Olmert to Bush: Israel intent on achieving peace deal this year
Posted 11/6/08

Egypt to host 'Annapolis 2' peace summit in November
An international summit is to be held in Egypt in November, with representatives from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the members of the Quartet - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations. According to a senior official in Jerusalem, the Israeli and PA participants will brief the Quartet over progress made in the ongoing peace talks.
Posted 10/29/08

Israel's Netanyahu outlines alternative peace plan
Opposition leader and likely next prime minister says he will shelf creation of Palestinian state, focus instead on financial prosperity
Posted 10/13/08

Egypt to host 'Annapolis II' peace summit
Another final effort by Bush Admin to get Israeli-Arab peace deal; Israel rejects Rice demand that it present list of concessions
Posted 10/6/08

Olmert, Livni holding separate talks with Palestinians
Lame duck prime minister and his would-be replacement in uncoordinated individual efforts to secure peace deal with PA
Posted 10/6/08

Int'l community tries to remove Israelis from peace process
Middle East Quartet demands Israelis be kept in the dark on negotiations, that even tentative Israeli offers be made binding
Posted 9/30/08

US continues last-ditch effort for Israeli-Palestinian deal
Bush Admin's security coordinator to meet with two sides to hammer out definition of Israel's security needs
Posted 9/9/08

Olmert in last ditch effort to meet (most) Palestinian demands
Outgoing Israeli PM offers to surrender 93 percent of Judea and Samaria, and provide free passage through Israel to Gaza
Posted 8/18/08

Israelis fed up with Palestinian truce violations
Two more mortar shells fired at southern Israel on Sunday; Kassam rocket strikes near Israeli community on Saturday
Posted 7/15/08

Olmert: 'Peace Deal with PA Now Closer than Ever'
Posted 7/15/08

Arabs confident Obama will birth 'Palestine'
Senior Palestinian Authority minister says assumption in Ramallah is that Obama will win, and will immediately establishment 'Palestine'
Posted 7/7/08

Peres finally gets it: Peace not possible with Palestinian Authority
Israeli president tells dinner party guests, including Jordanian envoy, that real peace impossible with Mahmoud Abbas' regime
Posted 7/7/08

Hamas posts 1,000 sentries to block Gaza missile fire on Israel
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Palestinian Hamas’ armed wing, determined to keep fellow terrorist groups from violating the ceasefire with Israel, has in the last two days deployed a string of 1,000 sentries and monitors at the missile sites of the northern Gaza towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya.
Posted 7/2/08

'Olmert says peace document likely this year'
A temporary document outlining the general principles of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement can be expected to be compiled by the end of the year, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly told French President Nicolas Sarkorzy on Sunday night.
Posted 6/25/08

Netanyahu will nix peace deal signed by Olmert
Opposition leader says next election, which could be soon, will be referendum on Olmert's peace policies, and victory will be mandate to overturn any deals with Abbas' PA
Posted 4/21/08

The Poster That Awaits US President Bush in Jerusalem
Posted 1/4/08

EU foreign ministers gather as Rome treaty clock ticks down
Posted 9/10/07

President Bush referred to Israel's modern rule over the lands God gave her through Abraham as an "occupation
" 'The Israelis must do their part. They must show the world that they are ready to begin -- to bring an end to the occupation that began in 1967 through a negotiated settlement. This settlement will establish Palestine as a Palestinian homeland, just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people."
Posted 12/3/07

Peres still sees peace just around the corner
Israeli president says talks based on economic potential can result in outline for final peace deal before November summit in Washington
Posted 8/27/07

'Secret' plan would give Palestinians West Bank
Peres' plan calls for Israel to hand 97-percent of the West Bank over to Abbas, with Israel retaining a small number of the territory's Jewish communities. In exchange for Israel keeping some land, the Jewish state will give the PA control of Arab Israeli cities north of Tel Aviv which, together with the evacuated West Bank territory, would amount to the equivalent of 100 percent of the West Bank.
Posted 8/15/07

Dangerous Middle East Pact Signed
U.S. Secretary of State Rice wrote her signature alongside those of Egypt, Jordan, and six Persian Gulf states endorsing the 2002 Saudi Arabian plan as a foundation for Middle East peace.
Posted 8/8/07

