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Meet the EU envoy hoping to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: “We all have an obligation as non-desperate people who try to do good things to show that there is something to live for,” he said.

SVEN KOOPMANS, the European Union’s special representative for the Middle East peace process, poses overlooking east Jerusalem this week.
Netanyahu and Abbas

Palestinians furious over Netanyahu claims that Israel must 'crush' statehood ambitions

 YANKELE HILLEL, a survivor of the 1929 Hebron massacre, places a stone on a grave amid a long row of small headstones for the victims, at a cemetery in the city, August 2009, marking 80 years since the massacre.

Palestinian rejectionism, glorification of terrorism is stopping peace - opinion

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in Berlin, Germany, August 16, 2022.

Palestinian President Abbas' holocaust comment is not new - analysis


'The US is very pleased' with Gantz-Abbas meeting

Defense Minister Benny Gantz promised a NIS 100 million loan and legal status for 9,500 Palestinians during the rare meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas makes a statement as he attends the Revolutionary Council Meeting of Fatah Movement at the Palestinian Presidential Office in Ramallah, on December 18, 2019.

Gantz-Abbas meeting angers right-wing politicians

Gantz informed Bennett and Lapid ahead of the meeting, but most security cabinet ministers only found out about it in the press.

 DEFENSE MINISTER Benny Gantz, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar at the opening of the winter session at the Knesset, November 8, 2021.

Israeli reconsideration of PA ties may be too little, too late - analysis

Not many Israelis realize how fragile the current situation in the West Bank is, and how much it has changed during the last 12 years of internal and external stalemate.

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas attends a virtual meeting about Israel and the UAE normalizing ties, in Ramallah on September 3.

Joint Israeli-Palestinian NGO brings young entrepreneurs together

Despite pandemic, Tech2Peace barrels ahead with program aimed at building lasting business partnerships.

Python programming course in Jisr az-Zarqa's outdoor Beachub workspace.

Palestinians launch campaign to boycott IDF humanitarian, economic aid

The campaign comes on the heels of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s May 19 decision to renounce all agreements and understandings with Israel and the US, including security cooperation.

A Palestinian woman steps on a replica of an Israeli flag during an event marking Land Day near the Israel-Gaza border as mass rallies planned to commemorate the event were cancelled amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus, east of Gaza City March 30, 2020

Abbas ‘fully supports’ Palestinian officials who meet with Israelis

Abbas praised the “national work” of the Palestinian Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society despite the “difficulties and problems they have been facing.”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New York, U.S., February 11, 2020

Avnery’s legacy

When we hear today about Israel abandoning its democratic traditions or criticism about issues it should all be seen through the lens of Avnery’s critiques of the 1960s.

Uri Avnery at protest

Israeli prison to join Armageddon's list of ancient ruins

Now, after years of legal and bureaucratic delays, the prison is to be relocated, freeing up the site for further exploration potentially as early as 2021.

Workers dig at the Tel Megiddo Archaeological site in northern Israel July 24, 2018

Before any talks, the Palestinians must move from rejection to recognition

A fatal flaw meant that they were doomed to failure.

Participants run past Israeli barrier during Palestine Marathon in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Joint declaration calls on US to demand Palestinians recognize Jewish state

"The primary obstacle to ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the near century of Palestinian rejectionism of the right of self-determination for the Jewish People”

A worker cleans the stage near Israeli and American flags

Trump envoy Greenblatt facilitates historic Israeli-Palestinian water deal

While US envoy Jason Greenblatt hailed the agreement, saying that "water is a precious commodity in the Middle East," he deflected questions about the larger diplomatic process.

US Envoy Jason Greenblatt flanked by Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Tzahi Hanegbi (left) and PA Water Authority head Mazen Ghuneim.