Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is praising Israel for “unprecedented” concessions in the interest of restarting peace talks with the Palestinians, but her shuttle diplomacy produced no sign of a breakthrough.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Israel is making “unprecedented” concessions on West Bank settlement construction.

United Nations peacekeepers protested Israel’s violation of Lebanese airspace over the weekend during an investigation into two explosions near the countries’ shared border.

Jordan’s king said in comments published Monday that the U.S. administration seems to be focusing more of its attention on Iran and less on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying time was running out to make peace.

In the first glimpse of him since his capture more than three years ago, a thin but healthy-looking Israeli soldier said in a video released Friday that he is being treated well by his Palestinian captors and appealed to Israel’s leader to bring him home.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons it could “bring terrorism beyond our wildest dreams.“

Pressing for elusive Mideast peace, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Israeli and Palestinians leaders to do more, saying it was time to “find a way forward.“ It was the president’s most direct engagement yet on a problem that has vexed leaders for years.

Israel’s military chief says all options remain “on the table” for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program.

Israeli and Swedish officials responded furiously Wednesday to a Swedish newspaper article that suggested Israeli troops killed Palestinians and harvested their organs.

A new report by Human Rights Watch charged Thursday that Israeli soldiers killed eleven unarmed Palestinian civilians who were carrying white flags in shooting incidents during Israel’s offensive in Gaza earlier this year.

An editorial yesterday in The Washington Post opened on a jarring note: “One of the more striking striking results of the Obama administration’s first six months is that only one country has worse relations with the United States than it did in January: Israel. The new administration has pushed a reset button with Russia and sent new ambassadors to Syria and Venezuela; it has offered olive branches to Cuba and Burma. But for nearly three months it has been locked in a public confrontation with Israel over Jewish housing construction in Jerusalem and the West Bank. To a less visible extent, the two governments also have differed over policy toward Iran.“

Israel’s foreign minister says his country does not intend to bomb Iran.

Yesterday President Barack Obama met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. He previously sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The so-called two-state solution seems much on many minds. The scenario sees Israel and a Palestinian state existing side by side (or side by side by side, as Gaza and the West Bank are not contiguous). Although the boundaries of the proposed states have changed over the years, the idea is not new. The Arab bloc rejected two states in 1948, for instance, and promptly invaded Israel at the moment of its rebirth.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran test-fired a new advanced missile Wednesday with a range of about 1,200 miles, far enough to strike Israel and southeastern Europe.