A retraction of a UN investigator from accusing Israel of deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians during a deadly offensive in Gaza two years ago paves the way for the Jewish state to launch new onslaughts without worries of international reactions, officials believe.

In what is certainly the most bizarre instance of public self-repudiation in my lifetime, the South African judge ( who administered numerous death sentences in the apartheid era) took to the opinion pages of The Post to announce he was wrong about Israel’s conduct in Gaza...

A pro-Palestinian group says it will break Israel’s blockade of Gaza by flying a planeload of aid into the coastal strip. The U.S.-based Free Palestine Movement said on its website that it will “raise the ante and challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza by air.”

"Despite our continuous diplomatic efforts, ultimately the Turkish government did not prevent the attempt by the Marmara to violate the naval blockade..." It was Netanyahu's most explicit public account of behind-the-scenes diplomacy that in the end failed to avert the clash.

A 22-year-old pianist from the Gush Etzion settlement of Neveh Daniel has become the latest YouTube phenomenon with her pro-Israel hasbara song “Only Israel.”

[Syrian President Bashar] Assad's balanced position was a surprise. Instead of getting up and cursing Israel for its "aggression" against a Gaza-bound flotilla in May, he acted like a responsible neighbor by trying to calm the dispute.

Later on Monday, however, a spokesman for the Turkish government told the Reuters news agency that Davutoglu had been misquoted in the newspaper reports. The official claimed that Davutoglu actually said that relations with Israel would not improve if an apology was not issued.

Israel is failing to win US public opinion in the wake of its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla that left nine activists dead, according to a leaked memo by Republican political consultant Frank Lunz.