Tag: Mideast Peace Plan
Unity deal allows Netanyahu to push Trump’s peace plan
The unity government agreement finalized on Monday evening by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz allows Israel to promote the annexation of parts of Judea and Samaria...
Report: Palestinians launch diplomatic offensive to prevent Israeli annexation
PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said on Sunday that he was in talks with various international parties about the need to “preserve the two-state solution” in the face of possible annexation by Israel of territory...
Kushner briefs senators on Trump Mideast peace plan
White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner briefed a bipartisan group of senators in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee behind closed doors on Tuesday about the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan, reported Axios, which...
Jordan-Israel peace treaty ‘at risk,’ says Jordanian premier
Relations between Jordan and Israel are at their lowest ebb since the signing of the 1994 peace treaty between the two countries, and the treaty itself is now “at risk,” Jordanian Prime Minister Omar...
Greenblatt joins Israeli OurCrowd as partner for building Mideast relations
Jason Greenblatt, the former U.S. special envoy to the Middle East in the Trump administration, has joined OurCrowd, a large venture-capital investment company in Israel, as a partner whose responsibility is building ties with...
Biden to AIPAC: ‘I support Israel and a Palestinian state’
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to attendees of the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in a video address on Sunday, stating that he will always support Israel, but that he also believes in a...
Joint US-Israel sovereignty committee holds its first meeting
The joint U.S.-Israel committee tasked with mapping the areas to which Israel will extend its sovereignty under the Trump Mideast peace plan held its first meeting on Monday outside the Samaria city of Ariel.
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Papal infallibility? Not when it comes to the Middle East
The words of the prophet Isaiah that Pope Francis cited on Sunday during his speech in the Italian port city of Bari are especially beautiful to those who read them from Jerusalem, because here...
Israeli Arabs reject becoming citizens of Palestinian state, as suggested in Mideast peace plan
Israeli Arab citizens flatly reject the idea floated in the recently released U.S. “Peace to Prosperity” plan that envisions the possibility that borders would be redrawn and some Arab cities and villages could become...
Challengers Gantz and Lapid attack Netanyahu-Trump relationship
Blue and White Party leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid are establishing their diplomatic credentials in the immediate run-up to Israel’s March 2 election with an insult to a U.S. administration that has arguably...