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Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians’ chief negotiator and a global leader in the effort to boycott Israel, is reported to be on a waiting list for a lung transplant in Israel.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced a five-year Jerusalem development plan during a special cabinet meeting held in the Western Wall tunnels in honor of the 50th anniversary since the unification of the capital since the Six Day War.

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration is gearing up for major cuts in U.S. foreign aid across the world with the notable exception of the Palestinian territories which will receive increased funding, State Department documents obtained by Foreign Policy magazine show.

Senior Palestinian officials say Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will travel to the US to meet with President Donald Trump next month, during which the American leader will propose that the Palestinians restart peace negotiations with Israel in exchange for a freeze on Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank and a promise not to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

WASHINGTON – The Palestine Liberation Organization has settled on a plan to forcefully counter the Trump administration should it choose to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday.

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.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denounced the Paris peace summit as “pointless” and the “final palpitations” of yesterday’s world.

TEL AVIV – If President-elect Donald J Trump makes good on his promise to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, it would be considered “a declaration of war” on all Muslims, the Palestinian Authority’s supreme Sharia judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash declared on Friday.

TEL AVIV – An Egyptian newspaper published what it said were leaked transcripts of alleged secret meetings between senior White House officials – including Secretary of State John Kerry – and the Palestinian Authority that purport to show that the Obama administration

Contents: Palestinians declare a defeat for the forces of darkness; Statements by diplomats show they live in fantasyland; Israel’s Netanyahu orders retaliation against the United Nations

TEL AVIV — President-elect Donald Trump “remains firmly committed” to moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his transition team said.

TEL AVIV – A senior delegation from the Palestinian Authority will visit Washington with the hopes of meeting President-elect Donald Trump and to urge President Barack Obama to use his final weeks in office to take steps towards reviving the moribund peace process.

TEL AVIV – While one critic has called Donald Trump’s election victory “the greatest win for anti-Semitism” since World War II,  senior Palestinian officials are dubbing the president-elect a “Zionist” and “racist.”

Palestinian leaders Monday accused Donald Trump of abandoning any hope of a two-state solution after the Republican candidate said he would recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s “undivided” capital if he won the US presidential election.

Palestinian officials have recently met with White House stuff to discuss the prospect of launching a new American effort to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations after November’s presidential elections, a Palestinian source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat drew parallels Saturday between the recent spate of terror attacks claimed by the Islamic State in Europe and Israeli actions in the West Bank.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is refusing to condemn the ongoing wave of Palestinian terrorism, including the murder of a 13-year-old Israeli girl on Thursday and a father of 10 on Friday, and is also eschewing phone calls from world leaders demanding that he denounce the attacks.

France’s president said on Friday that upheaval across the Middle East meant previous Israel-Palestinian peacemaking efforts were no longer as relevant and major powers needed to work together to bring the two sides back to the table.

TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian Authority officials told a group of British lawmakers on Wednesday that the MPs were responsible for causing the entire Israel-Palestine conflict, the Times of Israel reported. “It’s difficult to see that these people could be

JAFFA, Israel – PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (pictured) has called on the British government to discontinue its punitive measures against universities and public associations that support boycotting Israel. Erekat condemned the British policy in a meeting with the British Secretary of

TEL AVIV – A Left-leaning Meretz official accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of giving the French “the middle finger” following France’s threat to recognize Palestine in the absence of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

The United States, European Union and the United Nations have issued unusually stern criticism of Israel, provoking a sharp response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and raising Palestinians’ hopes of steps against their neighbor. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday

A senior aide for the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was arrested by PA security forces on suspicion of spying for Israel. In an interview about the arrest, Erekat said Netanyahu has destroyed the Arab’s “culture of peace.” Erekat

The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian Authority Security forces in Ramallah have arrested a top aide to PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (pictured) on suspicion of collaboration with Israel, according to a report in a Palestinian online newspaper. The aide, who worked for

JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who claimed to be on the cusp of a historic peace deal with the Palestinians just a few years ago, now is set to become the first Israeli leader to go to

The Palestinian Authority leadership is expected to meet in the coming days to discuss the future of its relations with Israel, PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said on Sunday. Erekat said that he expected the meeting to take place before the

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ health has significantly deteriorated in recent days, prompting him to cancel numerous meetings, according to a source in the office of the Palestinian leader.

Contents: Violence in Jerusalem increases after Abbas’s UN speech; Abbas’s UN speech raises concerns about a Palestinian ‘third intifada’

J Street, a left-wing organization that was founded by liberal Jews to counter traditional pro-Israel advocacy in Congress, has crossed the line into hate group status with its invitation to Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat to address its conference later this month.

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