AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday denounced the deprivations facing Palestinians in Gaza as unique in history, asserting that they are being treated "like animals."

Reuters - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to negotiate a deal with Washington under which Israeli building in existing Jewish settlements can go forward in certain cases, Israeli and Western officials said Tuesday.

AFP - Israel is making it near-impossible for Gaza residents to move to the West Bank, even in humanitarian cases, two Israeli human rights groups said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's keynote speech on Middle East peace this week received massive support from the Israeli public but they do not think it will further its aim, a poll showed on Tuesday.

AP - President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's endorsement of Palestinian independence as a way to restart peace talks and called on Arab neighbors to join the discussion.

Reuters - Palestinians voiced dismay on Monday over terms Benjamin Netanyahu set for a peace deal but the Israeli leader won guarded approval in Washington and Brussels for at least accepting Palestinian statehood.

AFP - US President Barack Obama on Monday praised what he said was "positive movement" in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech setting conditions for a Palestinian state.

AP - President Barack Obama says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's endorsement of Palestinian independence shows the "possibility we can restart serious talks."

AFP - Former US president Bill Clinton on Monday described as "opening moves" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's tough terms for accepting a Palestinian state.

AP - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's grudging endorsement of Palestinian independence — couched in layers of stifling conditions — does not necessarily signal the hawk-to-moderate transformation that hard-line Israeli leaders before him have undergone.

AP - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's tough terms for a Palestinian peace deal are just the opening moves in a drama that will have a few more acts.

AFP - Israel is ready to begin talks without preconditions with Syria and the Palestinians, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday.

AP - Palestinian officials sought U.S and European help to salvage foundering peacemaking on Monday after tough terms laid out by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but they stopped short of refusing to resume negotiations.

Time.com - But the hardliner leaves himself lots of wiggle room with the nettlesome settlers. Another surprise: scant mention of Iran

AFP - The Islamist Hamas movement on Monday said that one of its members died in a Palestinian Authority prison after being brutally tortured.

AP - In a June 13 story about Jimmy Carter's visit to the West Bank, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the former U.S. president was honored by the Palestinian government with an award. The Palestine International Award for Excellence and Creativity was given to Carter by Phalestia, a foundation that belongs to the Paltel Group, a private Palestinian communications company.

AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conditional acceptance of a Palestinian state came under fire on Monday, with the Arab world and Palestinians saying it killed chances of a peace deal.

AP - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel cannot live side by side with a new Palestinian state if it must continually be in fear of attack.

AP - The re-election of Iran's hardline president and a tough speech by Israel's hawkish prime minister signaled an increasingly difficult road ahead for President Barack Obama's hopes for ending Tehran's nuclear threat and brokering peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

AFP - Middle East envoy Tony Blair called on Israel and Hamas to change their policies during a visit on Monday to the Gaza Strip exactly two years after the Islamist group seized power in the enclave.