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Secretary Kerry Listens to Reporter's Question During News Conference in Juba. (photo: State Department)

U.S. post-mortem on peace talks: Israel killed them

Americans involved in Kerry initiative give interview indicting Netanyahu government and exonerating Palestinian leader Abbas. Yedioth Ahronoth’s Nahum Barnea, Israel’s No. 1 print journalist, has a long interview on Friday with unnamed U.S. officials involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, giving their view of why they failed. The interview is quite a bombshell, as well…

By Larry Derfner May 2, 2014

Netanyahu and Abbas in Washington, September 15, 2010 (State Dept. Photo)

‘There was no generous offer’: A history of peace talks

Raviv Drucker, a prominent journalist who co-hosts a well-known television magazine program on Channel 10, wrote a tough blog post in which he takes some of Israel’s best known journalists to task for presenting a completely erroneous interpretation of the Palestinian position regarding a negotiated agreement for a two-state solution. I have translated his post…

By Lisa Goldman April 26, 2014

At the end, several youths started burning tires (Yotam Ronen / Activestills)

Palestinians demand Shuhada St. reopened after 20 years

In a rare, united political front, Palestinian protesters try to reach Hebron’s segregated Shuhada Street but are confronted by Israeli army and police. Five are arrested and a B’Tselem researcher is hit in the head with a rubber-coated bullet. [This post has been updated] About 1,000 Palestinians from all political parties, joined by Israeli and…

By Haggai Matar February 21, 2014

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Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked of Jewish Home at the party headquarters on election day 2013 (Activestills)

Are the settlers on their way out of Netanyahu’s government?

Prime Minister Netanyahu is fanning the flames of a confrontation with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett. For now the public rift serves both sides. Concern is growing among the settlers over Kerry’s peace initiative. I heard a person close to the Yesha Council – the settlers’ main advocacy and lobbying organization – say that at…

By Noam Sheizaf January 29, 2014