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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...

Netanyahu: ‘The Palestinians have to concede, not Israel’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, and in the Jordan Valley in particular, is a historical step. This is nothing new. However, he apparently doesn’t view...
Palestinian chief negotiator and Secretary General of the PLO Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Jericho on Feb. 15, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Ramallah to ‘seek clarification’ on Arab stance regarding Israeli sovereignty

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PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday that Ramallah will “seek clarifications” regarding reports that many of the moderate Arab states will not challenge Israel’s plan to apply its sovereignty in the Jordan Valley...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

Annexation endangers Israel’s security, democracy, write Democratic senators

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Nearly 20 Democratic senators have signed a letter cautioning about Israel extending sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria. Addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the 18 senators wrote that Israel...
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Biden: West Bank annexation ‘will choke off hope for peace’

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Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said on Tuesday that if Israel applies sovereignty to parts of the Judea and Samaria, it would “choke off any hope for peace,”...

1920 – The Year The `Conflict` Commenced

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{Originally posted to the author’s website} The Arabs` conflict with Israel and Zionism did not begin with a supposed conquest and occupation in 1967 nor was in 1948, the year of the creation of the state...
Images of Israeli and American flags are projected on the Old City walls following President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Former Democrat national security officials call for tougher stance on Israel

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Ahead of U.S. elections in November, the Democratic Party platform should include language critical of Israel, express sympathy with the Palestinians and call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said more than...
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden walks with supporters at a march in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Aug. 9, 2019. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

Biden affirms he won’t move embassy back to Tel Aviv

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Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, reiterated on Wednesday that if elected in November, he would keep the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. “The move shouldn’t have happened in the...
Members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, spray disinfectant in the streets of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 26, 2020, during a campaign aimed at slowing down the spread of the novel coronavirus. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

A pandemic anti-Semitism ceasefire? Not a chance

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Two weeks ago, something highly unusual happened. The United Nations praised Israel. The cause for this remarkable exception to the general rule of the world body’s Israel-bashing was the cooperation between Israel and the...
Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Marie Newman. Source: Screenshot.

Anti-Israel Democrat upsets House incumbent; neo-Nazi fails in Republican primary

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In the Illinois 3rd Congressional District primaries on Tuesday, a progressive narrowly upset the incumbent, a pro-Israel Democrat, while a neo-Nazi and Holocaust-denier lost in a landslide in the Republican race. In the Democratic race,...