The future independent Palestinian state will not include a Jewish minority, a top Palestinian official told USA Today on Wednesday, adding that it was in the best interest of both peoples to “be separated.”Read More
The Jewish Federations of North America criticized how President Obama proposes funding his jobs bill, although it has praised other elements of the bill.Read More
A Palestinian man has been sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for the murder of five members of the Fogel family.Read More
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the senior Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Western Hemisphere subcommittee, is lobbying countries to vote against Palestinian statehood recognition in the United Nations.Read More
Opposition leader and Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Wednesday, saying that it has led Israel to the “worst possible diplomatic situation.”Read More
Palestinian Authority officials understand that a Security Council petition for statehood would prompt a U.S. veto and are tying to wrest last-minute promises from the Obama administration.Read More
Bill Richardson is leaving Cuba after failing to secure even a meeting with imprisoned American contractor Alan Gross.Read More
A small Florida museum was ordered to hold onto a painting on loan from Italy because it may have been looted by the Nazis.Read More
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo on Tuesday that the mentality of the Israeli government serves as an obstacle to peace in the Middle East, and stressed the need for recognition of a Palestinian state.Read More
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