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TEL AVIV – The head of a watchdog organization slammed Arab states at a UN Human Rights Council meeting for their “Orwellian” and “false” claims of Israeli “apartheid” while Arab nations have practiced apartheid against Jews for decades.

For the third time in two years, students at Ohio State University (OSU) rejected a motion calling for divestment from companies that engage in business with Israel.

TEL AVIV – Legislation blocking anti-Israel boycott activists from entering the country passed at the Knesset with 46-28 in the final reading on Monday.

Hundreds of Jews, trying to pray at the tomb of one of the greatest Jewish leaders of all time. Sneaking into an Arab village. In the dead of night.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed Saturday that “no street in the State of Israel will be named after Yasser Arafat,” after it was discovered through the navigation application Waze that an Arab-Israeli village in Israel’s north had named a road for the late Palestinian leader.

TEL AVIV – The leader of a Palestinian terrorist group in Lebanon called for an “all-out war” with Israel and Jordan, in which Iranian soldiers would fight to “liberate Palestine.”

TEL AVIV – Iran and Hezbollah, along with other armed groups aiding Damascus in the Syrian civil war, will leave as soon as the war is over, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister told the Jerusalem Post on Monday.

JERUSALEM – A senior official from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party sanctioned “armed struggle” as the “indisputable” right of Palestinians in order to “liberate our homeland.”

TEL AVIV – A Sudanese cleric and politician has called for his country to declare a truce with Israel, saying that Sharia law permits it and that prolonging the boycott was only harming Sudan and not the Jewish state.

On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton discussed the significance of President Trump’s apparent openness to a “one-state” rather than “two-state” solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Minister of Education praised a “new era” and the end of a Palestinian state following President Donald Trump’s remarks that a two-state solution may not be the only way to end the conflict with the Palestinians.

JERUSALEM – Working with Arab nations is the key to peace with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the White House press conference Wednesday, while President Donald Trump concurred, calling the idea “terrific.”

TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin on Monday said he supports the full annexation of the West Bank so long as Palestinians residing there are granted equal rights and Israeli citizenship.

TEL AVIV – Germany cancelled an upcoming summit between its government and Israel’s, reportedly as a result of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s growing frustration with settlement activity.

TEL AVIV – The American people made a historic mistake in democratically electing President Donald Trump just as the Germans did when they elected Hitler and Gaza Palestinians did with their election of Hamas, a Palestinian columnist said, joining a chorus of Palestinian commentators who are slamming the new president as a “fascist,” “lunatic,” and “megalomaniac.”

TEL AVIV – Palestinian United Nations employees are using social media to praise Hitler, Hamas and terrorists responsible for attacks against Israelis, UN Watch said in a new report presented to a joint Congressional subcommittee on Sunday.

The IDF last week conducted a five-day drill simulating a confrontation with Hamas including infiltrations by Hamas commandos from the land, sea and air.

Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro wrote that moving the US embassy to Jerusalem can be undertaken even before Israel and the Palestinians reach a peace deal, reversing his position on the matter since the Obama administration left the White House.

A Saudi journalist in a recent column called on the Palestinians to negotiate in earnest with Israel because their reliance on so-called armed resistance constitutes “political suicide” and the Arab world is losing interest in their cause.

The administration of new U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing executive orders that aim to minimize the role the U.S. plays in the UN and other international bodies, including organizations supporting the Palestinians or in which the Palestinian Authority has official representatives.

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney discussed the Trump administration’s opening national-security moves with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to discuss the prospective relocation of America’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem.

Israel will fight its next war “with full force,” Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday, adding that the Israeli army will not stop fighting the next conflict until its enemy surrenders completely.

Israeli Minister for Social Equality Gila Gamliel condemned the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement during a European Union conference on Monday.

The Associated Press reported Monday that former President Barack Obama released $221 million in U.S. funding for the Palestinian Authority on the morning of Friday, January 20 — just hours before he was to leave office.

Numerous unconfirmed reports are circulating in the international media that President Donald Trump intends announcing Monday that he will relocate the U.S. embassy to Israel from the coastal city of Tel Aviv to the capital city of Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Municipality approved the construction of 566 new homes in East Jerusalem on Sunday, in a vote that had been pushed back from December in order to avoid angering the outgoing administration of former US president Barack Obama.

Foreign ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Thursday indirectly condemned plans by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Authority has issued dozens of threats against the planned move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, warning that such an act would bring war and an end to all previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman this week called on the Palestinian residents of Gaza to overthrow their Hamas rulers, promising that Israeli support and assistance for Gazan civilians will be forthcoming if the terror group is uprooted.

The incoming Trump administration will be “infested” with pro-Israel figures, Palestinian-American academic Rashid Khalidi said this week.

TEL AVIV – Following three days of reconciliation meetings in Russia, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party has agreed to form a unity government with Gaza-based terror group Hamas.

TEL AVIV – The anti-settlement resolution “inspired the terrorist in Jerusalem” to carry out the truck-ramming attack last week, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump said the Palestinians were “given so much” in last month’s UN Security Council resolution that the prospects of a peace deal under his watch have been made that much more difficult.  

TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump confirmed that his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner will work to “broker a Middle East peace deal.”

TEL AVIV – The Paris peace summit on Sunday, in which neither Israel nor the Palestinians were represented, was “like having marriage counseling with neither the husband nor the wife present,” a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told BBC News.