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TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his “profound gratitude” to President Donald Trump for declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel and for announcing that the U.S. embassy would move there from its current location in Tel Aviv.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian factions have announced three “days of rage” beginning Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s announcement to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to transfer the American embassy from Tel Aviv.

TEL AVIV – African embassies in Israel may follow the U.S.’ lead and move their embassies to Jerusalem, an official from Tanzania said in the wake of news that President Donald Trump intends to formally recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.

TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia has reportedly endorsed a U.S. peace proposal that adheres closely to Israel’s vision while ignoring core demands on the Palestinian side, the New York Times reported.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Arab leaders in the region, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II that he intends to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday brushed off fears of a Palestinian reprisal should President Donald Trump formally declare Jerusalem as the Israeli capital or relocate the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv, saying Israel “will know how to deal” with any resulting violence.

US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday that he did not know whether President Donald Trump would decide to relocate his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump reportedly became “agitated and exasperated” at the lack of action on his campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, with sources telling The Washington Post that the White House may compromise by formally declaring Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is waging a diplomatic campaign reeling in world leaders in an effort to prevent a formal declaration by President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The Palestinians have frozen all meetings with the United States after it decided to close their representative office in Washington, officials said on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – A children’s alphabet book titled “P is for Palestine” has had women from New York’s Upper East Side up in arms over what they say is nothing more than anti-Semitic propaganda.

TEL AVIV – Rocker Nick Cave said his decision to perform in Israel on Sunday and Monday was the direct result of the BDS movement which “bullies and censors” musicians.

Addressing an inter-Arab forum on Tuesday, Syrian President Bashar Assad denounced the 2011 “Arab Spring” uprisings as a triumph for “extremism” over “Arab identity,” described the Muslim Brotherhood as an English plot to undermine pan-Arab nationalism, and said there should be no conflict between Arabism and Islam.

TEL AVIV – Our martyrs will not stop fighting for Palestine until it is completely purged of the Jews, senior religious adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared at a recent conference held in India.

TEL AVIV – Boy George shot down claims from BDS activists that his performance in Tel Aviv Tuesday night was tantamount to performing in South Africa during apartheid, saying the two weren’t comparable and that Israel was in his heart.

TEL AVIV – A five-year-old Palestinian boy was caught at an Israeli prison trying to smuggle ten cellphones in his underwear to give to his father, a convicted Fatah terrorist, and other security prisoners at the facility.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he won’t forget how the British reneged on the decision to fulfill the Balfour Declaration but added that it still provided the impetus for the world to acknowledge the Jewish people’s right to the land of Israel.

TEL AVIV – Nick Cave and his band are the latest targets of Roger Waters bullying campaign aimed at preventing the singer from playing in “apartheid” Israel next month.

TEL AVIV – The United Nation’s global tourism body has appointed as its special ambassador a Jordanian businessman accused of anti-Semitism and peddling “solutions” to the Israeli-Arab conflict such as the ethnic cleansing of Jews.

TEL AVIV – The editors of the University of California’s student newspaper issued an apology and retraction for publishing a Nazi-themed cartoon last week.

The IDF sealed off 10 tunnels under the security barrier in the West Bank near the city of Hebron, after dozens of Palestinians reportedly managed to illegally cross into Israeli territory through the passages over the past few weeks.

TEL AVIV – Palestinians are rallying in protest around the world demanding that Britain apologize for the Balfour Declaration – a hundred-year-old document that Palestinians blame for leading to the establishment of the State of Israel, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The University of California Berkeley’s student newspaper has drawn ire for publishing a cartoon featuring an anti-Semitic caricature of former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz using Nazi-era imagery.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian city showed its gratitude to Saddam Hussein by unveiling a memorial and naming a street after the late Iraqi dictator, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported on Friday.

67 Palestinians from the Palestinian town of Beit Awwa were stopped in an apparent attempt to steal including tens of tons of agricultural produce.

President Donald Trump told former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in an interview broadcast on TBN Saturday that he would not move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem until he had tried to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

NEW YORK – American Jewish groups have slammed Interpol for for granting ‘Palestine’ entry to the international police organization as a full member state.

NEW YORK – The U.S. will not honor Palestinian arrest warrants issued through Interpol, a senior official in Washington said following the international police organization’s vote to include ‘Palestine’ as a full member state.

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) official TV station this week re-aired a sermon by an imam in an educational position in which he claims that late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would celebrate his birthday by urging Israelis to murder ten Palestinian children “before the end of the day.”

TEL AVIV – Israel is working to prevent the Palestinian Authority’s latest campaign to become a full member state in international bodies, this time by blocking its lobby to join Interpol.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Saudi Arabia should lead a delegation to Israel as part of a triangular initiative that would help jump-start the frozen peace process, former US envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross said.

TEL AVIV – Pro-Palestinian activists at the University of California, Irvine, have been put on disciplinary probation for two academic years over disrupting an event hosted by a pro-Israel campus group by chanting anti-Israel slurs.

TEL AVIV — Speaking in a radio broadcast, Aaron Klein, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior reporter, slammed the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, as “distorting history” and perpetuating a “fake” refugee crisis as a threat to Israel.

In the wake of the July 14 terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, when three Israeli-Arab terrorists shot and killed two Israeli-Druze police officers at the Temple Mount compound, several prominent Arabic-speaking journalists condemned the attack and called on the Palestinians to abandon the path of violence.

TEL AVIV – Support from Iraq amid Arab turmoil over the Temple Mount has continued to pour into Israel, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

A one-year-old baby was lightly wounded on Sunday when Palestinians threw rocks at a bus he was traveling in with his mother in the West Bank.