Framework for peace

Historic Trump-Aoun meeting showcases White House's new Middle East priorities - analysis

Trump's recent meeting with Aoun demonstrates a US commitment to brokering peace between Israel and Lebanon in the wake of the June Framework Agreement.

 U.S. President Donald Trump (L) greets President of Lebanon Joseph Aoun as he arrives at the White House on July 21, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh.

An Israeli-Lebanese framework agreement with many pitfalls - opinion

MAHANEH YEHUDA last month: I dream of visiting the stalls of the shuk in Tehran instead of Iran firing missiles at the shuk in Jerusalem, says the writer.

If Palestinians could give up their lust for terror, Israel could know peace - opinion

THEN-US vice president Joe Biden gestures as he walks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after their meeting in Ramallah in 2010.

Flurry of Israeli Palestinian phone calls doesn't spell peace - 8 takes


From Oslo to peace

The contours of a negotiated settlement have been mapped out by politicians and pundits and gamed by academics and played thousands of times by NGOs.

Slain Israeli Prime Minister Rabin with former US President Bill Clinton and former PLO President Yasser Arafat after signing the Oslo Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

20 years on the the future looks bleak.

The Jerusalem Post

If you're over 50 you might as well be dead!

The Jerusalem Post

Whispers of Nonviolence

Although the majority of West Bank Palestinians favor violence against Israelis, there are pockets of disciples of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Ali Abu Awwad leads an activity with Israeli and Palestinian teenagers

On the same side?

A Jerusalem-based peace initiative is attracting settlers, haredim, left-wingers and Arabs.

Israel and Palestinian flags

Watch: Netanyahu urges world to reject deal with Iran on heels of Kerry comments

Netanyahu says framework deal fails to stop Iranian nuclear ambitions in Youtube video released after Kerry appeals directly to the Israeli public.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Memorial Day ceremony on Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem

Jews rally in Paris suburb to protest rise in anti-Semitism

Calls for government to do more against rising anti-Semitism heard at protest.

Paris, France.

Romanian prime minister: We have no anti-Semitism

European nation engaged in efforts to end Israel-Palestinian dispute, reach accord with Iran.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

MKs plan meeting with Abbas to solve breakdown in talks on their own

The Labor MK will choose the legislators joining him on the meeting by Monday and plans to include members of the coalition and opposition.

Labor Party MK Hilik Bar 370

Salam, Shalom and Peace

Online activism group, Yala Young Leaders, launches interactive classroom that will bring advice from successful peace practitioners to Middle East youth.

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