From Their Own Lips
While as a 'Palestinian', I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva, and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of 'Palestine', we will not wait even a minute to unite 'Palestine' and Jordan."
Posted 8/8/07

Olmert tells Abbas he's ready for Palestine
Israeli PM eager to start talks on birthing Palestine on ancient Jewish lands, believes deal will bolster Abbas against Hamas
Posted 8/8/07

Olmert to comply with 100% of Palestinian land demands
Israeli PM reportedly adopts plan to swap territory with Palestinians allowing creation of Arab state on lands equal to all of those liberated in 1967
Posted 8/8/07

Olmert to Meet With Abbas to Kick Start Summit
An official in the Prime Minister's Office said the summit's agenda would include for the first time issues connected to a declaration of principles on a final settlement agreement.
Posted 8/8/07

U.S. Calls for Major Middle East Peace Summit
On July 16, U.S. President George W. Bush called for a Middle East peace conference this fall to be led by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and include Arabs, Israelis, and regional neighbors who support creation of an Arab state on Jewish land.
Posted 8/8/07

Abbas: Mideast peace can pacify 'all flash points in the world'
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said a resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict would pacify all major conflicts around the world.
Posted 4/25/07

Ahmed, Muhammad and Mahmoud
Though Israel says it will never talk with a terrorist organization that refuses to recognize its right to exist, the fact is that it already has done so in what is known as “The Oslo Accords.”
Posted 4/4/07

American Evangelicals divide over Israel
Umbrella group headed by John Hagee demands Bush stop trying to divide Israel; opposing Evangelicals openly back "two-state solution"
Posted 8/6/07

Arab League to talk peace in Jerusalem
An Arab League delegation, comprising the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan, will visit Israel in the coming weeks to discuss the Arab peace initiative. The Arab League's decision to dispatch the team - a groundbreaking development in Arab-Israeli affairs - was made during Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's visit to Cairo yesterday.
Posted 5/15/07

Blair Says Israeli-Palestinian Peace On The Horizon
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday that the Middle East peace process was about to receive a major jump start resulting in significant progress toward a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. The AP quoted Blair as saying in an interview with BBC Radio that "over the next few weeks I think there will be some real movement" on the international community's "obligation...to put forward a peace process that can work and try and take that forward."
Posted 2/8/07

Britain won't let rejection of Israel prevent birth of Palestine
House of Lords urges rest of Europe to take softer approach to Hamas, not let its violent positions "scupper progress" towards Palestine
Posted 7/25/07

Bush puts shoulder to Mideast 'peace' wheel
US President George W. Bush pledged, on winning his second term in office, that he would do everything in his power to make the creation of a Palestinian state possible before leaving the White House at the end of next year.
Posted 8/6/07

China calls on Israel, Palestinians to resume talks
China's special envoy to the Middle East called on the Palestinian government on Friday to release captured Israeli soldiers to make way for the resumption of talks and build momentum towards peace in the region. Envoy Sun Bigan made the comments following a trip to Israel, the Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, where he pushed all parties to engage in peace talks.
Posted 4/25/07

Civil War Dashes Hopes of Palestinian State
Leading Palestinian officials admit that Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza has all but dashed any realistic hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state.
Posted 8/6/07

EU Leaders Meet To Seek Ways Bolster Mideast Negotiations
European Union foreign ministers sought ways to bolster the Middle East peace process Monday and were to push Israeli and Palestinian leaders to live up to commitments to resume negotiations after six years of violence and stalemate.
Posted 1/23/07

EU Working Hard For Mid-East Peace
The agreement on a Palestinian national unity government coincides with a new push for peace in the Middle East by the European Union. Last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel went on a four-day tour of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and some of the gulf states.
Posted 2/13/07

EU's New Rome Treaty 'cut and pasted' from old
Posted 8/3/07 

EU's Solana favors jump to "endgame" in Middle East
The European Union joined Egypt, Jordan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday in suggesting that Middle East peace talks move straight to the disputes at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. For the past few years, peace attempts such as the "road map" of 2003 have concentrated on small confidence-building measures, leaving aside bigger questions such as the status of Jerusalem, the borders of a Palestinian state and refugees.
Posted 1/19/07

