Benjamin Netanyahu

President Donald Trump is working on a plan for peace in the Middle East. And if Trump unveils a plan evangelicals hate, they could turn on him — or at least not turn out as enthusiastically for his re-election next year. So it's important to him to hear the concerns, hopes and input of evangelical leaders now.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his department’s decision to drop the word “occupation” from its description of the Golan Heights and Palestinian territories.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Good ideas for public housing; what Watergate tells us to expect today; Hispanic Republicans; Netanyahu indicted.

Adeeb Joudeh, custodian of the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, has come under attack after his home in the Old City ended up in the hands of a right-wing Israeli settler group.

A review of how President Trump has fared in the Mideast is mixed at best as even the relative successes are short-term and are attached to a long-term cost to American interests.

NCR Today: U.S. President Donald Trump has demonstrated a close affinity to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Israel should remember that it is dealing with an American president who feels no loyalty to anyone but himself.

In the wee hours of Thursday July 19, Israel's parliament, the Knesset, passed a controversial nation-state law that explicitly defines Israel as the "national home of the Jewish people."

With the maturing of millennials into adulthood and the proliferation of social media, entertainers' support for the cause of Palestinian justice has found a wider, receptive audience.