Tag: Peace Process
Israelis light 25,000 candles to commemorate 25th year since Rabin assassination
Twenty-five-thousand memorial candles were lit in Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv on Thursday to commemorate the 25th Memorial Day of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Rabin, 73, was murdered by Bar-Ilan University...
Largest NGO of imams worldwide adopts universal definition of anti-Semitism
The largest nongovernmental organization of imams in the world, the Global Imams Council (GIC), has adopted the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.
The council’s governing board, senior imams committee and advisory committee...
Camp David 20 years later: Still holding onto the Oslo delusion
It’s one anniversary that no one is celebrating. Twenty years ago this month, President Bill Clinton welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to a peace summit at Camp David....
Vatican: US new stance on settlements undermines Israeli-Palestinian peace
The Vatican said on Thursday that the announcement on Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the United States would no longer view Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria as illegal under international law...
US announcement on Jewish settlements does not ‘close door’ on peace, says legal expert
Experts weighed in on the U.S. State Department’s announcement on Monday that the United States is softening its stance on Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria.
It is a reversal of the 1978 State Department legal opinion,...
In London, Netanyahu and Johnson talk Iran, Middle East peace process
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday in London to discuss the Iranian threat and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The meeting lasted only half an...
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...
Abbas ‘aggressive’ in talks with Democrats, rejected overtures to working with US on peace...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas avoided answering whether or not he believes that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state and seemed “aggressive” in talks with U.S. lawmakers regarding the Trump...
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...
What the Trump peace plan cannot accomplish
When the Trump administration released the economic portion of its Middle East peace plan last week, the avalanche of criticism was immediate and harsh. Even though the president’s foreign-policy team couched the plan as...