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TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Tuesday slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for “running away” from negotiations after the Palestinian leader abruptly left the room following his Security Council speech.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority formed a committee on Tuesday that will plan a “disengagement” from Israel, including replacing the Israeli shekel with another form of currency – possibly a Palestinian one.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt is a “Zionist” who has “no chance of succeeding” in securing peace in the region, the Palestinian Authority said Monday, after Greenblatt slammed the Palestinian leadership for “walking away” from negotiations and “lecturing” the U.S. on its decisions regarding aid money.

TEL AVIV – Ties between the U.S. and the Palestinian Authority have been suspended as a result of President Donald Trump’s December decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a senior White House official said Tuesday, amid other reports that the PA was now willing to include the U.S. as part of a multilateral bid for statehood.

TEL AVIV – In a landmark speech in the Israeli Knesset Monday, Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration would relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by the end of 2019.

TEL AVIV – Vice President Mike Pence asked Egypt and Jordan to reach out to the Palestinians on behalf of the U.S. in an attempt to bridge ties following President Donald Trump’s Jerusalem declaration, Bloomberg news reported on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Welcoming Vice President Mike Pence to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said it was the first time in history that he could stand side by side with another world leader and both could identify Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Monday urged UN Secretary-General to issue a condemnation to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for his racism and denial of any Jewish ties to Israel.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian leaders on Monday called for the suspension of recognition of Israel in response to President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday said that President Donald Trump’s “ultimate deal” for peace was a slap in the face for the Palestinians, cursing out the U.S. chief executive by wishing ruin upon his house.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction praised the Tuesday murder of a rabbi in the West Bank with a poem celebrating the attack using statistics.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday praised the U.S. Ambassador to Israel for blaming the lack of peace on the Palestinians’ endorsement of terror.

TEL AVIV – Backed by the Arab League, the Palestinian leadership is going ahead with its plan to seek recognition as a full member state in the United Nations in response President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump remains committed to brokering “the ultimate peace deal” between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but he won’t “tolerate falsehoods being spread about America” and will not fund those who spread them, a senior White House official said on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – In the wake of attacks against European Jews following President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Sunday condemned “well-rooted” anti-semitism in his own country, adding that “the ideology of hate” was “alive” and causing French Jews to immigrate to Israel out of fear.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s “historic” recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “makes peace possible,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed European “hypocrisy” and “double standards,” saying EU leaders were quick to condemn President Donald Trump for his recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital but remained silent in the face of retaliatory rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian rioters used an ambulance as a human shield during violent clashes in Ramallah on Saturday, the IDF said.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during the latter’s visit to the region later this month in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian factions have announced three “days of rage” beginning Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s announcement to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to transfer the American embassy from Tel Aviv.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Arab leaders in the region, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II that he intends to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Moderate Arab states including Egypt and Saudi Arabia are pushing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations with Israel as part of a wider strategy to confront the region’s growing threat from Iran, a senior Egyptian official told the daily Israel Hayom on Monday.

TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that he must either accept a proposal being drafted by the Trump administration aimed at reaching a final status solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or resign, Israel’s Channel 10 reported.

TEL AVIV – During Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ surprise summons to Saudi Arabia last week, the PA’s official daily published anti-Iran articles claiming the Islamic Republic was spreading its “tentacles” by appropriating the Palestinian cause as part of its ongoing attempts at regional hegemony.

TEL AVIV – Palestinians may revert to endorsing a one-state solution for Arabs and Jews – a scenario that would mean the end of the Jewish state – if the now “endangered” two-state solution fails, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday.

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration has begun drafting a proposal based on a two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The New York Times cited analysts and officials as saying on Saturday.

TEL AVIV – Former secretary of state John Kerry accused Israel of not wanting peace and added that the Palestinians have been “extraordinary” in their commitment to nonviolence but that the Jewish state would face another bout of attacks if there wasn’t any progress in negotiations.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has denied a report citing Israeli politicians as saying that Abbas would not appoint Hamas figures to the unity government if they did not publicly recognize Israel.

JERUSALEM – In the aftermath of Friday’s Temple Mount terror attack in which two Israeli policemen were killed by Arab-Israeli gunmen, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction rebroadcast Abbas’ 2014 call to stop the Jews from “defiling” Muslim holy sites using “in any way whatsoever.”

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority expressed surprise and disappointment at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s for failing to include Ramallah as a stop during his three-day trip to Israel.

JERUSALEM — Speaking at a joint press conference today with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, U.S. President Donald Trump condemned the “evil losers” who carried out last night’s bombing of a pop concert in Manchester in which at least 22 people were murdered.

JERUSALEM – Ahead of President Donald Trump’s proposed meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas next week in Bethlehem, official PA TV broadcast a child reciting a poem encouraging Palestinians to go to “war” in order “to smash the oppression and destroy the Zionist’s soul.”

TEL AVIV – Jordan’s Foreign Minister said Saturday that Arab countries would ensure Israel’s security in a future peace deal with the Palestinians as long as it withdraws from the West Bank.

TEL AVIV – Israel is waging war against the Muslim world with drugs and “sex mania,” a leading Islamic cleric appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a TV sermon this week.

JERUSALEM – The real meaning of “The Promised Land” is the place where Allah will fulfill his promise to exterminate all the Jews, a Palestinian woman said on Fatah TV.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East held a three-hour meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, his second meeting with the Israeli leader since arriving in the country this week.