Ex-Israeli army chief: Two-state solution is dead
Ya'alon points to Hamas takeover of Gaza as proof that Israeli concessions do not bolster the "moderates," but rather strengthen the extremists
Posted 7/9/07

From No 10 to the Middle East: Blair gets a new job
Tony Blair has landed a major diplomatic job as the international Middle East peace envoy, responsible for preparing the Palestinians for negotiations with Israel. His role, to be announced today, will be largely to work with the Palestinians over security, economy and governance.
Posted 6/27/07

Germany's Merkel In Saudi For Mideast Talks
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on the second leg of a Middle East tour aimed at coordinating efforts to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.The focus of their talks was on "developments in the Palestinian question and the situation in Iraq", as well as boosting Saudi-German cooperation, said the official news agency SPA.
Posted 2/6/07

Hamas Offers Truce Deal Over Palestine
Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said tonight that his Hamas group would be willing to accept a temporary Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in exchange for a 10-year truce with Israel. His comments, reiterating Hamas policy, came as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was to meet Hamas’ supreme leader Khaled Mashaal in Syria to discuss ways to form a coalition government and end international sanctions on the Palestinians.
Posted 1/22/07

I'll consider summit with Arab leaders, PM tells UN chief
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will leave Israel on Tuesday for the Arab leaders' summit in Riyadh, where he is expected tell Saudi King Abdullah that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is willing to consider a peace summit between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the moderate Arab countries.
Posted 3/29/07

Israel, Palestinian Leaders Agree To Regular Talks
Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to hold confidence-building talks every two weeks that could eventually lead to discussions on a Palestinian state, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
Posted 3/29/07

Israel, U.S. may shun Palestinian gov't
The U.S. and Israel agreed ahead of a three-way meeting with the Palestinians to shun any new Palestinian government that does not renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept existing peace agreements, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday.
Posted 02/20/07

Israel Again Impatient to Make Peace - Even Without Partner
The Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministries have set up a joint task force to prepare a plan for another one-sided disengagement - this time, from Judea and Samaria.
Posted 1/23/07

Israel not accepting or rejecting Mecca deal, Olmert says
Vice Premier Shimon Peres called on the government being established in the PA to exert every effort to accommodate to the Road Map, "The only document accepted by the entire world."
Posted 2/13/07

Israel Pushing For Change In Saudi Peace Initiative: Report
Israel is pushing for changes in the Saudi Arabian peace initiative of 2002, which promises recognition of the Jewish state by Arab neighbouring states in return for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, the Israeli Ha'aretz daily reported Friday.Israel wants the Arab League to adopt an "improved version" of the plan at its next Summit in Riyadh later this month, which would have a "softer" approach toward the Palestinian refugee issue.
Posted 3/5/07

Israel pushing to improve Saudi peace initiative ahead of Riyadh summit
Israel is expecting the Arab League to adopt an improved version of the Saudi peace plan at a summit meeting called for the end of this month in Riyadh, senior government sources told Haaretz on Thursday.
Posted 3/12/07

Israel the enemy of the Palestinians, says Jordanian king
Abdullah issues veiled threat that Israel will not have security until it surrenders to Arab land demands
Posted 7/5/07

Israel's Pre-1967 Borders & Post-1967 Borders
Posted 7/30/07

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Jordan's King Abdullah II will meet today... to discuss peace
Posted 5/16/07

Israelis, Palestinians applaud Japan-backed economic development plan
Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials applauded a Japanese plan to promote economic cooperation and development in their region Wednesday, calling the proposal a step toward rejuvenating the Middle East peace process.Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat were in Tokyo to talk about details of Japan's proposed "Corridor for Peace and Prosperity," an economic revival plan aimed at boosting the local economy.Also attending was Farouk Kasrawi, special adviser to Jordan's King Abdullah II.
Posted 3/19/07

It Is Right Time To Launch Initiative On Settlement Of Peace In The Region, Musharraf
Musharraf stated that he was paying a visit to Turkey to discuss settlement of peace in the Islam world and the region, noting that it was the right period of time to resolve especially Palestinian issue.
Posted 2/12/07

Jordan king warns of war if Arab plan fails
A failure of a recently revived Arab plan for peace with Israel could lead to a new conflict in the region, Jordan's King Abdullah II warned in an interview published on Thursday. "We warn against the eruption of a war in the region if progress is not achieved in the peace process," he told Egypt's top-selling government-owned newspaper Al-Ahram.
Posted 5/15/07

