Touching Rabin in 2015.
Amir Cohen/Reuters
Twenty years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin – the man who ushered in the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians – was assassinated. Today’s Israel is a very different place.
Reuters/Ammar Awad
As Israel marked the 20th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, fears of another surge in violence were as high as ever.
The amazing alternative world of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Reuters/Sebastian Scheiner
The Israeli PM’s ‘big lie’ about Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was of a piece with Netanyahu’s history of making false and misleading claims.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, met with Adolf Hitler in 1941.
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1987-004-09A, Amin al Husseini und Adolf Hitler" by Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann
The Israeli prime minister’s comments that an Arab leader convinced Hitler to carry out the Holocaust are a distortion of history.
Reuters/Amir Cohen
Violence has become a daily occurrence in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank and the body count is rising.
Despondent: Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN.
EPA/Andrew Gombert
In a grim week at the UN General Assembly, the key partners in the Middle East peace process made it clear they’ve lost patience.
Reuters/Mussa Qawasma
Israel’s extreme response to Palestinian protests is simply prolonging the cycle of violence.
Residents of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip watch a parade by the military wing of Hamas to mark the anniversary of the war with Israel.
AAP/Newzulu/Mhmed Ali
Although Hamas also wants a return to normalcy in the Gaza Strip, it is potentially a double-edged sword for the movement.
Getting ready for Congress.
Gary Cameron/Reuters
In an all-out promotional blitz, John Kerry spoke at a hastily arranged Q&A July 24 to a Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Five days later, he faced two less restrained audiences, testifying…
Not much of a weapons system.
EPA/Abed Al Haslhamoun
Israel’s official policy treats stone throwing as ‘a real mortal threat’. The question is, who to?
BDS protesters on the West Bank in May 2015.
EPA/Abed Al Haslhamoun
Israel’s prime minister is using boycott fears to distract attention from his government’s increasingly right-wing agenda.
Tough call: Benjamin Netanyahu and Naftali Bennett.
EPA/Abir Sultan
Benjamin Netanyahu has kept his government going by doing a deal with a party even more right-wing than his former allies. There could be trouble ahead.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas signs ICC Rome Statute last December.
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With the peace process derailed and the incoming Netanyahu administration promising zero tolerance to Palestine, joining the ICC sets a major cat among the pigeons.
‘Now I’m gladhanding you in droves’.
EPA/Topaz Luk
A startling election victory has delivered the Likud leader with a range of options and left the opposition in disarray.
‘Don’t look at him, François.’
EPA/Philippe Wojazer
The EU’s millions in aid to Palestinian territories has come to very little – and Netanyahu’s re-election demands a new approach.
By bringing together Arab political parties in the Joint List, Ayman Odeh has emerged as leader of the third-largest party in Israel.
EPA/Atef Safadi
The emergence of the Joint List as the third-largest party is evidence of both Israeli democracy and a growing awareness among the nation’s Arab citizens of their power to influence its direction.
Damage control: Netanyahu interviewed for NBC.
EPA/Amos Ben Gershom
Israel’s triumphant prime minister has always made a habit of testing alliances to breaking point. Has he gone too far this time?
He did it.
Nir Elias/Reuters
“Oy givalt, don’t scare me like that!” But that’s exactly what candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did in the last five days of the campaign. And it worked.
Victory all the sweeter for being thought unlikely.
EPA/Abir Sultan
The Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has won a dramatic victory in the Israeli election that few had predicted.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rival and Isaac Herzog are pictured together as billboards rotate.
Baz Ratner/Reuters
Today’s elections in Israel could be one of the most significant in the country’s recent history.