Israeli-Palestinian relations

The Abraham Accords’ second act - opinion

The Abraham Accords provide a common political umbrella through which governments can cooperate.

Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords in Washington, US, September 15, 2020.
JEWISH SETTLERS are seen at the unauthorized Beit Anot outpost in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank after being informed of an expected evacuation, June 1, 2026.

How democratic Israelis can win the war against the messianic settler Right - opinion

An Israeli and a Palestinian flag hang on an installation set up by members of the Brazilian NGO Rio de Paz at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 4, 2025

TEMA Network presents report on Israeli society's attitudes towards Israeli-Palestinian conflict

ILLUSTRATIVE: A woman walks near the State of Palestine Pavilion at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, last in December 2023.

Israeli, Palestinian civil society meet in France as two-state solution dims


Australia takes anti-Israel stand, approves a Palestinian sovereignty text

The resolution was voted on at the UN committee, with the US, Israel, Canada, and four other countries voting against the resolution.

 Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia Penny Wong addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, September 27, 2024.

Consensus reached, time’s up for UNRWA: Israel’s Knesset says enough to 'toxic aid' - comment

The decision to ban UNRWA signals Israel's willingness to break free from organization and structures that breed hostility.

 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024.

Grapevine October 20, 2024: Hope and memory

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Together with a scribe, President Isaac Herzog writes a letter in a new Torah scroll.

Addressing anti-Israel sentiment through educational reform - opinion

The threat from faculty and curriculum.

A protest encampment is set up in support of Palestinians, at the University of California, Berkeley, in April. The problem with the eruption of the  anti-Israel protests has been the involvement of many faculty members in reframing the notion of Palestine, the writer argues.

We must confront forces of destruction with all our power - opinion

In a reflection on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the writer delves into the numerous peace initiatives that have been proposed and consistently rejected by Arab and Palestinian leaders.

 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

The Gaza pier shows America's approach to the war is tone-deaf - opinion

Successful mediation of an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will require the US to construct a strategy around the values of the people involved, not their own.

 A TRUCK carries humanitarian aid across the floating pier constructed to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, last month.

It’s time to reassess Europe’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

The EU needs a balanced, updated strategy that considers both sides. It must clearly oppose all forms of hatred and violence, especially from those calling for Israel’s destruction.

 OUTGOING EUROPEAN UNION foreign policy chief Josep Borrell attends an EU meeting in Brussels, earlier this year. An unbalanced EU policy undermines its potential to positively influence the situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says the writer.

How can we shape the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations? - opinion

Following the harrowing events that unfolded on October 7, Israel needs to find a way to look forward in order to the future challenges the conflict will present.

 Yohanan Tzoreff: Israel has the opportunity to determine the what hte future of the conflict would look like.

'Jews aren't the devil you make us out to be' - opinion

Israel was founded on values adored by today’s progressives (anti-colonialism, socialism, collectivism, communion with the land) by the most peripatetic and outcast of people (the “wandering Jews”).

 A PROTESTER accuses Israel of war crimes, outside the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, last month. To accuse Israelis of following in the footsteps of the Nazis demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the history of the Jewish people, the writer argues.

'I have friends in Palestine': The tragic irony of a peace activist held by Hamas - comment

Her dramatic and heart wrenching words, "I have friends in Palestine," should be a wake-up call: Hamas, as well as a majority of Palestinians, will never acknowledge Israel.

 Screenshot of video provided by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum of observers getting kidnapped to Gaza, May 22, 2024.