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A road in the West Bank. Credit: Daniel Ventura/Wikimedia Commons.

White House to hold meeting to decide whether to support Israeli annexation

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The White House is expected to hold a meeting presided by U.S. President Donald Trump with U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and other high-level officials to discuss support over Israel’s plan to annex...
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks at a press conference in the David's Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Bolton’s temper tantrum

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Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s critics routinely refer to him as a neoconservative. But they are wrong. Bolton was never part of the neoconservative clique of Bush administration officials. Neoconservatives are messianists and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on a tour with the mapping committee. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Report: US administration to hold ‘dramatic’ meeting on Israel’s sovereignty bid

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Senior U.S. administration officials will hold a meeting this week on whether or not to give the green light to the Israeli government to apply sovereignty in the Jordan Valley, and parts of Judea...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Efrat mayor Oded Revivi during a visit to Efrat, in the Gush Etzion area of Judea on July 31, 2019. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Amid criticism of Trump plan by leaders in Judea and Samaria, others see ‘historic...

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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to lay the groundwork to begin the process of applying Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, and parts of Judea and Samaria, a debate has emerged...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Credit: Leopaltik1242/Wikimedia Commons.

Rep. Ilhan Omar laments Israeli, Saudi influence in Trump administration

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) compared Saudi Arabia’s influence in the Trump administration to that of Israel’s, lamenting the money both have invested in pushing their policies. Ahead of the Tuesday publication of her book This Is...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on a tour with the mapping committee. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

US officials frustrated by settler leaders’ opposition to Trump plan

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Frustration is mounting among U.S. administration officials over the position expressed by some setter leaders in Israel, who oppose President Donald Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan. According to the plan, Washington will endorse an Israeli...

Palestinians in Nablus burn effigy of Pompeo

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Palestinians in the city of Nablus in the West Bank burned an effigy of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in protest of his visit to Israel on Wednesday and against the...
The foreign ministers of Germany, the United Kingdom, China, the United States, France, Russia, the European Union and Iran meet in Geneva on Nov. 24, 2013 for talks on the interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program. Source: U.S. Department of State.

The final days of the Iran nuclear deal

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There is a growing chance that by October, the nuclear deal with Iran, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will be dead. Under the deal with the United States, China, Russia,...
Head of Palestinian national security forces in Hebron Brig. Gen. Hazem Abu Hanood and head of the Palestinian police Brig. Gen. Ahmad Abu Rob talk to residents during a visit to the Old City in Hebron on July 31, 2018. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

Trump administration’s 2021 budgets excludes funding for Palestinian security forces

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U.S. funding for Palestinian security forces was excluded in the Trump administration’s budget released on Monday for the 2021 fiscal year—the first time that a U.S. government budget excluded funds for that purpose. The budget...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House following the unveiling of the U.S. Middle East peace plan on Jan. 28, 2020. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Trump unveils ‘deal of century,’ recognizing Israeli settlements, path to Palestinian statehood

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U.S. President Donald Trump, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in front of top administration officials and prominent guests, announced on Tuesday details of the...