Jason Greenblatt

Senior Palestinian official and veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat has died in an Israeli hospital after contracting coronavirus. He was 65.

President Trump on Thursday announced the departure of Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt from his administration as he commended the diplomat for his efforts to pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – New Zealand is the latest country to suspend funding to the United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees after a leaked internal report alleged corruption, sexual misconduct, antisemitism, and mismanagement at the agency’s highest levels. 

TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian official accused Israel and the U.S. of a joint conspiracy to “bring down” the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, which included leaking an internal United Nations ethics report alleging corruption, sexual misconduct and mismanagement at the highest levels of the agency.

TEL AVIV – Switzerland and the Netherlands have suspended payments the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees after a leaked internal report alleged corruption, sexual misconduct and mismanagement at the agency’s highest levels. 

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Special Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt has demanded a full UN investigation into its agency for Palestinian refugees after an internal ethics report leaked Monday alleged corruption, sexual misconduct and mismanagement at the highest levels of the agency. 

TEL AVIV – The Palestinians pose a “greater existential threat to the Jewish state of Israel than Iran and Syria,” the director of a Philadelphia-based think tank told Breitbart in a wide-ranging interview on the heels of a new poll that shows the overwhelming majority of Israelis (78%) do not see an end to the conflict in sight. 

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration may release the political portion of its Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal before Israel’s September 17 national elections, special Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt said.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace envoy Jason Greenblatt on Sunday hammered through a wall at the inauguration of a 2,000 year old archaeological site not far from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, drawing ire from the Palestinian leadership which described the American delegation as “extremist fanatic Israeli settlers.”

TEL AVIV – Bahrain’s only synagogue was brought to life on Wednesday morning as President Donald Trump Special Mideast Envoy Jason Greenblatt was joined by Jewish businessmen, reporters, and rabbis for morning prayers on the sidelines of the U.S.-led economic peace workshop. 

JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah party has called for days of violence against Israel in protest over the U.S.-led Bahrain economic peace workshop.

TEL AVIV – Six Israeli media outlets have been given permission to attend and cover next week’s U.S.-led economic peace workshop in Bahrain, days after the White House’s announcement that no Israeli government officials would be allowed to attend.

TEL AVIV – Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely on Sunday called for extending full Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank region known as Area C.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt on Sunday supported comments made last week by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman supporting Israel’s right to retain parts of the West Bank. 

TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated peace proposal might be “unexecutable” and might be seen as a deal that “only the Israelis could love,” in remarks leaked to the Washington Post.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner suggested in an interview that the Palestinians are not ready to govern themselves ahead of the expected unveiling of the U.S. peace proposa

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is in the Middle East to drum up support for his as-yet unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.

TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat reiterated the position that no Palestinian has been given authorization to attend next month’s US-led peace conference in Bahrain, amid reports that Arab countries are pressuring the Palestinians to walk back their rejection of it. 

TEL AVIV – Arab nations are putting pressure on the Palestinians to walk back a rejection of a US-led peace conference in Bahrain next month, according to Palestinian officials cited by the Jerusalem

TEL AVIV — President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt lambasted the Palestinian Authority for shunning a U.S.-led economic workshop in Bahrain next month, saying the Palestinians will be “judged harshly” for rejecting the opportunity for a “brighter future” for themselves. 

To succeed, President Donald Trump’s peace plan must provide Israeli sovereignty over “Area C” in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”).

Condemn Hamas terror rockets against Israel rather than perpetually condemning the Jewish state, U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt said Thursday as he slammed “baffling” anti-Israel sentiment at the U.N. “Instead of seeking accountability for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, terrorist

ASHDOD, SOUTHERN ISRAEL – The U.S. lambasted Gaza-based terror groups for launching hundreds of missiles at civilian populations in Israel, and supported the country’s right to defend itself.

TEL AVIV – The long-anticipated U.S. peace proposal for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not be unveiled before the Muslim holiday of Ramadan is over in June, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner confirmed.

TEL AVIV – The US has for the first time published an international map showing the Golan Heights as part of Israel, three weeks after President Donald Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the territory captured from Syria in 1967.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump told a Jewish audience Saturday that both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main election challenger, Benny Gantz, are “good people” who would be running neck and neck on April 9.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador David Friedman slammed the official Palestinian Authority newspaper for running an opinion piece that described US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East as a “mongoloid,” a derogatory term for a person with Down syndrom

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his vow Saturday to thwart President Donald Trump’s upcoming peace proposal and pledged to continue paying convicted terrorists and their families.

In the aftermath of the deadly shooting massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder warned of the rising tide of anti-Semitism and exclaimed that “we will not let terror win.”

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo teased the Trump administration’s upcoming peace plan on Wednesday as a “truly historic” effort to broker an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, accepting an award from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America in Washington.

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration will never unveil its peace plan and is instead changing the “terms of reference” to Israel’s favor, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat claimed Saturday.

Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, expressed “confidence” on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan will capitalize on thawing ties between the Jewish state and the Arab world.

TEL AVIV – Israel will not support a tripartite confederation with the Palestinians and Jordan, senior Israeli diplomatic officials said Sunday.

TEL AVIV – American Jewish leaders expressed outrage over the place of honor given to virulently antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at Aretha Franklin’s funeral on Friday.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Mideast Envoy Jason Greenblatt on Wednesday slammed the Palestinian Authority for “criticizing from the sidelines” attempts to forge a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and warned the PA to show signs of leadership or “others will fill the void.”

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, held a secret meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ son last September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, veteran Israeli journalist Barak Ravid said.