The mainstream media are abuzz with reports that President Donald Trump has come out against Israeli settlements. The New York Times was exultant: “Trump Embraces Pillars of Obama’s Foreign Policy,” it crowed.
TEL AVIV — A female Palestinian assailant on Thursday night rammed her vehicle into a police car and into the entrance gate of Geva Binyamin, a West Bank Jewish community north east of Jerusalem. In a statement provided to the
Contents: Israel expels residents of Amona West Bank settlement, testing rule of law in Israel; Israel approves large settlement — first new settlement in West Bank in decades
Several hundred Israeli security forces have begun the operation to evacuate 40 Jewish families from the Amona outpost in the West Bank on Wednesday morning following hours of delay, police said.
With the evacuation of the Amona outpost looming, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday approved the construction of around 3,000 new homes in the West Bank, some of them outside settlement blocs Israel hopes to keep in a future peace deal with the Palestinians.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority has arrested 47 Islamic State sympathizers in the West Bank this week, a senior Gaza-based jihadi affiliated with IS ideology told Breitbart Jerusalem.
A massive manhunt was underway Sunday for a Palestinian prisoner who escaped from a hospital in central Israel where he was undergoing a routine medical examination.
It’s nighttime in the Binyamin region. A Palestinian family from the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya notices an upturned bus that had rolled downhill from the nearby road leading to the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Levona.
Israeli officials on Thursday gave final approval to build 153 housing units in East Jerusalem, two days after approving construction for some 2,500 homes in the West Bank, most in existing settlement blocs Israel hopes to keep in any peace deal with the Palestinians.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said there would be “dangerous consequences” following Israel’s announcement on Tuesday approving the construction of 2,500 housing units in settlements in the West Bank, Israel Radio reported Thursday morning.
UNITED NATIONS — The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Wednesday to discuss Israel’s plan to build new settler homes in the West Bank, but did not take any action.
A Palestinian man opened fire on vehicles traveling on Route 55 in the northern West Bank on Thursday afternoon, the IDF said. No one was hurt in the attack.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian wielding a knife rammed a vehicle into an Israeli bus stop in the West Bank and was shot dead by Israeli forces responding to the attack, the army said.
TEL AVIV — Two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump spoke by phone, Israel on Tuesday announced the approval of 2,500 homes in the West Bank, most of which are to be built in already existing Jewish communities.
Contents: Explosive Israeli policy decisions reportedly put on hold at Trump’s request; Israel prepares for the Palestinian ‘Oslo Generation’
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman this week called on the Palestinian residents of Gaza to overthrow their Hamas rulers, promising that Israeli support and assistance for Gazan civilians will be forthcoming if the terror group is uprooted.
TEL AVIV – Following three days of reconciliation meetings in Russia, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party has agreed to form a unity government with Gaza-based terror group Hamas.
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.
TEL AVIV – Instead of convening a summit on the ongoing civil war in Syria, or the migrant crisis threatening Europe, or the rampant anti-Semitism plaguing its own country, France on Sunday held a convention attended by over 70 nations
The Palestinian leadership is working with Western governments on a movement for European countries to unilaterally recognize Palestine as an independent state, a member of the PLO executive council told Breitbart Jerusalem.
During his regular segment on the national John Batchelor Show last night, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein used alarming statistics to raise questions about whether the Palestinians are engaged in an enhanced terrorist campaign in response to the United Nations Security Council’s anti-Israel resolution and other international movements singling out Israel for condemnation in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti (pictured) Muhammad Ahmad Hussein on Friday claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s reported plans to relocated the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem represented an “assault” on Muslims worldwide.
Hamas police arrested a famous singer in Gaza on Wednesday, allegedly following a critical song he wrote protesting the rampant power shortages that have plagued the Strip recently.
JERUSALEM – A majority of Israeli Jews support settlement construction and believe President Barack Obama to have been “unfriendly” towards Israel during his tenure, a new survey published in the wake of the anti-settlements United Nations Security Council shows.
JERUSALEM – President Barack Obama on Monday denied betraying Israel by not using the U.S. veto for an anti-settlement resolution at the United Nations Security Council last month.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Tuesday told Parliament the United Kingdom played a key role in advancing an anti-settlement resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council last month.
TEL AVIV — Israeli defense officials have noted a sharp increase in Palestinian rock-throwing attacks since the United Nations Security Council passed an anti-Israel resolution on December 23, 2016 calling the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “occupied Palestinian territories.”
Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian who attacked them with a knife overnight during an operation to arrest suspected militants, the army said on Tuesday morning.
An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian Monday to two life terms for shooting dead Israeli hiker Danny Gonen in the West Bank 19 months ago, the army said.
The House overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan measure Thursday that rebukes the United Nations for criticizing Israeli settlements as Republicans used the debate to accuse President Barack Obama of turning his back on the Jewish state.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) commended President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for his Cabinet thus far on Wednesday, calling Trump’s picks a team of conservative “all stars.”
Contents: Israel polarized over conviction of soldier for manslaughter; Protesters clash with police to protest the verdict; Comparison to Pakistan murder of Salman Taseer
MAALE ADUMIM – Israel “would only be acting on the property it already owns” if it annexed the West Bank, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening said he backs calls to pardon an IDF soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead an incapacitated Palestinian assailant, and described the conclusion of the months-long trial as “a hard and painful day.
Critics who thought the U.S. opened the UN’s anti-Israel floodgates by abstaining on a vote condemning settlements last week say an obscure subsequent move by the world body to establish a “blacklist” of Israeli companies proved them right.
An Israeli investigation into school books used by United Nations-run schools in the West Bank were found to consistently delegitimize and demonize the State of Israel.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he was “disappointed” to learn that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not attend an international peace conference in Paris scheduled for January 15.
JERUSALEM/ MAALE ADUMIM – Mike Huckabee slammed the United Nations as a “farce” for caring more about “Israelis building bedrooms” in the settlements than the threats posed by Iran and the human rights violations of Syria and North Korea.
A top Hamas official stirred a controversy after called on the Palestinian factions to establish a federal government in the West Bank in Gaza.
Last March, Sergeant Elor Azaria, a 19-year-old Israeli army medic deployed to the West Bank, shot and killed a Palestinian assailant as he lay wounded and motionless on the ground after attempting to stab an Israeli soldier.