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Israel attacked for arrests of hundreds of children
Israeli police have been criticised over their treatment of hundreds of Palestinian children, some as young as seven, arrested and interrogated on suspicion of stone-throwing in East Jerusalem.
Israel's right-wing rabbis pour forth 'hateful ideas'
Netanyahu condemns comments such as that Jews should not rent to Gentiles and non-Jews were born to serve Jews.
Road to a pact passes through Jerusalem
Even if the US proposal for a 90-day freeze on new Jewish settlements is agreed to, other hurdles will doom attempts for peace.
Palestinian calls grow to seek UN resolution
Top Palestinian officials are engaged in ¿very serious¿ discussions about whether to abandon negotiations with Israel and seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state.
Obama's 'bribe' is last hope for peace
Every 'fact on the ground' in the West Bank for 17 years has made Israel stronger and weakened the Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu may be hoping history repeats itself.
Israeli tactics are 'uniting' Palestinians
Academic says surge in right-wing policies will underline common ground between groups of Palestinians with divergent interests.
Safed 'the most racist city' in Israel
Safed, one of Judaism's four holy cities, has been making the headlines since local rabbis launched a campaign against assimilation.
Israeli police clash with Arabs
Israeli police and stone-throwing Arabs clash in northern Israel as a group of Jewish right-wing extremists tried to march through the Arab-Israeli town of Umm al Fahm.
Israelis shifting to the right, poll says
Thirty-seven per cent want to deny non-Jewish citizens voting rights and nearly 60 per cent favour restrictions on freedom of speech and peaceful protest.
Israeli police launch drive to fill ranks with settlers
First 35 cadets in officer training programme will next month begin a course that includes religious studies at an extremist settlement.
An oath for the few excludes the many in an ethnocracy
I, like a few others in my position, am likely to make such a pledge through gritted teeth and with my fingers crossed behind my back. Whatever I declare publicly to interior ministry officials will be a lie.
Israeli forces train for Arab transfer riots
Secret exercise to contain potential uprising is a test for post-peace settlement scenario which would forcibly remove many Arab citizens from lands deemed to belong to Israel.
Arab League meet haunted by memory of 2000 talks
The Arab League chose to give more time to the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and force Israel to move on settlements rather than embarrass Mahmoud Abbas, the president.
Israel's Arab citizens are not a negotiating chip
Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that the Palestinians set no preconditions, while making his own precondition the centrepiece of negotiations.
Reported US offer to Israel will fuel doubts
Obama¿s administration may deny existence of letter sent to Netanyahu but its supposed contents will give Abbas little comfort.
