JERUSALEM -- In an endeavor to breathe some life back into the moribund Israeli-Palestinian conflict the British government is taking steps to encourage disinvestment from illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank by labeling all produce manufactured and produced by settlers.

JERUSALEM -- In an upping of the tit for tat rhetoric between Tel Aviv and Tehran, several senior Iranian officials have recommended a pre-emptive strike on Israel in order to neutralize any Israeli attempt to bomb the Islamic republics alleged nuclear facilities.

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Foreign Minister and the leader of Israels ruling Kadima Party Tzipi Livni has just three weeks to cobble together a coalition government. If she is able to do this she will be Israels next prime minister, the second female to hold this post since the late Golda Meir.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has been elected the leader of the ruling Kadima party, beating her opponent, Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, by a mere 2 percent.

JERUSALEM – Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the newly elected leader of Israels ruling Kadima party, began negotiations last Friday to form a new cabinet following her narrow win in the party primaries over closest rival Shaul Mofaz.

JERUSALEM -- A top peace negotiator and a hawkish former general battle it out on Wednesday in a party vote that could give Israel its next prime minister and determine the course of Middle East peace efforts.

Almost a year ago to the day, in a totally surprising move, the Israeli Air Force bombed a suspected nuclear facility in Syria. Interestingly, over the previous summer, Israel had reportedly warned the George W. Bush administration. Despite opposition from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Israel moved to eliminate what it believed was an imminent threat.

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is trying desperately to salvage what remains of his tattered reputation in a last ditch bid to achieve some success on the Palestinian-Israeli front before he steps down as premier in the next couple of weeks.

AMMAN -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began on Monday what has become a routine visit to Israel and the West Bank as the U.S. administration of President George W. Bush races against time to try to clinch a peace deal in fewer than 150 days; but despite an Israeli "goodwill" gesture in releasing 198 Palestinian prisoners, there were no new signs that deal was near.

BIRZEIT, West Bank -- Jerusalem, the casus belli of the Palestinian national struggle of liberation and the rallying cry of the Zionist movement for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, was recently described as becoming "a terror hub," a "hotbed" of violent Palestinian neighborhoods and as being "encircled" by "a security vacuum," where going into the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat "is more dangerous than the [northern West Bank] Jenin refugee camp," according to the Israeli former "defense" minister who now holds the transport portfolio, Shaul Mofaz, and the director of Israels internal security agency Shin Bet, Yuval Diskin, respectively.