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The article focuses on the shifting dynamics in the Middle East, exemplified by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's support for Israel in its defense against Iranian drones, highlighting how the conflict between Israel and Iran has led to unusual alliances and raised concerns.

The article focuses on Israel's historical defiance of international organizations, highlighted by David Ben-Gurion's dismissal of the United Nations as "Um-Shmum," and the current condemnation Israel faces in global forums like the U.N. and the International Court of Justice.

The article reports on updates on the war between Israel and the Hamas group of Palestine, particularly the launching by Israel of its ground counteroffensive in the Gaza Strip. Also cited are the death toll in the hostilities including over 8,000 Palestinians, the protests around the world calling for a cease-fire, and the potential response by Israel's allies like the U.S. and its adversaries like the militant group Hezbollah on its ground offensive.

The article focuses on Israel accusing freelance photographers, including those from The New York Times, of being "accomplices" in the killing and abductions of Israeli soldiers and civilians by Hamas fighters, an allegation strongly denied by The Times.

The article reports that president Donald Trump has announced that Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain will be establishing diplomatic relation with Israel and mentions efforts of Trump to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.

The article offers information on the mixed messages from U.S. president Donald Trump regarding his peace policy for Israel. Topics discussed include pressure for Trump from his hard-line pro-Israel supporters for make peace between Israelis and Palestinians; disappointment expressed by businessman Sheldon G. Adelson against Trump for not fulfilling the promise; and move of Trump's ambassador David M. Friedman to Israel as part of Trump's peace making project.

The article discusses the United States' lack of diplomatic influence over the government of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as of August 4, 2014. Topics addressed include U.S. criticisms of the high number of Palestinian casualties caused by Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip, efforts to broker a cease-fire in the conflict, and U.S. president Barack Obama's and U.S. secretary of state John Kerry's tense communications with Israel.

The article reports on the negotiations between the U.S. and Israeli government in regulating the construction of settlements in the West Bank as a measure to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

The article offers information on the advanced development in the plan of Israel regarding on the Jewish settlements within the area of east Jerusalem. It says that Israel will continue to pursue on its preliminary zoning and planning preparations to have developments that would lead to the separation of West Bank cities of Ram Allah and Bethlehem from Jerusalem. It adds that the development of the empty area called E1 will connect the town of Maale Adumim to Jerusalem.

The article discusses the United States' foreign policy regarding intervention in the Syrian revolution as of May 6, 2013, highlighting a cautious approach of the U.S. Topics addressed include allegations of the Syrian opposition forces' use of chemical weapons based on the nerve agent sarin, Israeli air attacks on targets in Syria, and the possibility of enforcing a no-fly zone over Syria.

The article reports that on March 22, 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama helped Israel and Turkey reach a resolution to a dispute over Israel's 2010 raid on a Turkish ship aiding Palestinians in Gaza. It states that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan following Obama's participation in the reconciliation and both sides have agreed to dispatch envoys. Details of the 2010 attack on the Turkish flotilla ship known as the Mavi Marmara are provided.

The article discusses United States president Barack Obama's diplomatic visit to Jerusalem, highlighting his efforts to encourage peace talks between the Palestinian and Israeli governments as of March 22, 2013. Topics addressed include Obama's position on Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories, his meetings with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and a speech directed at Israeli youth.

The article focuses on the efforts by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator John F. Kerry for nuclear talks with Iran, adapted from the article "Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power," by Mark Landler.

Reports that Haim Saban, an Israeli billionaire, is on the verge of taking control of the assets lost by Leo Kirch, who was once the most powerful media businessman in postwar Germany. Deal that would make Saban the first non-German to break into Germany's television industry; Holdings of Kirch that include a film library and a stake in Germany's largest commercial broadcaster, ProSiebenSat.1; Trend of the business to be insular.

The article reports on the response of Israel to the U.S. official who called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a coward.

The article reports that U.S. President Barack Obama advocates Palestinian politician Mahmoud Abbas to take toughened political risks with peace talks, however Abbas reaffirms denial to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

The article reports on the efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in promoting a peace deal with the Palestinians on March 4, 2014 claiming it would enable Israel to tighten ties with its Arab neighbors and looks forward on issues like health, energy and education.

The article reports on the statement of a senior Israeli official on May 15, 2013 that the country considers additional military strikes to prevent the transfer of advanced weapons by Syria to Islamic militants in the region.