Jordan seeks Israel backing for Arab peace bid
The peace plan, revived at an Arab summit in March, offers Israel full normalisation of ties in exchange for a full withdrawal from Arab land seized in 1967, the creation of a Palestinian state and the return of Palestinian refugee
Posted 5/17/07

Jordanian King concerned no solution for Mideast crisis
King Abdullah of Jordan told the British newspaper Times in an interview that "the world was losing hope for establishing peace in the Middle East and there is danger that a solution to the crisis between Israel and the Arab countries will never be found. "Creating a Palestinian state is becoming less realistic owing to the settlements and the separation fence.. The Palestinians will be left not with a state but with "Swiss cheese" – a territory full of holes," Abdullah said.
Posted 5/21/07

King of Jordan Urges Middle East Peace This Year
The Middle East will face "new disasters" unless a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is found in 2007, warned Jordan's King Abdullah warned. "The Palestinian issue is at the core of the conflict in the region and we hope that the international community realises that regional issues are tied together," he told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
Posted 1/25/07

Middle East Quartet to meet in Lisbon next week
The Quartet of Middle East mediators will meet in Lisbon on July 19 at what could be former Prime Minister Tony Blair's first meeting as the group's envoy, a Portuguese Foreign Ministry source said on Friday.
Posted 7/16/07

Musharaf volunteers to help bring peace to Middle East
Pakistan took initiative Saturday to bring about stability to the Middle East - by first attempting to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Posted 4/25/07

Netanyahu: Economy, not land, as basis for peace
Prime ministerial hopeful says 2005 withdrawal from Gaza proved that Israeli land concessions bolster Islamic terrorism
Posted 7/27/07

New President Peres - Direct talks if Syria wants peace
Shimon Peres, Israel's newly inaugurated president, Thursday made good on his pledge not to keep out of politics (as Israel's figurehead presidents are supposed to do) but to continue to push forward the "peace" process that millions of Israelis oppose.
Posted 7/20/07

No Negotiations Regarding Mt. Zion
Despite the repeated requests by the Vatican, Edry said that Israel views the area as totally Israel and will not hold talks on the matter.
Posted 2/8/07

Olmert, Abbas hold talks at U.S. behest
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas launched a U.S.-initiated series of meetings on Sunday, bypassing some of the most contentious issues of the Middle East conflict.
Posted 4/18/07

Olmert, Abbas to meet next week
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet next week, their offices said Tuesday, and efforts to halt the latest convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence are sure to dominate the agenda.
Posted 5/30/07

Olmert, Rice, and Abbas to meet at Tripartite summit on Monday
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Monday in a three-way summit at the David's Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem. The summit will begin at 10:00 A.M., starting with a work meeting between the three, and will be followed by a lunch meeting, in which Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Vice Premier Shimon Peres will participate. Rice will give a statement to the press at the end of the event.  NOTE: For you [5] Doves who remember the word "Triumvirate" that the Lord gave me several years ago... here we go again!!!
Posted 02/20/07

Olmert held secret talks on West Bank
Struggling to stay in office, PM set to negotiate state with Palestinians
Posted 5/14/07

Olmert praises Saudi initiative
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is satisfied with the “active role” Saudi Arabia is playing in the Middle East peace process. Olmert told Time Magazine that the 2002 Saudi initiative, revived by the Arab Quartet, is a “very interesting approach.”
Posted 4/3/07

Olmert Reiterates Stance to Give Away Judea and Samaria,
Posted 7/25/07

Olmert says ready for talks based on Saudi plan
Israel said on Monday it was ready to start talks based on a Saudi Arabian land-for-peace initiative but made clear it wanted Riyadh and other Arab League members with no formal ties to the Jewish state to take part.
Posted 4/18/07

Olmert to invite King Abdullah II to Israel
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to invite Jordan's King Abdullah II to visit Israel when the two meet later today. Vice Premier Shimon Peres will accompany Olmert on the trip, the two will first attend a Nobel Prize laureate conference in Petra and will then meet with the king in Aqaba later in the day.
Posted 5/17/07

