TEL AVIV – Bahrain’s foreign minister came under fire from critics in the Arab world who said that his decision to speak to Israeli media constituted “normalization” with Israel, an accusation the top diplomat rejected.
TEL AVIV – Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Tuesday said previously attempts to broker a two-state solution had “failed” and the long-anticipated “deal of the century” would be different.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority should not accept a larger regional peace initiative that does not aim to create a Palestinian state, senior Fatah official and member of the movement’s Revolutionary Council, Ahmad Guneim, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
TEL AVIV — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas outright lied to Donald Trump’s face at a joint appearance at the White House earlier this week in which the two addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, charged Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein during his regular segment on the national John Batchelor Show.
Key Arab states on Thursday expressed their support for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the two-state solution, which he laid out a day earlier in a long, comprehensive speech in Washington.
TEL AVIV – A Saudi Arabian lobbyist in the U.S. has called for “a collaborative alliance” between the Kingdom and Israel, citing “an historic opportunity” that would benefit both countries economically as well as improve relations in the entire region.
A retired Saudi general who visited Israel last week and met Israeli officials as head of a delegation of academics and businessmen, denied Tuesday that the trip was part of efforts to normalize ties between Jerusalem and Riyadh.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris Saturday afternoon.
A retired Saudi general visited Israel this week, heading a delegation of academics and businessmen seeking to encourage discussion of the Saudi-led Arab Peace Initiative.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly to meet early next week with US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Likud ministers Monday that he will never accept the original Arab Peace Initiative as a basis for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, according to two sources at the meeting.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not demand revisions to the 2002 Arab Peace Plan when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – The rightwing Knesset Land of Israel caucus announced its intention to draw up a bill for the annexation of Ma’aleh Adumim, citing a poll showing that 78 percent of Israelis are in favor of full Israeli sovereignty over the settlement.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Chairman of the Zionist Union party and lead opposition figure in the Knesset MK Isaac Herzog revealed on Saturday that both he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a number of discussions over the past several months concerning the so called “Arab Peace Initiative,” expressing his desire to move on favorable aspects of the plan that “would have undoubtedly changed the face of the region.”
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia will open an embassy in Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepts the Arab Peace Initiative, an influential retired Saudi major general said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East is a failure, but he is responsible for at least one accidental success: bringing Israel and Saudi Arabia, once implacable foes, together in opposition to his agenda. On Thursday, Israel’s Dore Gold, the incoming director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appeared in Washington, DC at the Council on Foreign Relations alongisde Anwar Majed Eshki, a former adviser to the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., and revealed secret Israeli-Saudi talks on Iran.