The article reports on the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama in visiting Israel in March 2013 and mentions that the conversation between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could settle the differences between the two countries.

The article reports on the anticipation of U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for the unity at pro-Israel group as implied at their back-to-back speeches on March 4, 2013.

The article reports on U.S. President Barack Obama's disagreement on the Jewish settlement planned by Israel. Daniel C. Kurtzer, former American ambassador states that U.S. has warned Israel not to build in the area adjoining East Jerusalem known as E1 as it may result to the creation of Palestinian states. Furthermore, Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council adds that the actions are harmful and makes it tougher to resume direct negotiations or attain a two-state solution.

The article reports on the search of the U.S. and Israel on how they will be able to control the damage caused by the approval of a resolution that would upgrade the status of Palestinian Authority. It states the possibility fro the Palestinians to their new status and seek membership in the International Criminal Court as the major concern of the Americans. It also mentions the consequences if the Palestinians seeks for membership in the specialized agencies of the United Nations.

The article reports on the move of the Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send e-mail to its embassies and consulates around the world about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration that he had no idea about the possibility of bilateral talks between the U.S. and Iran. It notes that the letter also advises all government employees not to speak publicly about the issue. It adds that three senior cabinet ministers had already commented in radio interviews before the email.

WASHINGTON -- Even before President Obama declared this month that ''I have Israel's back'' in its escalating confrontation with Iran, pro-Israel figures like the evangelical Christian leader Gary L. Bauer and the conservative commentator William Kristol were pushing for more. In a slickly produced, 30-minute video, the group that the two men lead, the Emergency Committee for Israel, mocked Mr. Obama's ''unshakable commitment to Israel's security'' and attacked his record on Iran as weak. ''I'll be brutally honest: I don't trust the president on Israel,'' Mr. Bauer, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, said in an interview. ''I think his record on Israel is abysmal.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- On the eve of a crucial visit to the White House by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, that country's most powerful American advocates are mounting an extraordinary public campaign to pressure President Obama into hardening American policy toward Iran over its nuclear program. From the corridors of Congress to a gathering of nearly 14,000 American Jews and other supporters of Israel here this weekend, Mr. Obama is being buffeted by demands that the United States be more aggressive toward Iran and more forthright in supporting Israel in its own confrontation with Tehran. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, speaking days before a crucial meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, stiffened his pledge to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, even as he warned Israel of the negative consequences of a pre-emptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Seeking to reassure a close American ally that contends it has reached a moment of reckoning with Iran, Mr. Obama rejected suggestions that the United States was willing to try to contain a nuclear-armed Iran. He declared explicitly that his administration would use force -- a ''military component,'' as he put it -- only as a last resort to prevent Tehran from acquiring a bomb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Amid mounting tensions over whether Israel will carry out a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, the United States and Israel remain at odds over a fundamental question: whether Iran's crucial nuclear facilities are about to become impregnable. Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, coined the phrase ''zone of immunity'' to define the circumstances under which Israel would judge it could no longer hold off from an attack because Iran's effort to produce a bomb would be invulnerable to any strike. But judging when that moment will arrive has set off an intense debate with the Obama administration, whose officials counter that there are other ways to make Iran vulnerable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Among the very first foreign leaders President Obama called after entering the Oval Office on Jan. 21, 2009, was the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. The last time the two men spoke was in February, when Mr. Obama failed, in an awkward, 55-minute phone conversation, to persuade Mr. Abbas not to go to the United Nations to condemn Israel for building Jewish settlements. The 25 months between those calls demonstrate how Mr. Obama's relationship with Mr. Abbas has withered -- and along with it, Mr. Obama's hopes to make Middle East peacemaking one of his signature achievements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- It is a truism of Middle East peacemaking that the United States is the pivotal player -- the most credible broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But with talks at a standstill, the Obama administration now finds itself on the sidelines, and Europe is emerging as the key diplomatic actor. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, have crisscrossed the Continent in recent weeks, trying to woo leaders who are weighing whether to support a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations in September. Neither man has visited Washington since the spring. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Five days ago, during a closed-door meeting with a group of Middle East experts, administration officials, and journalists, King Abdullah II of Jordan gave his assessment of how Arabs view the debate within the Obama administration over how far to push Israel on concessions for peace with the Palestinians. From the State Department, ''we get good responses,'' the Jordanian king said, according to several people who were in the room. And from the Pentagon, too. ''But not from the White House, and we know the reason why is because of Dennis Ross'' -- President Obama's chief Middle East adviser. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, seeking to capture a moment of epochal change in the Arab world, began a new effort on Thursday to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, setting out a new starting point for negotiations on the region's most intractable problem. A day before the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Mr. Obama declared that the prevailing borders before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war -- adjusted to some degree to account for Israeli settlements in the West Bank -- should be the basis of a deal. While the 1967 borders have long been viewed as the foundation for a peace agreement, Mr. Obama's formula of land swaps to compensate for disputed territory created a new benchmark for a diplomatic solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Six months after the Arab world erupted in a political firestorm, President Obama has been searching for ways to link the region's historic transformation to the long-stymied peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. It is far from clear how he can do that. Mr. Obama will have a chance to reshape the debate on Thursday, when he delivers a major speech on the region at the State Department. The president plans to argue that the political upheaval raises the prospect for progress on all fronts, and will offer ''some specific new ideas about U.S. policy toward the region,'' the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- As the Obama administration gropes for the right response to the uprising in Egypt, it has not lacked for advice from democracy advocates, academics, pundits, even members of the previous administration. But few voices have been as urgent, insistent or persuasive as those of Egypt's neighbors. Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have each repeatedly pressed the United States not to cut loose Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, too hastily, or to throw its weight behind the democracy movement in a way that could further destabilize the region, diplomats say. One Middle Eastern envoy said that on a single day, he spent 12 hours on the phone with American officials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- It speaks to the paralysis in the Middle East peace process that the most noteworthy development of the past week came when a mild-mannered analyst at a pro-Israel think tank unfurled three color-coded maps. The analyst, David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wanted to show, in concrete terms, how negotiators could create a new Palestinian state in the West Bank, using the pre-1967 boundaries of Israel as a baseline, while taking into account the roughly 300,000 Jewish settlers who now live there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel came to the United States recently for another round of tense talks with the Obama administration, he got a decidedly warmer welcome from one of the rising Republican stars on Capitol Hill, Representative Eric Cantor, the incoming majority leader of the House. But while Mr. Cantor and other newly empowered Republicans are eager to promote themselves as Israel's staunchest defenders in Washington, the reconfigured American political landscape is a more complex and unpredictable backdrop for Middle East peacemaking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- A week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton worked out an agreement for a 90-day freeze on Israeli settlement construction, the deal remains hung up in Mr. Netanyahu's Cabinet, with Israeli and American officials haggling over details like how generous a subsidy the United States will give Israel for 20 advanced fighter aircraft. On Friday, the Obama administration confirmed publicly for the first time its readiness to give Israel written assurances on security issues. Mr. Netanyahu says he needs those guarantees to persuade members of his Cabinet to support the freeze, which is intended to revive peace talks with the Palestinians. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JERUSALEM -- Israel's inner cabinet approved a plan in principle on Wednesday to withdraw from the northern part of a village straddling the border with Lebanon, addressing an American concern and a longstanding point of contention between Israel and Lebanon. But the action was unlikely to ease American pressure on Israel regarding a new moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements that is intended to get Israeli-Palestinian peace talks back on track. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- With tensions between the United States and Israel flaring again over Jewish settlements, the Obama administration and its allies worked feverishly on multiple fronts Wednesday to put Middle East peace talks back on track. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated President Obama's criticism of Israel's new housing plans in East Jerusalem, calling them ''counterproductive'' to the peace process. But she discouraged the Palestinian Authority from unilaterally declaring an independent state, an action that Palestinian officials have threatened to take in recent weeks as the talks have remained paralyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's criticism of new Israeli housing plans for East Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's even sharper retort, have thrown the Middle East peace talks into jeopardy, with the dispute over Jewish settlements looming as a seemingly insuperable hurdle. The Obama administration is struggling to restart direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, which stalled last month after the expiration of a partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet Mr. Netanyahu in New York on Thursday, while Egypt sent two top officials to Washington to discuss ways to salvage the process. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian leadership, near despair about attaining a negotiated agreement with Israel on a two-state solution, is increasingly focusing on how to get international bodies and courts to declare a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The idea, being discussed in both formal and informal forums across the West Bank, is to appeal to the United Nations, the International Court of Justice and the signatories of the Geneva Conventions for opposition to Israeli settlements and occupation and ultimately a kind of global assertion of Palestinian statehood that will tie Israel's hands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration believes it has persuaded Arab states not to scuttle the fledgling Middle East peace negotiations, officials said Thursday, despite the Israeli government's refusal to freeze Jewish settlements and a vow by the Palestinians to walk away if Israel did not. With the Arab League's meeting on Friday expected to deliver a pivotal decision on the future of the talks, the United States has appealed to Jordan and other Arab nations to stop short of pushing the Palestinians to break off the negotiations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- When President Obama reopened face-to-face talks between the Israelis and Palestinians last month, he pledged that his administration would hold their hands but warned, ''The United States cannot impose an agreement, and we cannot want it more than the parties themselves.'' With the negotiations deadlocked over the issue of Jewish settlements, several veterans of Middle East peacemaking said Mr. Obama's warning had come true -- only weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, agreed to sit down. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian leadership said Saturday that four-week-old direct talks with Israel should be suspended if Jewish settlement construction resumed in the West Bank. It called on the international community to pressure Israel to stop the building but withheld a final decision on the talks until an Arab League meeting on Friday. A statement issued after a meeting of about 35 Palestinian leaders -- the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the central committee of the main Fatah movement and a handful of others -- held at the compound of the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, said that Israel was responsible for the deadlock. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is trying to cajole the Israeli government into a 60-day renewal of the freeze on Jewish settlement building by offering it security guarantees, ranging from military hardware to support for a long-term Israeli presence in the strategically sensitive Jordan Valley, according to lawmakers and other officials briefed on the proposals. But with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so far resisting the administration's entreaties, the United States is also weighing a fallback plan, officials said, that could involve reaching out to the Palestinians with a pledge to formally endorse one of their central demands for the borders of a future Palestinian state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