Pakistan, Turkey in Mideast Peace Effort
Pakistan and Turkey have agreed to work together to inject new life into Middle East peace efforts, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Monday."Turkey and Pakistan are in full agreement to act together," Musharraf told a joint news conference with Turkish counterpart Ahmet Necdet Sezer. "We are aiming to contribute to efforts to bring peace to our region, to the world and the Muslim world."
Posted 2/8/07

Peace at any Price…even if it is a false peace
Since the State of Israel was founded in 1948 it has been striving for peace. But three wars to defend its right to exist (the War of Independence in 1948; the Six Day War in 1967; and the Yom Kippur War in 1973) as well as the wars in between (the Sinai Campaign in 1956 and the Lebanon War in 1982) have ensured that there has been no peace for Israelis.
Posted 4/2/07

Peace Bribe
Avi Shaked has made a great fortune from his internet gambling sites. Avi Shaked is also a committed socialist and is all for peace. A couple of weeks ago he had a brilliant idea. He will create a fund that will give one billion dollars to the Palestinians if they will make peace with Israel.
Posted 4/4/07

Peres: Israel to present counter-proposal to Arab peace plan
The government of Israel will present a counter-proposal to the Arab peace initiative recently reaffirmed by the Arab League, Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Sunday during a panel debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the World Economic Forum in Jordan.
Posted 5/22/07

Peres: Saudi peace proposal needs negotiation
A revived Mideast peace proposal by Saudi Arabia represents progress in the Arab position, but all its elements need to be fully negotiated, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Tuesday.
Posted 3/14/07

Peretz: The Saudi initiative could be breakthrough 
"I have already said that the Saudi initiative should be looked in to more seriously. It could be the breakthrough we need for a political process in the region," Defense Minister Amir Peretz said at the AIPAC conference in Washington.
Posted 3/14/07

PM: I'm ready to negotiate Saudi peace plan with Arab leaders
While visiting Jordan Tuesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert invited 22 leaders of Arab nations to convene and invite Israel to negotiate the Saudi peace plan without preconditions. Olmert added that if they were willing to invite him somewhere for talks, then "I'm ready to come."
Posted 5/17/07

PM confirms intention to negotiate with Abbas on formation of Palestinian state
How much longer can it be before confirmation of the Saudi Peace Plan???
Olmert was responding to a Haaretz report, according to which he offered to hold negotiations toward an "Agreement of Principles" for the establishment of a Palestinian state comprised of the Gaza Strip and most of the West Bank.
Posted 7/27/07

Quartet Tackles How To Revive Mideast Peace
The United States sought on Thursday to bolster support for an aid blockade against the Palestinian Authority and win backing for U.S. efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Posted 2/2/07

Rice to hold talks with Merkel on Middle East peace
Rice said on Wednesday that the international quartet for Middle East peace would meet in Washington next month, in line with German calls to seize a rare opportunity to push the process forward again amid promising signs in the region.
Posted 1/19/07

Senior Israeli official: Peace agreement with Palestinians can be in hand within two years
Israel and the Palestinians can wrap up a final peace deal within two years, Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said Thursday, becoming the first senior Israeli official to propose a timeline for long-stalled peace talks.
Posted 1/19/07

'Seize Moment' For Mideast Peace
WORLD leaders would be guilty of "gross dereliction" not to use an opportunity in the Middle East to push forward peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said today.
Posted 2/8/07

Siniora to Israel: Adopt Saudi peace plan, the only realistic path to peace
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora called on Israel Friday to adopt the Saudi peace initiative that calls for normalized ties between Israel and the Arab world in return for a full Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Posted 5/15/07

Talks for Rice, Olmert and Abbas
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are to meet soon for a three-way summit.
Posted 1/16/06

UAE and Germany in ME peace push
Merkel briefed Shaikh Khalifa about Germany’s new initiative that it wants to present during its presidency of the European Union to revive the Middle East peace process.
Posted 2/7/07

US, Germany Relaunch Mideast Quartet
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the international quartet for Middle East peace would meet next month, calling the time ripe for a fresh initiative.
Posted 1/19/07

Woe to Those Who Divide My Land
Isn’t it going too far to chide all the nations who want to divide the Land of Israel into a Jewish state and a Palestinian state? After all, they are only trying to finally achieve peace in the Middle East through their peace initiatives.
Posted 6/21/07

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