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The Biden administration is scrambling to avert a diplomatic crisis this week at the United Nations over Israeli settlement activity

Reported presidential hopeful Mike Pompeo, the former U

WASHINGTON — The intractable conflict between Israelis and Palestinians over land, rights and safety has entered a new phase, one plumbing new depths of hatred and radical intransigence that the U.S. government no longer seems in a position to resolve or even mitigate.

Israel granted retroactive authorization on Sunday to nine Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank and announced mass-construction of new homes within established settlements, moves likely to draw US admonition. The first to publish the decisions by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet were two pro-settler politicians whose inclusion…

Arab League meeting denouncing Israeli actions comes amid one of the deadliest periods of violence.

Dozens of leaders and senior officials from Arab and Islamic countries have condemned recent Israeli measures in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, where violence has surged between Israel and the Palestinians

A senior official in Tel Aviv revealed on Tuesday that the head of the CIA, William Burns, warned both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the danger of a third Palestinian uprising in the near future. The official said he was not surprised by Burns’…

The U.S. wants the temporary pause to include Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Palestinian moves at the UN.

Chadian President Mahamat Deby, in Israel to open an embassy on Thursday, heard his hosts' concern about what they described as the clout of their arch-foes Iran and Hezbollah in Africa's Sahel region.

The US is putting the onus on the Palestinian Authority to improve security in the West Bank, despite Israeli raids.

The Palestinians had many reservations about the plan, the U.S. and Israeli officials said.