May 2 2014 - 12:57pm Sec. Kerry says the Middle East peace process is on a "pause."
May 2, 2014

The United States was blindsided by a Palestinian deal with a militant group that led to the suspension of Mideast peace talks, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday, even as he voiced hope that negotiations would resume after a pause.

May 1 2014 - 11:26am U.S. report: 'Price tag' attacks spread into Israel, go unpunished
May 1, 2014

Crimes by Israeli extremists against Palestinians spread into Israel and went largely unpunished last year, according to the U.S. State Department's annual Country Reports on Terrorism for 2013, released on Wednesday.

Apr 30 2014 - 2:40pm Event 05/02: ATFP, APN and J Street U Vassar to Tackle "Why 2 States?" Question
April 30, 2014

What does a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict look like? APN Campus Outreach Manager Aaron Mann, ATP Youth Outreach Coordinator Tala Haikal and J Street U Campus Organizer Andrew Gordon-Kirsch will speak to how their work addresses these key questions and more.

Apr 30 2014 - 11:52am After peace talks collapse, experts counsel a wait-and-see approach
April 30, 2014

The best move for the Obama administration on the Middle East peace front may be to take a few steps back. That’s what some observers are advising in the wake of the collapse of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Apr 30 2014 - 11:50am Kerry to resume Mideast peace talks after a pause
April 30, 2014

To both critics and supporters, it was "classic" John Kerry. A day before the formal end of Kerry's quixotic, nine-month effort to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, the Secretary of State was surreptitiously taped making a comment that provoked a political firestorm in Washington.​

Apr 29 2014 - 11:45am Israel upped settlement work during talks
April 29, 2014

Israel increased settlement work four-fold during the latest round of peace talks, pushing forward with construction of nearly 14,000 new homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, a watchdog group said Tuesday.

Apr 29 2014 - 11:43am Arc of a Failed Deal: How Nine Months of Mideast Talks Ended in Disarray
April 29, 2014

Mr. Kerry met a total of 34 times with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, and about twice that with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

Apr 28 2014 - 11:17am Abbas calls Holocaust 'most heinous crime'
April 28, 2014

The Palestinian president on Sunday called the Holocaust "the most heinous crime" of modern history, voicing a rare acknowledgment of Jewish suffering shortly before Israel held its annual memorial for victims of the Nazi genocide.

Apr 28 2014 - 11:15am Kerry Warns Israel Could Become ‘An Apartheid State’
April 28, 2014

If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday.

Apr 25 2014 - 12:13pm Is the Mideast peace process dead?
April 25, 2014

Gwen Ifill talks to Hussein Ibish of the American Task Force for Palestine and Jeffrey Goldberg of Bloomberg View on the elusive prospects for a peace deal.


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