Israeli-Palestinian relations

Why Gadi Eisenkot should support Palestinian elections without promising statehood - opinion

There is a remarkably simple message that an Israeli leader could convey without promising a Palestinian state or accepting a particular negotiating formula.

Gadi Eisenkot, leader of Yashar party and a former IDF chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Nordiya, Israel, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2026.
View of an empty classroom at a school in Givatayim, during a teacher's strike, on May 6, 2025.

Jewish teacher in Philadelphia pretended to be Palestinian for years

Tents housing displaced Palestinians are seen among homes destroyed during the recent war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, September 3, 2026.

Trump’s Gaza plan is ready. The real challenge is making it happen - opinion

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‘We are friends, it’s real’: How a Jew and a Palestinian’s coexistence dream survived October 7


There is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

The conflict will end only when Palestinians achieve freedom, sovereignty, dignity, and statehood, and Israelis achieve security, recognition, and regional acceptance.

The IDF conducts large-scale anti-illegal immigration operations in the West Bank on July 26, 2026.

Two elections, one diplomatic opening: A chance for Israelis, Palestinians to elect peace - opinion

Israelis and Palestinians may soon have a rare opportunity to replace the politics of permanent war with leaderships carrying renewed democratic mandates.

 (L to R): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The story that traps us: Why Israel's and Palestine's elections need a new conversation - opinion

The coming elections may open a political door unlike any we have seen for a generation.

An elderly Palestinian man fills out his ballot before casting his vote at a polling station during municipal elections in the West Bank city of Hebron on April 25, 2026.

The Abraham Accords’ second act - opinion

The Abraham Accords provide a common political umbrella through which governments can cooperate.

Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords in Washington, US, September 15, 2020.

How democratic Israelis can win the war against the messianic settler Right - opinion

It is time to wake up and acknowledge that there is no democracy with occupation.

JEWISH SETTLERS are seen at the unauthorized Beit Anot outpost in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank after being informed of an expected evacuation, June 1, 2026.

TEMA Network presents report on Israeli society's attitudes towards Israeli-Palestinian conflict

TEMA Leadership Network, an Israeli grassroots organization, presented a year-long study on Israeli society's attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at their conference on Tuesday.

An Israeli and a Palestinian flag hang on an installation set up by members of the Brazilian NGO Rio de Paz at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 4, 2025

Israeli, Palestinian civil society meet in France as two-state solution dims

The meeting, attended by foreign ministers and senior officials from dozens of countries, marks one year since the UN-backed New York Declaration, which set out a roadmap toward Palestinian statehood

ILLUSTRATIVE: A woman walks near the State of Palestine Pavilion at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, last in December 2023.

The 'influencerization' of activism: How virality is replacing real-world organizing - opinion

Activism is now increasingly judged by whether it travels online, not by whether it changes institutions or improves lives. The algorithm does not reward effectiveness. It rewards emotional immediacy

ONE OF THE sailors of the Gaza aid flotillas intercepted by Israel is seen speaking in France, in May 2026.

Why Israel cannot be secure or democratic without justice for all - opinion

A country that is inherently immoral because of the inequality of its citizens based on national-religious identity and rejects the aspiration of seeking maximal justice cannot survive forever.

VIEW OF Independence Hall, the site of the signing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. The document promises that democratic Israel would uphold full social and political equality of all its citizens, the writer says.

May 1964: The day the myth of the ‘occupation’ was born - opinion

The PLO was established three years before the Six Day War, before Israel controlled Judea and Samaria and Gaza. The "occupation" didn't exist yet. So what was the PLO seeking to liberate?

IDF Soldiers arrive at the Temple Mount during the Six Day War in June of 1967. A few months later, the Arab League met, declaring, ‘No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it.’