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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 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on expressed support for the Trump administration’s threats to cut funding to the UN’s Palestinian “refugee” agency, declaring the agency “must pass away.”

The Trump administration has reportedly suspended $125 million in aid for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the special UN agency that deals specifically with Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war against Israel.

Israel on Friday released a Palestinian woman on bail after she was charged with assaulting an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank following a viral video of the incident.

US Ambassador David Friedman criticized the Palestinian reaction to US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, describing the response as provocative, unnecessary, and “anti-Semitic.”

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Fatah party posted a “rock throwing 101” guide for children on its Twitter account next to a picture of a Palestinian boy throwing rocks.

TEL AVIV — The party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has posted an image on social media comparing U.S. President Donald Trump to Hitler, a low point in its smear campaign against the United States following Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

A top IDF officer said over the weekend that Palestinian reports claiming an IDF sniper shot a wheelchair-bound Palestinian protester are not based on facts.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “several countries” are considering moving their embassies to Jerusalem after President Trump’s decision to recognize the city as the capital of Israel.

The Palestinian Authority’s television station aired a segment last week in which a girl recites an openly anti-Semitic poem, a nonprofit monitoring the Palestinian media reported.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinians will seek full membership in the United Nations and join dozens of additional international organizations in response to the recent US policy changes on Jerusalem.

President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has not gone over well in Indonesia, but on Tuesday Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that a boycott against the United States would be “misguided.”

Palestinian officials will not meet with any American diplomats during future negotiations, in protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Times of Israel on Sunday.

New York Times resident conservative columnist Ross Douthat, who was a “NeverTrump” pundit during the 2016 election, has acknowledged President Donald Trump’s success in defeating the so-called “Islamic State” — and says Trump deserves credit for his foreign policy overall.

The Palestinian Fatah movement has been calling on Palestinians to riot and to express their “rage” over US Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a leading think tank reported on Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump is being compared to the British Lord Balfour – in a non-flattering manner – by Palestinian officials following his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday announced nebulous plans for his country to build an embassy to an independent Palestinian state in east Jerusalem.

Israeli troops, in raids across the West Bank overnight Tuesday, arrested 32 Palestinians for suspected involvement in terror activities and violent rioting, as well as a senior Hamas figure, security forces said.

Qasem Soleimani, a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in charge of the notorious Quds Force, reportedly offered Iranian support to Palestinian forces in the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The government of Turkey is staking out a hardline position against President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. On Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the United States a “partner in bloodshed” with Israel, which he denounced as a “child-murderer state.” On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu needled Arab states for their “very weak responses” on Jerusalem.

Iran has vowed to support Hamas in its fight against Israel, following the US announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, announced by US President Donald Trump last week.

Speaking from a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil called for “pre-emptive measures” against the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. He said this should begin with “diplomatic measures” and then proceed to “political, then economic and financial sanctions” against the United States.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered a dramatic speech decrying Israel as a “terror state” and “child-killer state” on Sunday and accusing American President Donald Trump of using an “Evangelist understanding” of Israel to accept Jerusalem as the capital of the state.

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.

The Facebook page belonging to the Palestinian terrorist who stabbed and critically wounded a security guard in the chest in Jerusalem on Sunday was full of angry posts condemning President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

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 – Any Palestinian violence resulting from President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital will be short-lived, a former senior White House official said on Wednesday.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met on Thursday with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman in order to coordinate a response to US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital a day earlier.

It’s safe to say that people around the world are very excited by President Donald Trump’s decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and begin the process of moving the American embassy there. Here are some of the most excitable folks and their reactions to the announcement.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian journalist has criticized the outcry from his brethren surrounding President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying their rage, while justified, is futile.

Lycee Franco-Libanais Verdun, a French private school in Lebanon, apologized on Wednesday for a teacher who required students to identify Israel as “Israel” instead of “Palestine” during a geography lesson.

Palestinian Authority responses to President Trump’s official recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel have included fiery denunciations, canceling school, calling for demonstrations, telling the students who are not in school to participate in those demonstrations, and turning off the lights on Christmas trees.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem had nothing to do with the peace process that he is still hoping to resume in the coming months, White House officials said on Thursday, adding that the Palestinians’ “short-term