UNITED NATIONS -- If the United NationsGeneral Assembly often serves as a stage for ambitious countries to project a new image, none has grabbed that opportunity this year with as much vigor as Turkey. In a flurry of speeches and meetings -- and one meeting that did not happen -- the Turkish president, Abdullah Gul, defended his country's close ties to Iran, proclaimed Turkey's intention to become a leader in the Muslim world, and spurned an attempt to mend fences with Israel over its deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

JERUSALEM -- Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians shifted to home turf here on Wednesday, amid a rain of mortar shells on southern Israel and with no sign that the two sides had broken an impasse over Israel's moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements. In a gesture to the Israelis, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, traveled to Jerusalem for a two-hour meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at his official residence, and Mr. Netanyahu returned the favor by welcoming him with a Palestinian flag. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt -- The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority held more than two hours of face-to-face peace talks in this Red Sea resort on Tuesday, delving into several of the core issues that divide the two sides but not breaking an impasse over Jewish settlements. President Obama's special representative, George J. Mitchell, said he was encouraged by the overall direction of the talks, but declined to say whether the two sides had made any progress on a dispute over Israel's moratorium on settlement construction, which is scheduled to expire on Sept. 26. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- For much of her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been less an architect than an advocate for the Obama administration's Middle East policy. With the resumption of direct talks last week, she now has no choice but to plunge into the rough and tumble of peacemaking. Mrs. Clinton will be in the thick of the negotiations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, when they meet on Sept. 14 in Egypt. Her role, several officials say, will be to take over from the administration's special envoy, George J. Mitchell, when the two sides run into serious obstacles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Israeli and Palestinian negotiators cleared the first hurdle on Thursday in their elusive quest for Middle East peace: they agreed to keep talking, two weeks from now in Egypt. But on a richly choreographed day of diplomacy, filled with solemn promises to tackle the tough issues dividing them, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders did not confront the one issue that could sink these talks in three weeks: whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will extend a moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama began his Middle East peace initiative on Wednesday, as the Israeli and Palestinian leaders committed to work to end the conflict that has endured for six decades. In a remarkable tableau at the White House, Mr. Obama, flanked by the leaders of Israel, the Palestinians and the only two Arab states with whom Israel has made peace, vowed to do everything within his power in the next year to achieve the comprehensive agreement that has eluded negotiators since Israel was established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]