Tag: Mideast Peace Plan
In talk to American Jewish leaders, Sa’ar throws water on idea of Palestinian state
Likud Knesset Member Gideon Sa’ar said on Wednesday that while the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan is better than any proposal Israel has seen in decades, a Palestinian state just miles from Israeli population...
Conference of Presidents: Jewish mission to Saudi Arabia the result of ‘two decades of...
A delegation of 30 Jewish American leaders was hosted by senior government officials last week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a four-day summit organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,...
Moderate Arab states: ‘We’re with Trump’
The Palestinian Authority’s loud and vigorous opposition to President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” puts the Palestinians in conflict not only with Israel and the United States, but also with the axis of...
Netanyahu: Accumulation of power creates a new approach for Israel in the Middle East
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of American Jewish leaders that the “accumulation of power is creating a new approach for Israel” in its relations throughout the Middle East, and particularly with...
Palestinian prime minister: Trump’s peace plan ‘will be buried soon’
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Sunday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan, saying it would be “buried very soon.”
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Shtayyeh said that the newly revealed Mideast...
US-Israeli sovereignty committee ready to work as Trump appoints members
The joint U.S.-Israel committee tasked with mapping the areas to which Israel will extend its sovereignty under the Trump Mideast peace plan is ready to start working.
A senior official in the U.S. administration confirmed...
EU warns of violence if Israel annexes Jordan Valley
The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, sent a message to Israel on Tuesday not to annex the Jordan Valley in the West Bank or else Palestinians could resort to violence.
“This may happen. …...
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The sordid 100-year history of the ‘two-state solution’
With both friends and enemies of Israel exercised over the latest incarnation of what we know as the “two-state solution,” it’s worth remembering that the very first such solution was enacted in infamy nearly...
Abbas: Trump’s vision of Palestinian state is ‘like Swiss cheese’
In a speech on Tuesday to the U.N. Security Council, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas expressed contempt towards the Trump administration’s peace plan, saying it is filled with holes and comparing it to “Swiss...
History will remember Abbas as peace rejectionist
Even before the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan was revealed earlier this month, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was planning his trip to New York City, where he plans to address the United...