Tag: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
What’s missing from Israel’s election campaign?
Statements from President Donald Trump last week about American Jews “being disloyal” set off a firestorm of criticism from Jewish groups. It was clear that the president was criticizing liberal Jews for not prioritizing...
In Israel, House Republicans indicate openness to alternatives to two-state solution
Since the Oslo Peace process, the two-state solution has been viewed by most Democrats and Republicans as the end goal in settling land issues connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet the reality on the...
Sanders pledges to ‘leverage’ US funding to ‘end some of that racism’ in Israel
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on Tuesday that, if elected, he would be even-handed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and even leverage U.S. funding “to end some...
Greenblatt: Palestinian aspirations for Jerusalem don’t constitute ‘a right’
The Palestinian aspiration to a have a capital in Jerusalem is “not a right,” and “international consensus is not international law” when it comes to creating a Palestinian state, said U.S. Middle East envoy...
Boris Johnson, Britain’s newest leader, once described himself as a ‘passionate Zionist’
LONDON—In August 2014, Boris Johnson, who was then mayor of London, described himself as a “passionate Zionist” and declared Israel as a “great country.”
Speaking on LBC radio, Johnson, who on Tuesday won the race...
Presidential candidate Joe Sestak would move the US embassy ‘back out of Jerusalem’
Former U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, said on Friday that, if elected, he would undo U.S. President Donald Trump’s relocation of the U.S. embassy in...
Kushner: Trump remains ‘very fond’ of Abbas, despite breakdown in ties
U.S. President Donald Trump remains “very fond” of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, despite a breakdown in ties between Ramallah and Washington, according to senior White House official and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner on...
PA minister: Trump ‘acts as if he’s in charge of entire world’
In a recent article in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, titled “America and its Collusion in Crime,” Palestinian Authority Culture Minister Atef Abu Saif, a former Fatah spokesman, claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump, his senior...
Rabbis share Torah view on historical claim to land with German ambassador
A delegation of the heads of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace—led by Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, rabbi of Chabad-Lubavitch in central Tel Aviv; Rabbi Avraham Schreiber, rabbi of the settlement of Shavei Shomron; and Rabbi...
Source: US Mideast peace plan to recognize Palestinian statehood, Israeli towns in West Bank
The United States is expected to recognize a Palestinian state with its capital in eastern Jerusalem as part of its highly anticipated peace plan to solve the 70-year-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an informed source hearing...