Mediators from Qatar reportedly presented Iran with a draft proposal to end its conflict with America and Israel on Sunday, but an Iranian official quickly dismissed the Qatari plan as “unacceptable.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping presented a “four-point proposal on promoting peace and stability in the Middle East” to the UAE Crown Prince.
Indonesian Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maruli Simanjuntak said on Tuesday that his country is prepared to commit 5,000 to 8,000 troops to the International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that his “main problem” with the 28-point peace plan proposed by the United States is that it legally recognizes territory Russia stole from Ukraine by force during the invasion that began in 2022.
The Trump administration rolled out a 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine on Thursday, prompting swift, although somewhat equivocal, responses from both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Conservative President of Paraguay Santiago Peña was the only Latin American head of state invited by President Donald Trump to participate in Monday’s historic Middle East Peace Summit hosted in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday awarded President Donald Trump the “Order of the Nile,” the highest honor of the modern Egyptian state.
Iranian regime newspaper Islamic Republic described the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, as “a mistake that cost Iran dearly.”
A Gallup poll finds 52% of Ukrainians want the war to end as quickly as possible, versus 38% who want to fight until victory.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Wednesday urged China to take a leading role in mediation on the Ukraine war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he will put the finishing touches on an “action plan for peace” by the end of November. He added that he cannot discuss a ceasefire while Russian forces occupy Ukrainian territory.
China’s Foreign Ministry and state media portrayed dictator Xi Jinping’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday as a sweeping diplomatic triumph, with Zelensky practically begging Beijing to take a leading role in negotiations to end the Russian invasion.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday touted top diplomat Wang Yi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow as an epochal moment in Beijing’s rise to global dominance because the world supposedly realizes that only China can possibly mediate an end to the war in Ukraine.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the radical left-wing group J Street, embraced Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in New York on Tuesday and appeared to kiss him.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who in September weathered the latest in a series of scandals over his anti-Semitic remarks, on Saturday demanded U.S. President Donald Trump resign for offering an “utterly unacceptable” and “grossly unjust” peace plan for the Israelis and Palestinians.
Wednesday, March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg discussed his “Peace Plan,” which is calling for the registration of all guns, implementation of “mandatory” buybacks of certain guns and pushing for other changes in gun laws. Hogg said the plan
The Trump White House is reportedly deliberating the best time to present its plan for Arab-Israeli peace. But Arab societies still hate Israel.
“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.”
Recent events in the Palestinian Authority make clear that there is really no point in advancing any peace plan for the Middle East.
