Tag: Mideast Peace Plan
Palestinians reject invitation to economic workshop in Bahrain related to peace plan
The Palestinian Authority officially rejected an invitation by the United States on Wednesday to attend an economic workshop in the Bahrain’s capital, Manama, next month related to the Trump administration’s Mideast peace proposal between the Israelis...
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...
UAE and Saudi Arabia on docket to attend Mideast peace conference in Bahrain
Following an announcement Sunday that Bahrain and the United States will host an economic leadership “workshop” to “share ideas, discuss strategies and galvanize support for potential economic investments and initiatives that could be made...
White House says Mideast plan begins with economic workshop in Bahrain
The Trump administration will roll out the first part of its highly anticipated Mideast peace plan between Israelis and Palestinians, dubbed the “deal of the century,” in late June at a conference in Bahrain...
Eight proposals for easing Mideast tensions
Fathom is a serious British journal about Israel and the Middle East. Micah Goodman is a serious commentator on Judaism and Israel. The current issue of Fathom carries an important essay by Goodman under the telling title,...
A memo to Jared Kushner
A recent report indicates that U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, suggested in a confidential email over a year ago that then U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other policy makers read...
Jordan’s King Abdullah seeks regional prestige and standing … at Israel’s expense
At the recent Washington Institute for Near East Policy dinner, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner voiced confidence in his upcoming proposal to resolve the seemingly intractable Arab-Israeli conflict, calling it “realistic” and “executable.”...
What would Begin do?
In the United States, we sometimes longingly remember past presidents, and envision how they would have responded to today’s challenges. The same is true in Israel, where these days Israelis across the spectrum are...
Kushner: Mideast peace plan to seek ‘tough compromises’ from Israelis, Palestinians
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that the highly anticipated so-called “deal of the century” will “demand tough compromises from Israelis and Palestinians.”
“Normally they start with a process … what we’ve...
Canadian’s peace hopes for Mideast illusory
Robert Fulford, the distinguished Canadian journalist, recently devoted one of his regular columns in The National Post to some hopeful comments on the prospect of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Noting that, by all accounts,...