Yasser Arafat giving a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 13, 1988. (Photo by © Shepard Sherbell/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty ...

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For decades, the United States backed efforts to achieve a two-state solution—in which Israel would exist side by side with the Palestinian state, with both states recognizing each other’s claim to ...

Rob Malley, who has worked on Middle East policy in every Democratic administration since Bill Clinton’s, can’t say exactly when he became convinced that the quest for a two-state solution for Israel ...

Younger Jews whose hopes aren't nurtured could turn away from or against Israel, writes the director of the Israel Policy ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time on Thursday, and the two men discussed the urgent need to provide assistance to civilians in Gaza and to ...

Rob Malley, who has worked on Middle East policy in every Democratic administration since Bill Clinton’s, can’t say exactly when he became convinced that the quest for a two-state solution for Israel ...