Tag: Palestinian Statehood
Which state? Biden’s or the Palestinians?
The Biden administration is trying to pressure Israel to accept its idyllic vision of the Middle East by threatening to recognize a Palestinian state. The Israeli government should answer in the immortal words of...
Netanyahu doubles down on opposition to any recognition of Palestinian state
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night again came out forcefully against the prospect of any unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, amid reports the Biden administration is considering such a move.
The prime...
Netanyahu: Recognition of Palestinian state would be ‘huge reward’ to terror
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night pushed back strongly against the prospect of the Biden administration unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.
“Israel categorically rejects international...
More than half of Israelis oppose Palestinian state for Saudi ties
More than half of the Israeli public opposes the creation of a Palestinian state as part of a deal that would end the war against Hamas and normalize relations between Jerusalem and Riyadh, according...
It’s Biden who’s playing politics with the Gaza war, not Bibi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reputation as a master political schemer and a cynical seeker of power is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that there is literally nothing he can do without...
UK government denies plan to ‘reward’ Hamas with Palestinian statehood
Lord David Cameron, U.K. foreign secretary, sparked controversy by suggesting that the United Kingdom might consider recognizing a Palestinian state.
Cameron, a former U.K. prime minister, said during a reception for Arab ambassadors in the British Parliament...
A fifth of right-wing Israelis back two states for US aid
Only one in five right-wing Israeli Jews backs a two-state solution in exchange for American war support, according to a survey the Israel Democracy Institute released on Tuesday.
In contrast, seventy-five percent of left-wing Israeli...
Rep Mark Green: Rejoining UNESCO ‘undermines’ US-Israel relationship
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization announced on June 12 that the United States plans to rejoin the body in July and pay more than $600 million in back payments. Washington had withdrawn from UNESCO...
Ayelet Shaked to UAE media: No current plans to discuss Palestinian conflict
Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said the government does not plan on discussing the establishment of a Palestinian state during the tenure of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett or of Yair Lapid if he...
Bennett says he won’t sit down with Mahmoud Abbas, rules out Palestinian state
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that for now, he has ruled out a meeting with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and the creation of a Palestinian state.
“My perception is different than...