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In stark contrast to the Bush administration, President Obama's staff is not coordinating its policy on Iran or the greater Middle East with Israel...

Israel's government has quietly begun constructing the country's security barrier along a controversial route that will effectively block off Jewish property and an important...

While President Bush "blindly" and "mindlessly" supported Israel, President Obama may be less willing to give the Jewish state "blank checks," says Rosa Brooks,...

She believes al Qaeda was an "obscure group" turned into a massive threat due to U.S. policies.

The Obama administration has decided to base its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on an Arab peace plan, according to a source in Prime...

Special Report: Update On Illegal Arab Construction In Jerusalem

Concern has been mounting over the implications of President Obama's participation this week in the UN's Alliance of Civilizations summit in Turkey, with some...

The Israeli army has rejected as "baseless" UN claims that its rules of engagement permitted Jewish soldiers to use civilians - including children -...

JERUSALEM - The recent visit by a prominent U.S. rabbi to the Temple Mount - Judaism's most revered site - stirring anew a quiet debate among some within the Jewish religious community about whether Jews should be permitted to enter the mount.

Hamas is hopeful that President Obama will open a dialogue with the group, Ahmed Yousef, Hamas's chief political adviser in Gaza, told this column...

Israel is prepared to release confessed intifada architect and terrorist group founder Marwan Barghouti as part of a larger prisoner exchange with Hamas, this...

A few officials in Jerusalem are quietly scratching their heads in wonderment at the White House's silence after last week's tractor terrorist rampage, the...

JERUSALEM - President Obama's appointment for a top intelligence post sits on the board of a major oil company owned by the Chinese government that many see as conducting business meant to expand China's influence worldwide.

An investigation by this reporter has found that sections of Jerusalem have essentially been forfeited to the Palestinian Authority with Jews, including local landowners,...

President Barack Obama's policy of direct diplomacy with Iran may buy Tehran enough time to produce nuclear weapons, Shabtai Shavit, chief of the Mossad...

The Obama administration has promised the Palestinian Authority that it will closely monitor Jewish construction in the West Bank and protest any new housing...

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu has secretly issued a stern warning to Hamas that if its rocket campaign continues once he's in power, he will...

For months Hamas has been in direct contact with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister and Mideast envoy for the international Quartet, according...

An official document being negotiated by the U.S., Israel, Egypt, the EU and other players currently grants Hamas a role in patrolling Gaza Strip's...

Despite three weeks of intense Israeli bombardment, Hamas's military capabilities inside the Gaza Strip are still largely intact, top Hamas leaders claimed. "We admit...

The Lebanese Hizbullah terrorist organization is considering complicating Israel's conflict with Hamas by launching an attack from the Jewish state's northern border, according to...

U.S. and international news media are falsely portraying an Israeli air strike against a Hamas-run university in the Gaza Strip. They are reporting that...

  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's attempts to negotiate with Syria collapsed this past week when Israel received a private message from Damascus that the Jewish...

  Hamas is willing to renew an expiring six-month truce with Israel but is delaying in hopes of extracting more concessions from the Jewish state,...

President-elect Barack Obama is considering appointing his top Mideast adviser, Daniel Kurtzer, as U.S. envoy to the Middle East, a senior Israeli diplomatic source...

    Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, killed in last week's coordinated terrorist raids in India, was so fearful his Chabad center would be attacked he forbade media...

  President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed himself "very impressed" with the Arab League's peace initiative, which offers normalization of ties with the Jewish state in...

Representatives of President-elect Barack Obama recently told Syrian officials in meetings that Obama supports ending their county's isolation and that as president he would...

A senior Hamas official claims Hamas held a meeting in the Gaza Strip several months ago with aides to President-elect Barack Obama, but the...

  Sen. Barack Obama told the Palestinian leadership he supports their rights to a capital in eastern Jerusalem but asked them to keep his remarks...