Thailand gives official recognition for Palestine

Thailand says it has recognized Palestine as an independent state.

Russia to back Palestinian UN bid for statehood

Russia's envoy to the United Nations says Moscow will back the Palestinian bid to secure statehood at the U.N.

EU split on Palestinian push for recognition

The European Union remains undecided whether to support the Palestinian push for recognition at the United Nations later this month, a top official said Thursday.

Palestinian team ousted in World Cup qualifier

The Palestinian soccer team played to a 2-2 tie with Thailand on Thursday, ending a World Cup qualifying campaign that had become a symbol of nation building.

Developing nations want climate aid for Palestine

Developing countries have asked the U.N. climate conference to accept Palestine as a participant and give it access to funding to fight global warming.

Europe set for key Palestine role

Europe, its global influence waning by the day, has long wished for more of a voice in a Middle Eastern diplomatic arena dominated by the U.S.

Egypt crisis spells trouble for Mideast peace

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has only recently and grudgingly accepted the idea of an independent Palestinian state next to Israel. With Egypt in flux, efforts to bring this about may soon go into deep freeze.

Ireland upgrades Palestinian territories relations

Ireland is upgrading its diplomatic relations with the Palestinian territories in recognition of progress being made by the Palestinian Authority, officials said Tuesday.

Peru recognizes Palestinian state

Peru has joined a growing number of South American countries in recognizing an independent and sovereign Palestinian state.

Brazil recognizes Palestinian state

Brazil says it has recognized the state of Palestine based on borders at the time of Israel's 1967 conquest of the West Bank.

Israelis mull leaving settlers in Palestine

It has become an article of faith in the Israeli-Palestinian equation: Israel's withdrawal from occupied lands must be accompanied by a removal of Jewish settlers.

Rare TV satire mocks Palestinian politicians

Palestine TV was once the boring channel that viewers skipped over while searching for entertainment. But this time, the state-run station has picked a winner — an irreverent comedy show that mocks and often bites the hand that feeds it: the government.

U.S.-trained Palestinian force is keen for action

In the live-fire exercise, everything was carefully choreographed — Palestinian commandos, faces blackened, stormed a hide-out in an abandoned building, "wounded" one gunman and "arrested" a second.

Palestine to play first match in home stadium

Palestine is set to play its first international soccer match on home soil.

Hamas captures Fatah security HQ in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas gunmen captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza, seizing control of a key prize in the bloody power struggle between the sides, Hamas and Fatah officials said.

Palestinian Film Poses Oscar Quandary

Before "Paradise Now" received its best foreign-language film nomination Tuesday, Academy Award executives debated a movie credit with rare geopolitical dimensions.

Residents said about 25 settlers, some of them carrying guns, set fire to wheat fields in the village of Orif, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.  

The Amnesty International 2012 annual report was released on Wednesday, detailing the violation of human rights worldwide. The report is highly critical of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, charging that the Israel Defense Forces frequently uses excessive, sometimes le …

Rabbi Brian Walt wrote:  A month ago, I was invited by American Jews for a Just Peace to give a talk in Boston in memory of Hilda Silverman z'l, a friend, congregant and passionate advocate for justice for Palestinians. In honor of Hilda, I wrote a talk that described my jou …

Rabbi Dovid Weiss spoke out against Zionism and the State of Israel to a scattered crowd of Cal State Long Beach students and Long Beach community members Tuesday.(May 3 2011)

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Ed Milliband, Jewish British leader of the British Labor Party Opposition describes himself as "The first Jewish leader of the Labour Party" in an essay in an issue of the New Statesman devoted to British Jewry.

Israel is corrupting our courts as they have corrupted our Legislative Branch.

The Israeli band “Izabo” did not reach the Eurovision finals, which will be held on Saturday. Their song, “Time,” did not make it through the first round of semi-finals on Tuesday.

Some 60 percent disagreed with the statement that Germany owed a special obligation to Israel after the Holocaust, while 65 percent said that Germany ought to recognize a Palestinian state.

It is against Jewish religious law to report a Jew to secular authorities without rabbinical oversight

Russia’s back-in-office President Vladimir Putin can be sure that he has a steadfast supporter in Rabbi Berel Lazar, the country’s Chief Rabbi and Head Shliach.

UK suffers from an Educational Apartheid System in which ordinary children are hugely disadvantaged as compared to those of the wealthy.

...they originate in “illegal settlement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories."

In response to decision by Press Complaints Commission, London's Foreign office says Israel's claim that that Jerusalem is its capital is not recognized by the U.K.

Police suspect organ-harvesting network operated mainly in Kosovo, Azerbaijan; probe was launched after Turkish man told authorities in Kosov he was 'thrown out to the street' following operation

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli human rights group released footage on Sunday of settlers firing on a Nablus village a day earlier, and called on Israel's military to investigate the assailants, as well as the army's role.

According to the information held by the police, the suspect engaged with both boys and girls, hundreds of instant messaging addresses were found on his computer. Judges at the Kfar Sava Magistrate's Court extended his arrest on Monday by eight days.

Rabbi Shteinman, leader of Lithuanian branch of ultra orthodox Jewry claims world was created for righteous, says nations have no principles

A 40-year-old high-tech executive from central Israel was arrested on suspicion of sexually harassing hundreds of young children aged 10-13 online over the past four years.   The suspect, who is known to the police as a pedophile, confessed to the acts during an interrogat …

The Knesset plenum on Monday passed in second and third reading a bill to amend the Income Tax Act, by which those who donate to settlements will enjoy tax benefits.

Among the refrains were "The Temple will be rebuilt, the mosque will be burned." The marchers also shouted that Arabs were "sons of whores" and applauded Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler who massacred 29 Muslim worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs during the Purim holida …

Committee also recommends the instatement of non-anonymous sperm donation and allowing married people to undergo fertility treatments with people other than their spouses and without their knowledge.

The removal of three humiliating shackles for Egyptians, the gas give-away scheme, the 1979 Camp David Accords and the US forced recognition of Israel, constitute a strategic national security objective for most of Egypt’s 82 million citizens. According to the results of  …