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.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday slammed US President Donald Trump for his policies toward the Palestinians, calling them an “assault on international law,” and rejected Washington as a mediator of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
TEL AVIV – A top U.S. Congressman said after a visit to Israel this week that it’s time to find new ways of solving the Israeli-Palestinians conflict that do not preclude the two state solution.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump Jared Kushner on Thursday as part of a visit to the region with the aim of jumpstarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
TEL AVIV – Ahead of the arrival of a senior U.S. delegation to the region to jump start the peace process, Palestinian leadership has reiterated that “there will be no peace” without the establishment of a Palestinian state.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday declared the Trump administration to be in “chaos” and that the White House’s plans for peace were incomprehensible.
TEL AVIV – Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s special representative to the Middle East, returned to Israel Sunday night for the second time in a month, a White House official said.
TEL AVIV – Jewish Home head Naftali Bennett and Likud minister Ze’ev Elkin finally agreed Sunday night to collaborate on a bill that would require a two-thirds Knesset majority to give up any part of Jerusalem in a future peace deal with the Palestinians.
The State Department rejected claims that a meeting last week between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and senior White House official Jared Kushner went awry and an unconfirmed report that US President Donald Trump was ready to pull the plug on efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
TEL AVIV – Relatives of American-Israeli victims of Palestinian terror attacks warned President Donald Trump’s advisors Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt on Friday that peace between Israel and the Palestinians was impossible until the Palestinian Authority ends both of its policies of paying salaries to terrorists and their families and inciting and educating violence against Israelis.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is committed to reaching a serious peace deal, Palestinian media quoted Trump’s top advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner saying following a late night meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — One of US President Donald Trump’s envoys charged with spearheading new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks decried the murder of an Israeli border guard in a terror attack outside Jerusalem’s Old City last Friday.
TEL AVIV – Senior White House advisor and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East this week in order to advance a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, according to a White House official.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump will not push for a settlement construction freeze as a prerequisite for peace talks, the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Radio talk show host Mark Levin slammed President Donald Trump for playing “footsie” with “known terrorist” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, saying, “This is turning into Obama 2.0.”
TEL AVIV – Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem would help peace efforts by “shattering the Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) has called on President Donald Trump to right an “historic injustice” and move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly agreed to sit down with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the auspices of President Donald Trump when the latter visits Israel later this month.
In order for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to succeed, a seat at the negotiating table may be needed for the Hamas terrorist group, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has warned.
Britain is proud to have played a key part in the establishment of the modern Jewish State and the document that started that process, the Balfour Declaration, needs no apology from the nation that framed it 100 years ago.
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration is gearing up for major cuts in U.S. foreign aid across the world with the notable exception of the Palestinian territories which will receive increased funding, State Department documents obtained by Foreign Policy magazine show.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to host talks in Moscow between the Israeli leader and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Netanyahu’s office said on Monday.
Amid speculation over a developing Egyptian bid to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said late Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was willing to host Israeli and Palestinian leaders for direct talks.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected accusations of criminal activity as “hot air” and “lies,” saying he has full confidence that Israel’s attorney general would find no wrongdoing on his part.
A global Muslim body called for a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and pledged full support for the “inalienable rights” of the Palestinians. The demand came at the end of an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert started serving a 19-month prison sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice on Monday, becoming the first Israeli premier to be imprisoned and capping a years-long legal saga that forced him
