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Focuses on the position of the U.S. on the Israel and Palestine issue. Increasing violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; Efforts to improve the image of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat to gain U.S. confidence; Arguments in favor of a Palestinian state; Analysis of the economically viability of a Palestinian state; Increase in the number of Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip living in "ghastly condition".

The article presents a speech entitled "Israel: Through Fire and Water, Canada Will Stand With You" by Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, delivered to the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem on January 20, 2014. Topics of the speech include Canada's support of Israel, politics in the Middle East, anti-Semitism, and Israel's relationship with the United Nations (U.N.).

This article focuses on Iran's role in the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should take this opportunity to negotiate with Iran face-to-face. Hezbollah has been damaged in this war and Iran, desperate to avoid losing Hezbollah as an effective surrogate, may be willing to sit down with Israel and negotiate.

War has exploded in the tinder box of the Middle East. It seems unlikely that it will last long or spread far, but even if the fighting ends early, people will have witnessed a major disaster. Events of the last week brilliantly illuminate the moral bankruptcy to which a blind and slavish adherence to the discredited power politics of another age has brought the world at the end of the first post-war decade. For the problem of Israeli-Egyptian relations there is no panacea; but the present war will not make it any easier to find a workable solution.

The article presents the insights of several Middle East experts on how Israel will respond to the political struggles in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen. Natan Sharanksy says that tit is time for Israel to make peace with Palestine. Daniel C. Kurtzer says that Israel should look to its relationship with Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon. Shoshana Bryen says that the country should prioritize the safety and security of its people.

The article provides an analysis of the state of contemporary diplomatic relations between Israel and the Arab countries in the Middle East by focusing on the history on foreign relations in the region and the role of World Powers in enforcing treaties and negotiations. Some of the subjects considered include the failure of treaties between Israel made with Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat and Lebanon's President Bashir Gemayel, the geopolitics of decolonization in the Middle East after World War I, and Israel's reliance on both U.S. and European aid.

Explains the influence of the United States on the foreign policies of Israel and Israeli government. Details on how the special relationship between Israel and the U.S. was developed; Discussion on why Israel always support U.S. policies in the Middle East; Implications of U.S. plan to invade Iraq to the national security of Israel.

Views the political events that are happening in the Middle East as of July 2002. Information on the suicide bombing at a billiards hall in Rishon Lezion, Israel on May 7, 2002; Different perspectives by the U.S. and Israel about peace negotiations; Focus of the meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2002.

Presents Egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa's views on the Middle East. Pan-Arab free trade; Role of Egypt in the Middle East peace process; Transfer of land from Israel to Palestine; Human rights in Arab countries.

This article discusses the challenges facing the Israeli and Palestinian governments in their efforts to find a lasting settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has prodded the Israelis and the Palestinians to support the road map to a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is agreeable to the solution. However, his own party and government is strongly opposed to a two-state solution. Similar problem exist in the Palestinian side.

The article focuses on the politics and government in the Middle East. It has been a remarkable five years in the Middle East. Beginning in October 1991, when Arabs and Israelis first met face to face in Madrid, it went on to include two Israeli-Palestine Liberation Organization accords, an Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, two grand regional economic conferences, the repeal by the United Nations General Assembly of the 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism, serious peace negotiations between Israel and Syria, and decisions by several Arab states and many other governments around the world to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. For the first time in modern history, it did not sound foolish to speak of solving the Middle East problem. That era, if five years can be said to qualify as an era, is over. Several factors account for this abrupt end, not just the June 1996 election of a more conservative Israeli government. Indeed, the era of treaties in the Middle East might well have come to an end even if the Labor government had triumphed at the polls.

Discusses about relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Reasons that explains the tension between the two parties; How Israel copes with Arab rejectionism; Reason Westerners think that Arab rejectionism has waned.

Discusses the reconciliation process between Arabs and Israelis. Differences as main obstacle to the peace process; Madrid conference of 1991; American manipulations; Syrian commitment to a state of nonbelligerency; Israeli government-propagated myths; Yitzhak Rabin's negotiating strategy; Advocates of peace in the Israeli government.

Examines the factors which hinder the negotiation of peace between Syria and Israel as of August 1994. Significance of the peace agreement between Syria and Israel; Political costs of peace to both countries; Measure taken by the U.S. to help in the negotiation for a peace agreement between the two countries.

The article discusses efforts to broker a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East as of October 2013, focusing on the Oslo accords peace-related meetings which culminated in a diplomatic agreement which was signed by then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on September 13, 1993 in the U.S. Terrorist attacks in Israel are mentioned, along with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's attempt to facilitate Middle Eastern peace talks.

The article reports that Ehud Olmert, who became Israel's prime minister when his Kadima party won the March 28, 2006 election, now faces the problem to force the Palestinians to give up their struggle for independence. Olmert's aim is to unilaterally define Israel's borders in a way that will achieve Israel's permanent separation from the Palestinians. Olmert's version of separation means permanently confining West Bank Palestinians behind walls and checkpoints, where they would have no control over their borders, their land or their water, and would be entirely dependent on Israel for their economic survival.

