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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 31 December 2006 Palestinians participate a rally to protest Saddam Hussein's execution in Jenin, 31 Dec 2006 The Palestinians have condemned the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But as Robert Berger repo
The European Union, or EU, is calling on Israel to observe a humanitarian truce after a four-day Israeli air offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of France, which currently heads the EU, hosted a meeting in Paris
Along Israel's Border, Preparations Made for Iran-Backed Attacks Israel and the United States are planning joint military exercises in early 2012 with a focus on missile defense. The moves come amid recent Israeli media reports that Israel's governme
Israel has rejected a call by the United States for a total freeze on settlement expansion in the occupied territories. Israel said construction in Jewish settlements will continue despite U.S. pressure. President Barack Obama began pressing the set
The vessel, a small British-flagged catamaran, was carrying what is being described as symbolic quantities of toys, musical instruments and prosthetic limbs. Its passengers included a Holocaust survivor, a former Israeli fighter pilot and an Israeli
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 22 March 2008 United States Vice President Dick Cheney is in Israel, the latest stop on a Middle East tour. As Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem, he hopes to advance the peace process. Vice President Di
By Peter Heinlein New York 20 July 2006 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, center, speaks at a security council meeting at UN headquarters, New York, July 20, 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for an immediate end to fighting between I
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 29 August 2006 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, third right, leaves southern headquarters of UNIFIL, in Naqura, August 29, 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is in Israel after meeting with Lebanese officials and visiting
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 20 April 2006 Ambassador Dan Gillerman Israel's ambassador to the United Nations this week linked the Hamas-led Palestinian government to Iran and to what he called a new
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 19 February 2006 Newly elected Palestinian Parliament speaker Abdul Aziz Duaik briefs the media after meeting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Israel is imposin
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 22 February 2006 Israel is tightening the financial squeeze on the Islamic militant group Hamas, which won Palestinian parliamentary elections last month. Hamas has struck a
Palestinians are celebrating Israel's release of nearly 200 prisoners Monday. Israel says it freed the prisoners as a gesture to bolster the moderate Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. The release came just before the arrival of U.S. Secretary of
Israel has begun easing its blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip under a truce agreement reached last week. But further progress could be linked to the fate of a captive Israeli soldier, as we hear from Robert Berger at the VOA bureau in Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he would accept a Palestinian state as long as it has no military force and recognizes Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. His remarks came in a major policy speech late Sunday in which he
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, right, and his Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos give a press conference after their meeting in Jerusalem, 28 Jul 2010 Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos has called for unconditional,
Hillary Clinton has arrived in Israel, beginning her first foray into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the new U.S. secretary of state. The top U.S. diplomat landed in Tel Aviv late Monday from Egypt, where she attended a donors' conference that
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated a previous demand that Israel halt all settlement building before direct peace talks can resume, during a meeting Thursday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. It was a day of intense diploma
U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell has begun meetings with officials in Israel to revive stalled peace efforts. Among the obstacles that Mitchell is facing is Israel's continuing expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 04 November 2009 Israel says it has seized an arms shipment on the high seas and it is pointing a finger at Iran. Israeli naval commandos stormed onto a ship loaded with weapons near Cyprus and took it to Israel's southern
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 17 October 2009 An Israeli army artillery battery fires a smoke bomb into the Gaza Strip from the border, 06 Jan 2009 Israel is facing growing international pressure after the United Nations Human Rights Council approved t