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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech on the new Middle East peace plan at P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, Jan. 28, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

In protest over sovereignty, Palestinians refuse to accept $190 million in taxes collected by...

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The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday refused to accept tax revenues for the month of May collected on its behalf by Israel, as part of what it says is its end of cooperation with the...
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Iranian TV airs anti-Israel video titled ‘COVID 1948’

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Iran’s Channel 2 TV aired a video last month titled “COVID-1948,” comparing Israel to the coronavirus. In the video, which aired on May 22, the narrator says that the world has been shocked that coronavirus has prevented...
Muslim children play with pigeons at the Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem's Old City, on Jan. 31, 2020. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.

Turkey opens new Islamic center near Western Wall

While Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are holding talks about including Saudi representatives in the Islamic Waqf, which administers the Temple Mount compound, new details are emerging about a new Islamic...
PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Jericho on Feb. 15, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Senior Palestinian official: ‘Our only option is to sever ties with Israel and the...

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The Palestinians’ only option now is to “entirely reject” the U.S. peace plan and sever relations with the United States and Israel, according to PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat. Speaking during a May 30 interview...
Israel's Sorek Desalination Plant on Nov. 22, 2018. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.

Iran ‘opened a Pandora’s box’ in cyber attack on Israeli water system

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The Iranian cyber attack in early April on an Israeli water-treatment facility, designed to get computers to add too much chlorine to the Israeli water supply, represents a new phase in Iranian aggression, a former Israeli...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas enters the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Credit: U.N. Photo/Evan Schneider.

Palestinians, Jordan are bluffing on Israeli sovereignty, say former US officials

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With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushing ahead with plans to apply sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria, there are concerns being raised that it could ignite tensions with...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations on Feb. 11, 2020. Photo: Eskinder Debebe/U.N. Photo.

How worried should Israel be about the Arab response on extending sovereignty?

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The prospect of Israel extending its sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, and parts of Judea and Samaria, has raised questions over what the response by the Palestinian Authority and Jordan would be as both...
UAE ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2008 on May 13, 2008. Photo: Imre Solt via Wikimedia Commons.

UAE: Israel should not annex West Bank territory

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A senior United Arab Emirates official tweeted on Monday that Israel should not move to annex parts of West Bank since it would damage the future peace process. “Continued Israeli talk of annexing Palestinian lands...
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Iranian official: Coronavirus is the handiwork of America

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The head of Iran’s Ammar Strategic Advisory Base, Mehdi Taeb, said in a video posted online in March that the coronavirus is the handiwork of the United States, and that the Iranian city of...
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. Photo: U.N./Manuel Elias.

‘Israeli annexation bid will have disastrous consequences,’ Jordanian foreign minister warns

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Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov on Wednesday that the Israeli plan to apply sovereignty to large parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley must...