The article reports on the political developments in the Middle East countries. In elections widely lauded to be a test of the fledgling Palestinian democracy and future political trends, 84 municipal districts held their first independent, and largely unimpeded, elections since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began in 1967. In most cases Fatah, the ruling party of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was squared off against the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, a longtime rival in the military struggle against Israel. INSET: THE WITHDRAWAL.

Presents several letters sent by readers of the periodical "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs." Issues related to the fate of Arab Jews; Political conditions of Israel; Economic conditions of Iraq.

Looks at the tragic turn that Israel's campaign against Palestinian militants took last week. Intense hunt for the tunnels Palestinians use to smuggle weapons into Rafah in the Gaza Strip; Warning shots fired by Israeli commanders that killed seven people; International outrage at the deaths even by the United States, Israel's staunchest ally; Announcement by Israel that it wants to pull its troops out of Rafah.

Discusses developments in United States politics following President Jimmy Carter's success in brokering and mediating a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. America's commitments to Israel about the action to take if Egypt fails to meet terms of the treaty; Senator William Proxmire's concern about the monetary costs of American economic assistance to both countries; Success of Carter's Middle East diplomacy as a tribute to his doggedness; Anti-treaty demonstrations by Arab and Iranian students on the White House lawn.

Presents a report on the political crisis in the Middle East. Information about the October 8, 1990 clash between Israeli police and Arabs that may give Iraqi President Saddam Hussein the opening he has been looking for to link his confrontation with the U.S. in the gulf with Israel's occupation of Arab lands; Signs of a fraying alliance that could increase the chances for war; Discussion on the role of the U.S. President George Bush in the entangle.

Tension in the Middle East has diminished, thanks to Dag Hammerskjold's mission and last week's conciliatory statement by the Russians. Yet it would be a mistake to think that any of the basic issues have been resolved. Hammerskjold has pro tem averted war. He has not made peace. Egypt still asserts its belligerent rights. The Suez Canal remains closed to Israel shipping. The fate of the Arab refugees has not been settled. The preponderance of modern arms is shifting to Cairo. The borders remain provocations rather than barriers to military adventure and the great power play for oil continues.

The article presents information related to the political crisis in the Middle East. The installation of a new Palestinian government, coupled with the simultaneous election of a new Knesset, offers an unparalleled opportunity to achieve peace in the region. As an early priority, the new Palestinian leadership should publicly announce its support for the Arab League's Beirut Declaration of March 2002, by which all Arab states offered Israel peace and normal diplomatic and economic relations in return for Israel's compliance with international law by returning to its internationally recognized, pre-1967 borders.

This article presents news updates related to politics in the Middle East as of May 01, 2004. BBC has reported that Jordan is considering suing Israel in an effort to recover millions of dollars seized from banks in the West Bank city of Ramallah. On February 25, 2004 Israeli soldiers conducted a raid of several Ramallah banks, including branches of the Arab Bank and the Cairo-Amman Bank, allegedly to cut off funding for Palestinian militants. Lebanese police conducted a broad anti-drug raid, during which they wounded a suspected king pin in a gun fight and arrested 34 other suspects. The drug raid was aimed to clean all parts of Lebanon of the traffickers who are poisoning society.

Criticizes Rosemary and Hermann Ruether, authors of the book 'The Wrath of Jonah' which deals with the problem besetting the state of Israel and the creation of the state of Palestine in the Middle East. Bias of the authors in their presentation of the problems of the Palestinian people as they related to the interest of Israel as a nation; Risk of those who would advocate for the existence of the state of Israel and the emergence of a Palestinian state.

Focuses on the Mitchell Commission's report on the Middle East, published on May 21, 2001. Leadership of the committee by former United States Senator George Mitchell; Confidence-building measures to prevent Palestinian terrorism and punish perpetrators; Recommendation of a ban on Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and Gaza; Newspaper editorials in Europe criticizing Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's settlement policy.

Reports political developments in the Middle East. Includes details on the narrow survival of Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak in the Knesset no-confidence vote; Signal of the vote for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process; Views of the European press on the death of Syrian president Hafez Assad; State visit of Algerian President Abdelaziz to France.

Discusses recent changes in Middle Eastern politics. Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995; Election of Benjamin Netanhayu as Israeli Prime Minister; Establishment of Palestinian autonomy under Yassir Arafat; Growing resentment of Palestinians towards Arafat; Attitude of Arab leaders towards Netanyahu's rise to power.

Considers how Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin have become prisoners of the peace process they launched in September, 1993. Vicious cycle of killings that has stalled the process; Examples of violence; Assessment of blame. INSET: `We intend to go ahead' (Shimon Peres), by Eric Silver.

Presents the remarks made by the US Secretary of State and the Israeli Prime Minister following a meeting at the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 9, 1995. Brief history of the Middle East peace process; Negotiations between Israel and Syria and Israel and Lebanon; Christopher's meeting with Egyptian President Mubarak.

Features the opening statement made by the US Secretary of State at a press conference following his meeting with Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad in Damascus, Syria, on March 14, 1995. Current developments in the Middle East peace process; Discussions between Israel and Syria; The Secretary's objectives during his meeting with al-Asad.