It's a Quinnipiac poll commissioned by CNN, so you know it oversamples Democrats. But the results speak for themselves: Only a third of Americans approve of the way President Obama's handling the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, according to a new national poll. A Quinnipiac University survey released Thursday morning indicates that 35 percent of the public gives the preside...

Gordon Brown urged Israel to make key concessions to the Palestinians in speech to Knesset.

Now that the midterms are approaching their conclusion, the Obama Administration is stepping up pressure on Israel, as I predicted. The latest outrage? The US is pushing Israel to lease parts of Jerusalem from the 'Palestinians' - who don't own it! According to Asharq al-Awsat the US wants Israel to lease the Jerusalem neighborhoods of French Hill, Ramat Eshkol and other Jerusalem n...

It is 4 months since the murderous attacks by Israel on Gaza which killed 1440 Palestinians. The issue has not gone away, Israel is still a racist Zionist state intent on regional domination and the Palestinians are still a persecuted people. Today a May Day march by 250 Palestinian workers in the...

I have frequently compared Israel as a state to apartheid South Africa. Citizens of the country are defined and confined by race. it is not just that all ethnic Jews, wherever they were born, have a right to live in Israel whereas many ethnic Palestinians who were actually born in Israel do not. Jews in Israel have a right of immigration for their spouses; arabs in Israel do not. Arab Israelis are...

An opinion poll carried out by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center shows that support for Hamas amongst Palestinians has grown since Israel's invasion of Gaza.Hamas would get 28.6 per cent of the vote compared with 27.9 per cent for...

Well, no big surpise to read that Israel has drawn fire regarding its human rights record today at a United Nations forum where its neighbours accused it of committing systematic violations against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Delegations from Syria, Egypt and Iran raised concerns about Israel's security wall, its detentions of young Palestinians, and what they called "illegal" Jew...

The devastating air assault on the Gaza Strip which began on 27 December, and the ground invasion that followed, are the latest stages in the unequal war between the state of Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement, better known by the acronym Hamas. The onslaught has so far led to the deaths of more than 600 Palestinians, many of them children, including those killed in an air strike on the

It wasn't long ago that this blog looked at the Middle-East and in particular Israel. At that point, it was a case of waiting for Livni to be elected. Now it seems to be sliding into chaos again. Those supporting the Palestinians I find interesting - what do they say to this nonchalant announcement: Hamas militants in Gaza fired several rockets into southern Israel today, while Israel kept it...

Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu finally offered the 'Palestinians' an extension of the building freeze in Judea and Samaria (AKA The West Bank) in order to get the peace talks moving again. He asked for only one thing in return - that the Palestinians recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. The 'Palestinians' turned him down flat. Senior Palestinian Authority negoti...