Two-state solution is impossible to realize under current conditions, opposition leader says, offers plan which includes completion of West Bank wall: 'I wish to separate from as many Palestinians as possible, as quickly as possible.'

Aviv Bushinsky, now a media pundit, used Hebrew slur during TV debate to stigmatize remarks by envoy Dan Shapiro, who recently criticized Israeli policies in the West Bank.

Defense minister responds to Bennett, after education minister says the leadership's lack of creativity was a bigger threat to Israel than Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran.

Poll by Institute for National Security Studies says 80 percent of Jews view Arab Israelis with a degree of suspicion. But 70 percent of Arabs identify as 'Israeli' in some form.

The IDF handed out cucumber seeds as a message of hope, but the fact they were from a Jewish settlement made it hard for Palestinians to see it as a friendly gesture.

Militants storm a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan; Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan reportedly claims the attack.

Anti-Christian slogans such as 'Christians to Hell' and 'Death to the heathen Christians the enemies of Israel' were scrawled on Dormition Abbey's walls.

For 1,400 years, St. Elijah's Monastery of Mosul survived assaults by nature and man, recently standing as a place of worship for U.S. troops.