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TEL AVIV — President Donald Trump will push a “just and lasting peace” and self-determination for the Palestinians when he visits the region next week, the White House said Friday.

TEL AVIV — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday urged Muslims to visit the Temple Mount to act as a counter to the “insult” of “occupied Jerusalem” by Israel, which he called a “racist and discriminatory” state that is reminiscent of apartheid.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas outright lied to Donald Trump’s face at a joint appearance at the White House earlier this week in which the two addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, charged Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein during his regular segment on the national John Batchelor Show.

TEL AVIV — Ahead of President Donald Trump’s White House meeting today with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Wassel Abou Youssef, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview that the Palestinians are expecting to be pressured by the U.S. administration on multiple fronts.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday in Amman in order to coordinate positions ahead of Abbas’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House this week.

At a United Nations Security Council meeting Thursday, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said the world body should focus more attention on the “incredibly destructive nature” of Iran and Hezbollah, and less on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sought to reassure international Jewish community leaders on Sunday that he would stand up against any perceptions of anti-Israel bias at the world organization.

The overwhelming majority of Democrats in the US House of Representatives urged President Donald Trump to reaffirm the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as U.S. policy.

TEL AVIV – A senior delegation arrived in Washington Sunday to meet with officials from the Trump administration to discuss settlement activity and reportedly receive approval for construction in east Jerusalem.

Terrorism won’t be eradicated until the Palestinian issue is settled, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday, expressing hope that recent meetings with US President Donald Trump’s team would lead to “peace” in the region.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East held a three-hour meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, his second meeting with the Israeli leader since arriving in the country this week.

The British royal family has been invited to visit Israel to help mark centenary commemorations of the Balfour Declaration that formally outlined the establishment of a Jewish homeland.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. is in discussions with Israel about holding back on settlement activity, acting State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said Tuesday.

TEL AVIV — Hamas is drafting a new political and ideological charter in the wake of top militant Yehiyeh Sinwar’s recent election as party leader, a member of Egypt’s liaison team to Hamas told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The leaders of Egypt and Jordan reaffirmed their continued support on Tuesday for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested abandoning it.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told a delegation from an umbrella group of US Jewish groups that reaching an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of his top priorities.

TEL AVIV – The meeting between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked a “symbolic reset of relations” after eight years of “tension” between the two countries, a top American foreign policy expert said on Friday.

A representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) said on Thursday that “the alternative to a two-state solution is painful bloodshed.”

France’s commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “stronger than ever,” the French ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday after Washington signaled it was ready to step away from the policy.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would present “responsible policies” in talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, signaling to the Israeli far-right to curb its territorial demands in the West Bank.

WASHINGTON — President Trump and his advisers, venturing for the first time into the fraught world of Middle East peacemaking, are developing a strategy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would enlist Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to break years of deadlock.

Following the Israeli government’s announcement of plans to approve nearly 800 apartments in Jewish communities located in contested eastern sections of Jerusalem, residents, experts and government officials say the new housing projects will not hinder Israel’s ability to resolve the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I predict that when the Obama administration is over, we will still continue to hear John Kerry bloviating about how Israel is the reason there is no peace.

Speaking on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily, broadcast live on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 from 6AM to 9AM Eastern, Aaron Klein, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief, called out what he termed the “fake news media” for failing to report accurately on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

TEL AVIV – Sunday’s terror attack in Jerusalem was a “F**k you” to “settlers,” a Facebook post published by the president of a pro-Palestinian campus group said, prompting a prominent Jewish leader to decry the exploitation of social media to incite murder.

Pope Francis will grant Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas an audience at the Vatican on Saturday, the Holy See confirmed indirectly Tuesday by announcing arrangements for media coverage of the visit.

The international diplomatic conference set to be held in the French capital this coming Sunday could lead to further anti-Israel action at the UN Security Council next week, according to a former top Israeli official.

France is not secretly planning a UN Security Council resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after a major conference in Paris this month, the president of the French Senate said.

TEL AVIV – “Supernatural” actor Mark Pellegrino slammed the United Nations and the U.S. for the “unethical” Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

TEL AVIV – Days after the UN anti-settlement resolution was passed at the United Nations Security Council, the Jerusalem municipality is set to approve the construction of hundreds of homes in eastern parts of Jerusalem this week.

TEL AVIV – Self-described Liberal Democrat and emeritus professor of law at Harvard University Alan Dershowitz said he fears the liberal media in the U.S. will launch a campaign of “demonization” against President-elect Donald Trump’s personal life, saying that attacks on Trump’s wife and family only serve to undermine democracy.

New York, NY — Speaking here at a press conference outside the United Nations headquarters, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton cautioned the Obama administration against supporting unilateral UN action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his final weeks in office.

Speaking to the Saban Forum in Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry demonstrated dangerous ignorance of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a biased perception of the core problems impeding peace between the two sides.

JERUSALEM — Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday said that the U.S. would not rule out taking steps at the UN for a framework for a Palestinian state and condemned Israel’s settlement enterprise as sabotaging the two-state solution.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed hope that Donald Trump would support the quest for an independent Palestinian state, despite his declaration that Palestinians “know nothing about” the president-elect.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson for wearing a Palestinian flag scarf at a special meeting Tuesday to mark “Palestinian Day.”