Tag: two-state solution
Ocasio-Cortez withdraws from event to commemorate Yitzhak Rabin
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has withdrawn from being a speaker at an upcoming Americans for Peace Now (APN) event memorializing Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who was assassinated by a Jewish extremist almost...
Report: Chinese president supports the Palestinians’ ‘just demands’
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday expressed China’s support for the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he said had always been the core issue in the Middle East.
Speaking via telephone with Palestinian...
Johnson reiterates his opposition to Netanyahu’s sovereignty plans
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated his opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to extend sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, and parts of Judea and Samaria, calling the potential moves “damaging” to...
Biden: West Bank annexation ‘will choke off hope for peace’
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said on Tuesday that if Israel applies sovereignty to parts of the Judea and Samaria, it would “choke off any hope for peace,”...
Former Democrat national security officials call for tougher stance on Israel
Ahead of U.S. elections in November, the Democratic Party platform should include language critical of Israel, express sympathy with the Palestinians and call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said more than...
How much of Trump’s foreign policy would Biden preserve?
Democrats can’t wait until next January. They’re hoping that the next inauguration day will be the end of their long nightmare, and they can put the presidency of Donald Trump in the rear-view mirror....
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...
![Samuel Augustus Mitchell [Public domain]](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1864_Mitchell_Map_of_Palestine_Israel_or_the_Holy_Land_-_Geographicus_-_Palestine-mitchell-1864-324x235.jpg "The sordid 100-year history of the ‘two-state solution’")
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...
Warren: US embassy in Israel should be situated in jointly decided capital
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on Thursday that the U.S. embassy in Israel should be decided in negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
She did not say...
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...