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 [...]
Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog promised the Saudi website Elaph that his Labor Party and its allies would topple the right-wing Netanyahu government and lead to a two-state solution with the Palestinian Authority. He appealed to the Arabs, led by Saudi Arabia, to work on breaking the impasse in the peace process, because—he intimated—the Israeli people are ready for peace. [...]
In an aggressive speech in front of the UN General Assembly, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that despite the Palestinian attempts to achieve peace, Israel “is undermining the idea of the two-state solution.” Abbas also said that Israel is playing with fire when it attempts to change the status quo at the Temple Mount. Palestinian [...]
Israel on Sunday welcomed the US announcement that a top-tier delegation will come to the region in the near future to advance the diplomatic process, while the PLO Executive Committee called on the Trump administration to endorse the two-state solution and halt settlement construction. The White House announced over the weekend that President Donald Trump’s senior [...]
