DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Communications Minister Ayoub Kara called for “peace and security” on Tuesday during a visit to the United Arab Emirates, as Israel launches an unprecedented diplomatic push into Gulf states.
Jordan said Thursday it’s decision to end a pair of land leases with Israel would not affect the decades-old peace agreement between the countries, seeking to calm fears in Jerusalem that ties could be downgraded.
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration’s November 4 sanctions will not prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb, but they will result in significantly reducing the regime’s ability to finance terror in the region, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Sunday night.
TEL AVIV – Hamas has defied an Egyptian demand to cease the violent weekly border protests between the Gaza Strip and Israel, Palestinian sources said on Saturday.
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s King Abdullah II says he has decided not to renew parts of his country’s landmark peace treaty with Israel.
TEL AVIV – Amid sharp objections from the Palestinian leadership, the European Union on Sunday supported United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov’s efforts to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
The Palestinian leadership will no longer work with the United Nation’s peace envoy, a senior official said Thursday, accusing him of overstepping his role by seeking a deal between Israel and terror group Hamas.
WASHINGTON — The United States will refuse any additional reconstruction assistance to war-torn Syria so long as Iranian troops are present in the country, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he will examine the new US peace plan, expected to be revealed by the Trump administration in the coming months, with “a keen and open mind.”
Israeli claims that Tehran harbours a secret atomic warehouse were roundly dismissed by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday.
Israeli ministers on Thursday accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of rejecting peace and embracing terror in his speech to the United Nations, saying it showed he is only interested in revenge and cannot be entrusted with a Palestinian state.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver “new information” in his speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly, according to a close associate of the Israeli leader.
The US has decided to freeze all bank accounts belonging to the (Palestine Liberation Organization) PLO in the country as the White House ramps up pressure on the Palestinians to enter into peace talks with Israel, according to a report in Al Jazeera on Sunday evening.
The Palestinian Authority on Saturday accused US presidential adviser Jared Kushner of “ignorance,” following statements in which he said that recent US punitive measures against the Palestinians won’t hurt chances for a peace deal in the Middle East.
TEL AVIV – Twenty Palestinian activists on Wednesday stormed a meeting of Palestinians and Israelis who had gathered for a conference at the American Colony Hotel in east Jerusalem to mark the 25th anniversary of the Oslo peace accords.
TEL AVIV – A majority of Palestinians reject outright President Donald Trump’s peace proposal sight unseen, according to a new poll published Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hailed President Donald Trump for his “correct” decision to shutter the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington DC citing a Palestinian refusal to advance peace.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian envoy to Washington said that he and his staff had been ordered to pack up his office within the month following President Donald Trump’s decision to shutter the local Palestine Liberation Organization mission.
The Trump administration plans to announce the closure of the Palestinian mission in Washington in response to the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to enter peace negotiations, according to multiple reports on Monday.
Sunni Arab nations want closer ties with Israel and “it is actually the Palestinian Authority that is standing in their way,” contended Breitbart Jerusalem chief Aaron Klein.
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 – The U.S. has “thrown more than $10 billion” in aid to the Palestinians, but despite that we are no closer to peace, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said Tuesday, adding that the Palestinian Authority has used large sums of that money in terrorist payments.
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.”
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami on Monday charged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was keeping the Middle East in a perpetual state of conflict in order to damage the Iranian economy.
TEL AVIV – U.S. and Israeli officials on Wednesday attempted to downplay President Donald Trump’s remark a day earlier saying Israel would pay “a higher price” in any negotiations with the Palestinians as a result of the U.S.’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
JERUSALEM – US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser arrived in Israel on Sunday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a time of shared concerns over Syria, Iran and the Gaza Strip.
Top White House official John Bolton will visit Israel for talks next week, the Trump administration said Tuesday.
Wrapping up a four-hour meeting on Gaza, Israel’s high-level security cabinet on Thursday instructed the military to “continue acting forcefully” against terror groups in the Strip, amid an intense flare-up in violence over the last day that saw the worst exchange of fire since the 2014 war.
TEL AVIV – Israeli ambassador to the UN urged Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council to condemn Hamas following the firing of over 180 rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Tuesday he would reluctantly comply with renewed US sanctions on neighboring Iran, but recalled his country’s 12 years under international embargo.
A senior Hamas member signaled the terror group was optimistic regarding efforts to broker a ceasefire with Israel Tuesday, saying talks on an agreement would likely wrap up by the end of August.
Hamas said on Sunday it was “disgusted” by the stance its rivals in Fatah have taken toward Egyptian and UN efforts to end the crisis in the Gaza Strip, and charged Fatah with wanting Gaza to remain under siege and shelling.
The ruling Palestinian Fatah faction on Saturday warned Hamas against reaching a cease-fire agreement with Israel in return for humanitarian and economic aid to the Gaza Strip and said such a deal would be a “free gift to Israel.”
Exiled terrorist members of Gaza’s ruling Hamas decision-making bureau have entered the territory for discussions about an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire deal with Israel.
The European Union (E.U.) must do more to help deliver peace in the Middle East, and needs to back-up its standing commitments with actions and funding, Iran’s Foreign Minister Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif said.
The United States and Russia will work together to ensure Israel’s security, US President Donald Trump said on Monday after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat slammed President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying “real estate men” will never solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Saturday that freedom for Iran was “around the corner” and indicated that the administration intended to prompt the ouster of its “dictatorial ayatollahs” by forcing Tehran into economic isolation.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has greenlighted mass protests in the West Bank against President Donald Trump’s soon-to-be-unveiled peace proposal.
The Duke of Cambridge has completed the first Royal visit to Israel and the West Bank by revealing he is personally determined to bring peace to the Middle East.
