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TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday denounced a Carter-era memo declaring Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be a violation of international law, calling it “deeply flawed.”

TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday slammed 106 House Democrats in a letter for their “foolish” fixation in thinking that settlements constitute a barrier to peace.

Senior Democratic members of Congress have reportedly been in discussion about ways to condemn Israel’s envoy to Washington, Ron Dermer, and the Trump administration’s ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, over their support for the Israeli government’s decision to deny entry to Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.

ZOA President Morton A. Klein and Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. defended Israel’s decision not to allow Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to visit.

TEL AVIV – While not explicitly endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Tuesday said the Trump administration’s long-anticipated peace proposal promotes “Palestinian autonomy” and “civilian self governance.”

Israeli intelligence saves American lives, said United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in a Tuesday-published interview with Mark Levin on the latter’s eponymous radio show. 

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration may release the political portion of its Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal before Israel’s September 17 national elections, special Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt said.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a July 4th party on Tuesday vowed to keep an “open mind” about the long-anticipated Trump administration peace proposal, and slammed the Palestinian leadership for rejecting the plan sight unseen. 

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt on Sunday hammered through a wall at the inauguration of a 2,000 year old archaeological site not far from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, drawing ire from the Palestinian leadership which described the American delegation as “extremist fanatic Israeli settlers.”

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told National Security Adviser John Bolton and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman that he would hear out the Trump administration’s peace plan “fairly and with openness,” but stressed that Israel would never surrender its security presence in the Jordan valley. 

David Friedman’s position on Israel retaining parts of Judea and Samara was the same as every U.S. administration except Obama’s.

TEL AVIV – Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely on Sunday called for extending full Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank region known as Area C.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt on Sunday supported comments made last week by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman supporting Israel’s right to retain parts of the West Bank. 

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump on Sunday thanked Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for naming a new town after him on the Golan Heights.

TEL AVIV —  Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Sunday praised the U.S. ambassador to Israel’s comments saying that Israel “has the right” to annex some of the West Bank.

A large delegation from the Trump administration, including several U.S. ambassadors and other officials, happened to be visiting Israel during the weekend’s Palestinian rocket attacks, and issued a statement of solidarity from there.

BIRKENAU — The 31st annual March of the Living concluded Thursday afternoon at the memorial site of the Birkenau death camp with a rousing call to fight antisemitism around the world.

AUSCHWITZ — The first-ever U.S. government delegation to the March of the Living annual Holocaust memorial arrived at Auschwitz on a somber Thursday morning, bringing several ambassadors and envoys in a show of solidarity against antisemitism.

The first-ever delegation of U.S. ambassadors to the March of the Living, an annual Holocaust commemoration in Poland, received a warm welcome.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated peace plan is an effort to “think out of the box and capture the imagination and hopes of both sides for a better life,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump told a Jewish audience Saturday that both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main election challenger, Benny Gantz, are “good people” who would be running neck and neck on April 9.

President Donald Trump reacted to the news Friday that 2020 Democratic candidates are skipping the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference this year.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrapped up his two-day trip to Israel on Thursday with a historic visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Senator Lindsey Graham, on a visit to Israel’s north with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel must keep the Golan Heights or face a “strategic nightmare,” and vowed that he would work to get U.S. recognition of the area as part of sovereign Israel.

JERUSALEM – In a move that angered Palestinians, the U.S. officially closed its consulate in Jerusalem on Monday, merging consular activities with the main embassy which was relocated to the capital in May. 

TEL AVIV – Venezuelan self-proclaimed interim leader Juan Guaido thanked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for recognizing his government on Sunday.

JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said Sunday that the U.S. military withdrawal from northeastern Syria is conditioned on defeating the remnants of the Islamic State group, and on Turkey assuring the safety of Kurdish fighters allied with the United States.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian Authority court in Ramallah on Monday sentenced Issam Akel, a Palestinian-American resident of eastern Jerusalem, to life in prison with hard labor for his involvement in the sale of land to Israeli Jews in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Republican senators Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton proposed a resolution on Tuesday calling for the U.S. to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

TEL AVIV – In another departure from past policy, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attended a business forum in an official capacity in the West Bank settlement town of Ariel, the first such visit from a U.S. government representative. 

JERUSALEM – Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, President Donald Trump’s envoy to Israel David Friedman released a cute clip wishing Jews around the world a happy new year. 

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has downplayed the chances that a future president could reverse Washington’s decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the city as capital.

JERUSALEM – US ambassador to Israel David Friedman expects the annexed Golan Heights to remain under Israeli control “forever”, according to an excerpt released Thursday of an interview he gave to an Israeli newspaper.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. has “thrown more than $10 billion” in aid to the Palestinians, but despite that we are no closer to peace, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said Tuesday, adding that the Palestinian Authority has used large sums of that money in terrorist payments. 

TEL AVIV – Israel will not agree to a ceasefire deal with the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group if the bodies of the two missing soldiers are not returned, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu on Sunday met with the families

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman criticized the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, saying that rehabilitating Gaza without the Palestinian Authority on board would be a “tremendous prize” for the terror group.