Peace

The Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Award will celebrate artists and activists who follow in the footsteps of one of the most influential artist-activists of the 20th century.

The Abraham Accords are a great geopolitical achievement for the United States.

The Israel-UAE and Israel-Bahrain peace deals represent much more than mere geopolitical developments. There is a deeper and higher resonance.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, contra his critics, has emerged as an expert peacemaker.

To the world, he's a hardline opponent of peace, but the record proves that Israel's longest-serving prime minister is his country's most skillful and successful diplomat.

A word on the truly historic peace agreement between Israel and the UAE.

A Trump Doctrine has emerged.

President Trump's foreign policy doctrine has helped usher in a historic week in the Middle East.

Immediate peace with Israel would pay dividends for the Sunni Gulf states.

It's past time for the release from prison of the most courageous Palestinian peace advocate of our time.

Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said on Saturday North Korea's policy wouldn't change and U.S. negotiations will not continue.

A decades-long obsession with Iranian regime change continues to harm U.S. national interests.

Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria is a win for security and a win for peace.

Nature provides us with a simple way to improve emotional health—in this case, flowers. The presence of flowers triggers happy emotions, heightens feelings of life satisfaction, and affects social behavior in a positive manner far beyond what is normally believed.

"Our region is on the edge of collapse, as a single blunder can fuel a big fire," Rouhani warned fellow Middle East leaders.

Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Florida Rep. Michael Waltz both had tough words for the commander in chief after he invited Taliban leaders to Camp David.

Negotiators are reportedly close to an initial agreement that will open dialogue between the Taliban and the Afghan government with a view to ending almost two decades of conflict.

Business as Diplomacy: Daniel Birnbaum, the American-born CEO of the Israeli company SodaStream, is on a mission. But whether that mission is to make millions of dollars selling fizzy water makers, to promote his personal brand of Zionism, or a combination of both, depends on whom you ask.

"We're not looking for regime change...we're looking for no nuclear weapons," Trump said.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the talks had a "peaceful agenda," but national security adviser John Bolton said "his exit" was "the only real solution."

Israelis, both right and left, are much less optimistic that peace lies in our immediate future.

"The Palestinian leadership has been attacking a plan" when they "don't even know what it is," said senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.

European leaders say the the EU must continue to support a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine regardless of what the Trump administration's Middle East peace plan looks like.

"President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn't think these sanctions will be necessary," the Sanders said.

The U.S. appeared to harden its stance toward North Korea after their latest summit produced no deal. Now Pyongyang may be following suit.

"I produce whatever real ideas come into my mind, even if I go to prison for years," Rajabian said.

Chinese General Wang Weixing argued that if reunited with Beijing, Taiwan would retain significant political, economic and diplomatic independence.

Investigators say the animals are being held in freezing water and cramped pens.

Despite months of hard diplomacy, U.S. envoy Stephen Biegun didn't even get a seat at the negotiating table in Hanoi, where hawkish national security adviser John Bolton had the president's ear.

"Vietnam stands ready to share its experience in national construction, socio-economic development and international integration," an offer that may interest North Korea's Kim Jong Un.