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Moving past a ceasefire: Recognizing Israel is a big step, but 'normal,' says Lebanese diplomat

Lebanon’s Washington framework with Israel puts Hezbollah’s disarmament, state sovereignty, and Iran’s regional role at the center of a fragile test for both Beirut and Jerusalem.

A flower at the Al‑Bass Roman ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage site hit by an Israeli airstrike in Tyre, southern Lebanon June 25, 2026.
Gregg Roman, CEO of the Middle East Forum and a former political adviser at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

We Won the War, But We’re Losing the Peace

MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE JERUSALEM

The Year that Was With the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem

 People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May, 2025.

'Gaza is Palestinian; not Israeli,' former Israeli PM Olmert says


Pence to shun Israeli opposition during visit

Meretz leadership candidate Tamar Zandberg complained Sunday that “there is no opposition in the State of Israel.”

Isaac Herzog

Official: Abbas to ask EU to help create alternative to U.S.-led peace process

“I don’t think the Europeans believe that much of anything will come out of Trump’s peace plan.”

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas deliver a press statement after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, December 22, 2017.

PA looks to Russia, China to upstage United States

PA President Mahmoud Abbas has said repeatedly that the US has forfeited its role as a mediator due to President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

China's Xi Jinping and PA president Mahmoud Abbas in China, July 2017

Greenblatt arrives in Israel for his first major diplomatic test

Palestinian officials will boycott US envoy due to US President Trump's Jerusalem declaration.

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, in Ramallah.

Israeli Minister Katz: Saudi Arabia should take lead role in peace process

Minister says 25% of Turkish exports to the Gulf go through Israel, and Jordan exports 20% of its goods via the Haifa port.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud walks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a reception ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia November 7, 2017

Minister to Jpost: Parts of cabinet ‘can’t live’ with Trump's two-states demand

Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis did say before setting out on his US trip that he expected the White House to buckle down on the plan to bring peace to the region soon.

MK OFIR AKUNIS looks out over the Old City of Jerusalem

Senior WH official says Trump decision to move embassy is a 'matter of when, not if'

A senior administration official tells the 'Post' that despite US President Donald Trump's recent announcemnt that peace efforts come before embassy relocation, the latter is still a goal.

A flag flutters outside the US embassy in Tel Aviv August 4, 2013

PA envoy: Even without a peace deal, Palestinians will proceed 'as a state'

PLO Ambassador to the UN states that the Palestinians are actively joining world bodies as a state and plan to carry down that diplomatic path despite the stagnant peace talks.

PLO envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour.

Kushner: There may be no solution to ME peace

A revealing, off-the-record conversation with interns leaks to the press.

Jared Kushner meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, June 21 2017.

UN envoy advises US team to 'aim low' on Mideast peace process

Mladenov says Gaza could destroy any nascent process, and issue keeps him up at night.

NICKOLAY MLADENOV