TEL AVIV – A Washington Post columnist slammed Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar for falsely accusing Israel of denying them entry because they are Muslim and “implementing Trump’s Muslim ban,” saying instead that the two women were barred from visiting because they are antisemites.
TEL AVIV – Israel is actively promoting the emigration of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, including providing financial aid and finding host countries willing to absorb them, a senior Israeli official accompanying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his current trip to Ukraine said Monday.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian leadership has banned members of the local LGBTQ community from holding any activities or events in the West Bank because they are “damaging” to the fabric of Palestinian society.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) grandmother hit back at President Trump this week for calling her the “real winner” after Tlaib chose not to visit her in Israel.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) admitted in a series of tweets Friday that the purpose of her trip to Israel centered around “witness[ing] firsthand what is happening on the ground in Palestine” — just as Israeli leadership originally suggested — and called for the U.S. to use aid as “leverage” against Israel.
Israel’s interior minister blasted Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for rejecting the Jewish state’s offer to allow the far-left congresswoman to visit relatives in Israel’s West Bank, saying her “hatred” for the country outweighs her love for her grandmother.
TEL AVIV – A 19-year-old yeshiva student and IDF soldier was stabbed to death and his body found in the West Bank early Thursday morning, prompting a massive manhunt for the teen’s killer.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian man who received death threats because he saved the children of a West Bank rabbi after the latter had been killed in a terror attack was awarded Israeli residency Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – A majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza oppose the Palestinian leadership’s sight-unseen rejection of the Trump-administration’s peace plan and would prefer a “wait-and-see” approach, according to a new poll by the Palestine Center for Public Opinion led by Dr. Nabil Kukali.
TEL AVIV – While not explicitly endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Tuesday said the Trump administration’s long-anticipated peace proposal promotes “Palestinian autonomy” and “civilian self governance.”
TEL AVIV – In a move that has been blasted as illegal by critics, Canada’s Federal Court on Monday ruled that Israeli wines from West Bank settlements can no longer be labeled “Made in Israel.”
An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the special U.N. agency for Palestinian “refugees” one year after the Trump administration suspended a $125 million contribution to its work.
Nearly 50% of Palestinians living in Gaza believe the best means of ending the “occupation” is through armed conflict, according to a report released Monday by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR).
Last week the Associated Press ran a hit job on a successful American businessman. Simon Falic and his two brothers own the Duty Free Americas chain, a private company that runs duty free stores in airports throughout the United States and Latin America.
TEL AVIV – A German government contractor, who is also a representative of Amnesty International, delivered an anti-Semitic speech in which she accused Israel of “executing” peaceful Palestinian protesters and blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the recent influx of refugees into Europe, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The White House released its economic plan that would create a global investment fund to bring prosperity to Palestinian territories.
The Trump administration’s $50 billion Middle East economic plan calls for creation of a global investment fund to lift the Palestinian and neighboring Arab state economies, and construction of a $5 billion transportation corridor to connect the West Bank and Gaza, according to U.S. officials and documents reviewed by Reuters.
David Friedman’s position on Israel retaining parts of Judea and Samara was the same as every U.S. administration except Obama’s.
TEL AVIV – Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely on Sunday called for extending full Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank region known as Area C.
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg promised, if elected president, to cut U.S. aid to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed through on an election promise to annex parts of Judea and Samara — the “West Bank.”
TEL AVIV – In a case of mistaken identity, IDF soldiers exchanged heavy fire with Palestinian security forces in the northern West Bank city of Nablus overnight Tuesday.
TEL AVIV — Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Sunday praised the U.S. ambassador to Israel’s comments saying that Israel “has the right” to annex some of the West Bank.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian street is fuming over news that the Palestinian Authority secretly signed off on massive salary hikes and other perks for government ministers at a time when the Palestinian labor market was going through major cutbacks amid an economic crisis.
On Thursday, Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg spent much of the day regurgitating Barack Obama’s old, failed anti-Israel policies.
TEL AVIV – Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was ripped to pieces on social media after posting a selfie with Roger Waters on a private jet with an accompanying text extolling the Pink Floyd frontman’s “empathy” and “personal risk” in standing up for the Palestinians.
Qatar says it will send $480 million to Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after a cease-fire deal ended the deadliest fighting between Israel and Palestinian factions since a 2014 war between the two sides.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated peace plan is an effort to “think out of the box and capture the imagination and hopes of both sides for a better life,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
While conservative Jewish American groups congratulated Israelis for their open democracy, liberal American Jewish groups responded to the Israeli election results by throwing a collective fit
Israeli forces destroyed two apartments in the West Bank early on Friday that housed the family of a Palestinian terrorist who confessed to the brutal murder of an Israeli teen.
TEL AVIV – The US has for the first time published an international map showing the Golan Heights as part of Israel, three weeks after President Donald Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the territory captured from Syria in 1967.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinians are turning to Russia for help in bypassing the long-anticipated U.S. “deal of the century” for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday.
A senior Palestinian Authority official reportedly warned that Hamas means to exploit the economic situation in the West Bank and pay off PA officers and security forces to take control of the territory.
NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised eyebrows for saying in an interview that cutting U.S. military aid to Israel is “certainly on the table” following the reelection of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s long -awaited peace plan will include major economic and other incentives for Palestinians, but is likely stop short of realizing the vision for the establishment of a Palestinian state, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he did not believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talk of annexing West Bank settlements would hurt President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan.
TEL AVIV – With post-election fever grabbing all the headlines, the sensational story of Airbnb’s total capitulation to demands that it reverse its policy banning Jewish listings in the West Bank has almost slipped under the radar.
Actress and left-wing activist Sarah Silverman called on Israelis to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. is fully aware of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flat rejection of the creation of a Palestinian state along with his plans to annex West Bank settlements, the Israeli premier said on Monday.
Benjamin Netanyahu says ‘coming from a friend’ he expects Trump’s plan will take Israel’s interests into consideration.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed over the weekend to annex West Bank settlements if he is reelected in Tuesday’s elections. The incumbent prime minister also said he had told President Donald Trump that would not evacuate “a single person” from the 400,000 or so Jews residing in the West Bank.
