TEL AVIV – Terror group Hamas on Monday praised Arab lawmakers in Israel’s Knesset for protesting during Vice President Mike Pence’s speech and holding up signs reading “Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – In a landmark speech in the Israeli Knesset Monday, Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration would relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by the end of 2019.
TEL AVIV – Vice President Mike Pence asked Egypt and Jordan to reach out to the Palestinians on behalf of the U.S. in an attempt to bridge ties following President Donald Trump’s Jerusalem declaration, Bloomberg news reported on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Welcoming Vice President Mike Pence to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said it was the first time in history that he could stand side by side with another world leader and both could identify Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to reject a peace plan presented by the Trump administration, Israeli media reported over the weekend.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Monday urged UN Secretary-General to issue a condemnation to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for his racism and denial of any Jewish ties to Israel.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian leaders on Monday called for the suspension of recognition of Israel in response to President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday said that President Donald Trump’s “ultimate deal” for peace was a slap in the face for the Palestinians, cursing out the U.S. chief executive by wishing ruin upon his house.
The Palestinian president’s office warned Friday of the potential destructive effects of any move denying their claim to east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli report claiming that the Trump administration had formulated a peace plan recognizing a Palestinian state without evacuating existing West Bank settlements is untrue, American and Israeli officials said.
TEL AVIV — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited Ramallah on Tuesday, where he made public remarks about the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict and key issues related to the region.
Israelis and Palestinians by a small margin still support a two-state solution but most do not think it can happen in the next five years, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday.
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is on an official three-day visit to China, with the goal of building economic and diplomatic ties.
An Israeli government official denied on Friday a report that an agreement had been reached with the Trump administration to refrain from issuing any tenders for new construction projects in the West Bank until the end of this year.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority should not accept a larger regional peace initiative that does not aim to create a Palestinian state, senior Fatah official and member of the movement’s Revolutionary Council, Ahmad Guneim, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
Ismail Haniyeh was recently elected as Hamas’ new political chief thanks in part to support from the leadership of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the group’s military wing, a source in Hamas has told Breitbart Jerusalem. According to the source,
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar clarified Wednesday that his terror group’s new political program, which some interpreted as accepting the idea of a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, would not preclude Hamas from seeking to liberate all of historic Palestine, including Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu borrowed a line from President Trump on Sunday, referring to CNN, The New York Times and other outlets as “fake news.”
Russia recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated in a surprise announcement.
Jordan’s King Abdullah said peace would not be attained in the Middle East without the creation of a Palestinian state under a two-state solution that would be the basis of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace deal.
Support among the Israeli Jewish public for a withdrawal from the West Bank and the establishment of a Palestinian state is decreasing, a new poll published on Monday revealed.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that, in any future peace deal with the Palestinians, Arab List Knesset members suspected of incitement to violence against Jews or of harboring terrorist sympathies should leave Israel.
Israel will never relinquish security control of the entirety of the West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Sunday.
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.
Reiterating his fierce opposition to a two-state solution, Education and Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi) said Monday that the creation of a Palestinian state would see an influx of Palestinian refugees, many of whom he believes would try to cross into Israel.
A two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict must include exchanges of people and land to ensure the two sides are completely separated, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday.
UNITED NATIONS — The United States “absolutely” supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but is thinking of new ways to push for a peace deal, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said Thursday.
JERUSALEM — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday told African nations that Israel was doing “whatever possible” to prevent the creation of an independent Palestinian state and was leading the Palestinians toward a one-state situation with an apartheid system imposed on the Palestinian people.
This weekend Pope Francis received Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican and formally inaugurated the new Embassy of the State of Palestine to the Holy See.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-Israel views likely influenced the outcome of Sunday’s peace summit, a Fatah official told Breitbart Jerusalem, leading to what the official termed a modestly worded resolution at the confab’s conclusion.
TEL AVIV — In a shameful display of rogue diplomacy, 72 countries – minus Israel – are set to attend a Middle East “peace” conference in Paris on Sunday widely expected to set the parameters for a future Palestinian state.
Continuing to push for a two-state solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict is “messianic behavior,” at a time when what is needed is “opening our thoughts” to new diplomatic approaches, Education Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday.
At the behest of the Palestinian Authority, Egypt on Thursday introduced a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Israel halt all settlement activity, meaning Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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 – A majority of Democrats believe Israel is a burden on the United States and has too much influence on American politics, according to a poll released by the Brookings Institution on Friday. Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they believed President-elect
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.
Israel faces a unique window of danger from Nov. 9 to Jan. 20: What might President Obama do in his final days in office to slam the Jewish state?
The U.S. and international community are up in arms because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the inconvenient truth that uprooting Jewish communities from the West Bank to make way for a Palestinian state is tantamount to “ethnic cleansing.”
Settlements in the West Bank are not preventing peace with the Palestinians, Israel’s prime minister said on Friday.
TEL AVIV – A majority of Palestinians – 54% – believe that Israel is bent on extending its borders to include all the territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea as well as planning a campaign of ethnic cleansing to expel them, a new poll found.
