While the Israel-Hamas war has come to a inconclusive end, the ongoing Palestinian civil war shows no sign of abating. There had been some thought that the Israeli offensive in Gaza could lead Hamas and Fatah to find a common cause against their shared enemy. Instead, suspicion between the two factions appears to be at an all-time high. Over the weekend, Hamas accused Palestinian Authority Preside...

Israel's assault on Gaza is causing horrendous loss of life, is the use of overwhelming and disproportionate force as collective punishment against the Palestinian people and should be condemned across the world, and every pressure should be put on the Israeli government to end this now and properly pursue the two-state solution (which all parties know is the only workable solution), regardle...

Should Israel negotiate with Hamas? In a post last week I questioned Sir Jeremy Greenstock's claim that Hamas has 'no "charter" for the destruction of Israel in its political programme'. I cited in opposition to that claim Hamas's actual Charter...

When it comes to the conflict between Israel and "Palestinians", the liberal consensus is that a "Two State Solution" is the best way forward. However, I was pleased to read that there is a 23 State solution. This is from Steven Plaut... "I call it the 23-state solution. The Arabs get to keep the 22 states they already have and the Jews keep the one state they have. The Palestinians get no state. ...

There is a strange tendency when viewing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute to imagine that because might does not make right it must make wrong. By this logic, the fact that Israel can inflict greater damage on Hamas than Hamas can on Israel makes Israel the aggressor. But in reality, it is Hamas who is responsible for this latest round of violence. It is Hamas who never fully implemented the six mo...

Ah yes...Dr. Susan Powers, Obma's presumptive Natonal Security Advisor's solution is to invade Israeli territory and 'impose a solution' to establish a second Arab Palestinian state, even if it means angering `a very powerful and influential US constituency' and creating half a million Jewish refugees. Nevertheless, I'm sure a lot of self-hating Jews will continue to ...

From a column by Amir Taheri:... Hamas... has closed Gaza to all Palestinian groups that have accepted a two-state solution.Amongst those many who urge upon us Hamas's legitimacy as having been democratically elected, it's surprising how little airtime they devote...

Two pieces have stimulated an unprecedented level of debate on Labourhome this holiday season. Israel massacres the innocent Israel defends her people Is the two-state solution dead? are the Gazans paying the price of electing a Hamas leadership? Is Israel committing a humanitarian atrocity? What should be British Government be doing about it? What are your thoughts on the crisis in Gaza?

The trouble with calling for a 'truce' between Israel and Hamas as Foreign Secretary David Milliband and numerous non governmental organisations now have is...the underlying assumption that if Israel and Palestinian groups such as Hamas can simply be made to...

More from Jeremy Greenstock on the question of engagement. in contrast to Jeffrey Goldberg, ("Hamas cannot be cajoled into moderation") the diplomat believes there's scope for negotiation: The more thoughtful strand of thinking in Hamas recognises the need for a political process and is ready to engage in the search for a durable solution to the conflict with Israel. It was open to ...