News stories by Mitchell Plitnick

WASHINGTON, Sep 15 (IPS) - The son of one of the founders of the biggest Palestinian militant group decides to work with Israel. He spends a decade working undercover with the Israeli security service, the Shin Bet, thwarting dozens of Palestinian attacks and contributing significantly to the arrest or elimination of dozens of leading Palestinian militants.

WASHINGTON, Jul 30 (IPS) - Pro-Israel activists assembled a huge crowd and a long list of congressional leaders and diplomats to declare their unconditional support for Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip on Monday, largely downplaying  tensions between Jerusalem and Washington.

WASHINGTON, Jun 05 (IPS) - The announcement this week of a new Palestinian unity government was greeted with cautious optimism by most of the world, outside of Israel. In the United States, however, it set off political rumblings that threaten to swell into a storm.

WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (IPS) - In the wake of the collapse of U.S.-led peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the angry rhetoric around this conflict has only escalated.

WASHINGTON, Mar 04 (IPS) - The failure of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians could lead to a significant shift in public opinion in the United States regarding Israel's future, according to a new poll released Monday.

WASHINGTON, Feb 01 (IPS) - Twenty years of the Oslo peace process between Israelis and Palestinians have made a solution more difficult to attain, rather than easier. That was the conclusion of a poll of Israelis and Palestinians released on Friday.

WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - When one writes a book about Israel, one must expect that it will be analysed not for its quality but for its ideological bent.

WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators returned to the negotiating table on Thursday, ready to put claims by the United States that it will engage more forcefully in the negotiating process to the test.

WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (IPS) - Israel and its domestic U.S. lobby are already in the early stages of the next 10-year aid package, which would not go into effect until 2017 and will be the first since Congress passed the Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2008, which requires in part that U.S. military aid to Israel ensure that Israel maintains its "Qualitative Military Edge" (QME) over any combination of states and non-state actors.

WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (IPS) - Against the backdrop of two major announcements of Israeli settlement expansion, U.S.-brokered peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians resumed Thursday in Jerusalem.