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Delegations from Finland and Sweden went to Ankara Wednesday for negotiations on Turkey’s refusal to accept their applications to join NATO. 

Saeb Erekat was the Palestinians’ chief negotiator, but he also supported terrorists and he also spread lies about Israel, like the Jenin “massacre” hoax.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is traveling to Qatar for the beginning of long-stalled peace negotiations between the Taliban and Kabul to end the nearly two-decade-old Afghanistan war, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday.

Malawi announced Saturday that it would open an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the third country to do so over the weekend.

Negotiations for a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a British government source speaking to The Telegraph.

Trump: “Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.”

On July 9, an Israeli court ruled that the Palestinian Authority was responsible for several attacks by Palestinian terrorist organizations against Israel — a landmark decision that could, and should, have international implications.

The Palestinian leadership didn’t boycott the Trump administration’s economic meeting in Bahrain last week because it denied them a future political horizon. They oppose the Trump Prosperity to Peace plan because it gives them an open road to success.

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

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told a gathering of liberal Jews that the United States should pressure Israel to change its policies.

To succeed, President Donald Trump’s peace plan must provide Israeli sovereignty over “Area C” in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”).

The White House revealed Sunday that it would unveil the “economic component” of its long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan at a regional economic conference to be held in Manama, Bahrain, on June 25 and 26.

If the Saudis make the Palestinians a bold offer of economic and diplomatic support, but also make clear the offer is a once-off, take-it-or-leave it proposition, the Palestinian leadership may find it difficult to walk away from the table.

President Donald Trump said Friday the United States did not pay North Korea $2 million for American hostage Otto Warmbier’s hospital bills.

The truth is it isn’t hard to understand why the Trump administration might depart from the traditional notion of peace-by-two-states; it’s simply a non-solution.

U.S. trade negotiators are making the trek back to China in waves starting February 11 for high-level talks ahead of the March 1 tariffs truce deadline.

The Trump White House is reportedly deliberating the best time to present its plan for Arab-Israeli peace. But Arab societies still hate Israel.

But in theory, an agreement should be possible, because the changes the Trump administration seeks at the border are not radical, and because Democrats have agreed in the past to similar physical barriers to what Trump is proposing.

China’s Vice Premier pledged to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office Thursday that China will purchase five million tons of soybeans a day from the U.S.

The U.S. Trade Representative will lead pivotal, top-level trade meetings with China’s delegation at the White House this week.

The Palestinians don’t want peace. And the Israelis can no longer afford to flatter would-be American peacemakers by accepting their unrealistic plans.

“If [reports] they are true, they indicate that the Trump team has learned nothing from the past. And if they do go forward with something that looks like what has been reported, then their plan is a non-starter.”

The U.S. will send a high-level delegation of trade representatives to China on Monday for negotiations with their Chinese counterparts. 

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced this week that it will continue operations despite a partial government shutdown.

Perhaps the apparent breakdown of the Trump administration’s efforts to coddle the Saudis into playing a significant role in negotiations between Israel and the PLO is a blessing in disguise.

Only a profound change in Palestinian politics and society, which abandons the goal of building a state upon the grave of Israel, offers the prospect of a new political reality.

U.S. trade officials hope to strengthen trade ties with the U.K. as the country moves into a post-Brexit position after recent meetings between officials from both nations.

President Donald Trump’s Middle East team, led by Jared Kushner, made the right choice in dealing with Hamas-controlled Gaza.

The time has come for Israel and the U.S. to let Gaza fail. Helping Gaza economically only encourages Hamas to wage further war.

International legal scholar Eugene Kotorovich argues in a new paper that the U.S. must, by law, withdraw $40 million in funding from two United Nations agencies because they granted membership to the Palestinian Authority.

President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of having support in negotiations – not “little ones sniping at your heels”– explaining that tariffs on countries that already levy tariffs on the U.S. will help the U.S. “make great deals.”

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is still undecided about whether he will travel to Israel in May to inaugurate the new U.S. embassy to coincide with Israel’s 70th anniversary, the White House said Tuesday.

TEL – AVIV – President Donald Trump’s special Middle East envoy slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday for calling the U.S. ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog” and choosing “hateful rhetoric” over bettering the lives of his people.

Like the foreign policy establishment he represented, Rex Tillerson refused to abandon the false belief that nothing can be done without PLO approval.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party gave a fully furnished apartment to the family of the terrorist responsible for the murder of an Israeli rabbi last month, saying it was “fulfilling the national duty towards the families of martyrs.”

TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian official said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is locked in “confrontation” with the Trump administration over its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and that the days when the world is led by the U.S. are numbered, the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Wednesday.