allow for a terror state to be created here,” Yesha Council CEO Yigal Dilmoni told reporters earlier in the day.

MK Miki Zohar, 2019.