Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Page 5

The time has come for Israel and the U.S. to let Gaza fail. Helping Gaza economically only encourages Hamas to wage further war.

Zionism is a Jewish conspiracy meant to manipulate Western societies to benefit Jews, according to a majority of 1,007  respondents to a French poll about Jewish nationalism.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is fueling “unrealistic” hopes of return after 70 years and is therefore helping keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict alive, Switzerland’s foreign minister said Thursday.

Daniel Shapiro, the US ambassador to Israel during the Obama administration, said on Saturday that the move initiated by US President Donald Trump to transfer the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem may help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

RIYADH –  Saudi King Salman reaffirmed support for Palestinians to US President Donald Trump, state media said Tuesday, after his son and heir apparent said Israel has a “right” to a homeland.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Germany’s new foreign minister on Monday urged the Palestinians “not to tear down bridges,” an apparent reference to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s contentious relationship with the US.

US President Donald Trump is expected to present his peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, The New York Times reported Monday, citing three Trump administration officials.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian officials and terrorist groups are claiming that the Trump administration’s threat to cut funds to the Palestinian Authority and to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, amounts to a blackmail attempt.

Sweden, a big donor country that has recognized Palestine as a state, warned Tuesday that any US decision to withdraw funds to the UN agency for Palestinians would be destabilising for the Middle East.

TEL AVIV — The foreign minister of Japan has reportedly invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to a four-way peace summit in Tokyo that would also be attended by Jared Kushner, the Trump administration’s point man on efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, released Monday, revises U.S. policy to indicate that while the U.S. is committed to facilitating peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Israel is not the cause of the problems in the Middle East. The relevant

The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution affirming that any change to the status of Jerusalem has no legal effect and must be reversed, in response to the US decision to recognize the city as Israel’s capital.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations to take charge of the Mideast peace process, and revamp it with a new mechanism since Washington is allegedly no longer “fit” for the task.

JERUSALEM – Israel deployed hundreds of additional police officers on Friday following Palestinian calls for protests after the main weekly Muslim prayers against US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized White House aide Jared Kushner’s remarks on the Middle East peace process at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution on Sunday, saying he had erred describing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the key to broader stability in the region.

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.

Seventy-three percent of Israel’s Arabs feel a sense of belonging in the Jewish state and 60 percent are proud to be Israelis, according to a new poll commissioned by Israel Hayom and conducted by the New Wave Research Institute.

TEL AVIV – An Israeli report claiming that the Trump administration had formulated a peace plan recognizing a Palestinian state without evacuating existing West Bank settlements is untrue, American and Israeli officials said.

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 – 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.

Student leaders at the University of Ottawa rejected a motion to support boycotts of Israel on Sunday, marking the ninth consecutive defeat for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign on Canadian campuses over the past two years.

TEL AVIV – Princeton University’s Hillel House cancelled a talk by Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely following protests from a liberal Jewish campus group which accused the foreign minister of racism.

A delegation of senior Hamas officials arrived in Iran Friday on a mission to improve ties between the Palestinian terror group and the Islamic Republic.

JERUSALEM – Official Palestinian Authority recently aired an interview with an actor who depicted one of the “evil Jews” in a 1990s TV show, a role which almost borders on hilarity if it wasn’t so blatantly anti-Semitic.

NEW YORK – A Saudi prince and a former Israeli spy chief will be discussing solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict later this month in New York as part of a series of unconventional meetups in cities all over the U.S., The Times of Israel reported.

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt called on the Palestinian leadership on Monday to recognize Israel and commit to nonviolence as a precondition to resuming negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Retired Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday encouraged university students not to back down from difficult discussions surrounding Israel on campus, urging them to make complex, cogent cases rooted in history when faced with propagandistic attacks.

UN Secretary General António Guterres on Tuesday opened his first General Assembly speech with a call to renew steps toward a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel’s prime minister says the country is enjoying its greatest relations ever with the Arab world, even without a peace accord with the Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. and Israel are in agreement when it comes to eliminating any Iranian military presence in Syria, U.S. Ambassador David Friedman said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

Sudanese minister said any possible normalization of ties between Sudan and Israel would be “no big deal” and that Palestinians bear a large responsibility of the blame in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ankara, and said finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be beneficial to both sides.

The Palestinian Authority reportedly plans to give White House envoy Jared Kushner an ultimatum when he visits Ramallah on Thursday: deliver Israeli concessions in 45 days, or we blow up the peace process and go to the UN.

TEL AVIV – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday thanked allies Iran, Hezbollah and Russia for helping him overcome Western attempts for his ouster and added that he would not be restoring diplomatic ties with countries that support “terrorist” opposition groups in Syria.

Israeli police arrested on Tuesday a firebrand Islamic cleric accused of inciting violence in connection with deadly tensions last month at a Jerusalem holy site.