Instead, Yisrael Katz wants to apply sovereignty to the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria and develop the area. Israel’s foreign minister took a hardline stance against a Palestinian state in an interview Friday in the Makor Rishon weekly while promoting his idea to invest billions in Judea and Samaria. “I am against a Palestinian state in any [...]
On Monday, 21 Knesset members sent a letter to four U.S. lawmakers highlighting the dangers they say a Palestinian state would pose to Israel’s future. The letter specifically addressed a recent resolution passed in the House of Representatives (House Resolution 246) that both rejected the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, while endorsing the establishment of [...]
Israel supporters in the House of Representatives are taking issue with a single word in a resolution supporting the two-state solution. Several of Israel’s supporters in the House of Representatives are holding up a proposed resolution that reaffirms support for the two-state solution because it is presented as the “only” solution to the conflict. House Foreign [...]
Bahrain on Tuesday defended its decision to host a White House-engineered conference to address the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, saying its only objective is to support the “brotherly Palestinian people.” While the Palestinian Authority rejected a White House-sponsored economic conference planned for next month in Bahrain, which is part of the rollout of President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Israel-Palestinian [...]
The editor-in-chief of a Saudi newspaper is urging Palestinians to keep an open mind toward the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan. Arab News editor-in-chief Faisal J. Abbas wrote on Wednesday in his publication that U.S. President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” Middle East peace plan may reverse course for the Palestinians in a positive way and [...]
Mohammad Shtayyeh, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet, said on Sunday that the Palestinians would not agree to the continuation of the existing political situation. Speaking in Ramallah with the Norwegian envoy to the peace process, Shtayyeh said that the PA leadership intends to reexamine its relations with Israel, including on the political, legal, economic [...]
The Trump team says it wants to find the solution first and give it a title later. When U.S. President Donald Trump and his team launched their effort to formulate an Israeli-Palestinian plan for the future, the first objective which they set for themselves was to drop the terms that had been used in the past. [...]
The European Union has rejected the idea of Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank, which would create chaos and violence in the Middle East, its foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Such a move would destroy the possibility of a two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mogherini said, adding [...]
Palestinian Foreign Minister Maliki says the PA is prepared to hold an Abbas-Netanyahu summit, but only if Russia hosts the meeting. In the aftermath of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on imposing Israeli law on Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and in anticipation of the U.S. publication of its “Deal of the Century” for Israeli-Palestinian peace, the [...]
US President says he prefers two-state solution but will accept anything that Israel and the PA agree upon. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed optimism that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) could be reached. Speaking with reporters in New York, Trump-related to his earlier comments in a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin [...]
