By Aryeh Savir & Baruch Yedid / Tazpit News Agency
Abbas has previously threatened to sever all their and end all treaties signed with Israel on several occasions.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Much remains unclear as to how Israel will progress with the implementation of this plan.
All activities and building by Israel in Jerusalem and Hebron, even when it benefits the Arab population, are condemned as “Judaization” by the Palestinian Authority.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Blue&White Party leader Benny Gantz must abandon plans to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and reject the idea of a “Jewish majority” government, says Joint List's Ayman Odeh.
The elections will have a significant role in how the Deal of the Century gets implemented.
“If we agree to the “Deal of the Century” map, the Gaza model will be reproduced right in the heart of the Land of Israel."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Jewish construction will be frozen in areas outside the map lines.
The congressmen began their tour on the “Heritage Trail” in Beersheva, where they learned about the biblical Abraham and the ties of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.
Dozens of Arab rioters threw stones and bottles at the Israeli forces as they were leaving the site.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was joined at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who called Abbas a “man of peace” and the “only partner” Israel has in peace negotiations.
Behind the initiative stands Ghani Rabe’i, who previously initiated complaints in US Federal Court against 200 businessmen who invested in Israeli economic ventures in Judea and Samaria.
The proposed PA resolution still attacks Israel and the US at the UN, but is less likely to trigger an automatic US veto.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Last week, settlement leaders said Prime Minister Netanyahu told them there are some technical differences within the US administration.
The Palestinian Authority chairman wants to see wide-scale acts of violence against Israelis.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is “especially concerned” by Israel’s statements on the prospect of the annexation of the Jordan Valley and other parts of Judea and Samaria ad stressed that it does not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over “the territories occupied since 1967.”
Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah officials believe they are marching toward the end of the Mahmoud Abbas era and the strategic failure of his “political intifada” against Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Gantz apparently does not have the legal ability to move forward with pushing the Deal of the Century through the Knesset and must wait for Netanyahu’s government to vote on it.
The PA is hoping Israel's leftwing parties will kill the Deal of the Century after the elections.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Maimonides rules that a Jew is obligated to offer the Passover sacrifice even when the Temple has not yet been built.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“There were attempts by Trump to hold a phone call with Abbas, but the latter refused,” a source told the Anadolu news agency.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Greenblatt has clashed with the PA’s leadership on several occasions and has accused them of choosing terrorism over peace, at the expense of their own people.
Two major party leaders don’t “come to Washington just for a conversation,” which poses questions as to why an initiative would be released a month before the third round of Israeli elections, says Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast negotiator.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened the conference by announcing that the United States is “disavowing” the 1978 Hansell Memorandum, a State Department memo that claimed Israeli settlements violate international law.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We’re disavowing the deeply flawed 1978 Hansell memo, and we’re returning to a balanced and sober Reagan-era approach.”
Jordanian Members of Parliament (MP) are pushing for an urgent legislative initiative to repeal the agreement in which Israel will supply gas to the Hashemite Kingdom, ahead of the soon-to-be-launched natural gas pipeline between the two countries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The final tally was 226 in favor, 188 against, and two present—with most Democrats voting for it, and most Republicans voting against it.
The new promises of new construction for the Jews of Hebron offered by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett.
The PA suspects this is evidence of an American-Israeli plan to support an independent Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.
In 2018, Coveney stated that the Republic of Ireland would recognize Palestine as a state if peace negotiations did not progress.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Having seen the experience of the evacuation of Gaza, I don’t believe that there is a realistic plan that can be implemented that would require anyone—Jew or Arab—to be forced to leave their home,” said U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
Bennett claims the Deal of the Century will create islands of Israel within an ocean of Palestine.
Berkowitz, 30, is an Orthodox Jew who assisted White House adviser Jared Kushner in his years in the private sector, then during US President Donald Trump’s election campaign, and later in the White House he served as a “special assistant.”
Most of the assumptions proposed by Israel’s military and political establishment ahead of land withdrawals have proven false, while the social impact of such evacuations have left deep scars.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“From the moment of its formation, they were attacked multiple times. They continue to be attacked with terrorism . . . they’re trying their best to succeed … under very, very trying circumstances.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jason Greenblatt said that the hesitation from the Israeli side surprised him because the US administration repeatedly assured Israel that Israel's "security is first and foremost” in the proposal.
“We have to deal with everybody to make this work,” said U.S. special envoy for Mideast peace negotiations Jason Greenblatt. “We cannot make a comprehensive peace unless we make sure that we are dealing with the representatives of all the Palestinian people.”
"How can we talk with anyone who thinks God gave Jerusalem to the Jews?" Saeb Erekat asked cynically.
The last time that Israelis have been allowed to visit Manama, Bahrain’s capital, en masse was in the halcyon days following the signing of the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn in 1993.
The rage was about the mere recognition of Israel as an entity.
Hebron businessman Ashraf Jabari, who is leading the PA delegation, will speak at the conference.
“This is a very detailed peace vision. You cannot have a successful peace agreement without a successful economic plan. We are worried about the days, weeks, months and years after,” said U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt.
Fatah, in a public notice issued on Saturday, called for the protests to commence on the day prior to the first day of the summit and continue throughout the conference.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Bahrain workshop is the first part of the peace proposal rollout.
The summit is to serve as a major step towards the unveiling of President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” peace plan.
A PATV children's program recently taught, "All of Palestine will return to us," while pointing to a map of "Palestine" that includes all of Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Congressman Barr stated that if Trump proposes the evacuation of Jews in Judea and Samaria as part of the diplomatic plan, he will oppose it.
By Israel Hayom
“Sorry @FoxNews & @TreyYingst your sources gave you bad info,” tweeted U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt. “While the plan is close to complete, we aren’t there yet & we’ll continue to refine it until release.”
By Josh Hasten
Ayelet Shaked made her remarks, based on sources she says she has within the Trump administration, at a Gush Etzion parlor meeting for her party last week in front of more than 100 Israeli voters.
“Any American citizen in the world, America stands by that person and will do whatever is necessary to protect that individual."
"Neither side is going to like everything written in the peace plan, and there will be a need to compromise."
By JNi.Media
Shaked is a ball of contradictions, which gives her power and makes her uniquely pan-Israeli.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Several hours after raising eyebrows with a statement revealing his preference for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S. President Donald Trump expounded on his opinion, stating that while he prefers a two-state solution, any solution would be acceptable as long as it brings peace to the region.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I like the two-state solution,” Trump said to reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “That’s what I think works best. I don’t even have to speak to anybody; that’s my feeling.” - Oy
By JNi.Media
The Trump administration on Monday announced it is closing the PLO office in Washington, DC, cutting off the Palestinian Authority's ability to maintain its diplomatic mission to the US.
By JNi.Media
It turns out President Obama's decision to betray Israel at the UN Security Council was in response to President Elect Donald Trump's announcement of appointing David Friedman his ambassador to Israel.
By JNi.Media
In June, Ramah national director Rabbi Mitchell Cohen circulated an email vowing: “Ramah camps have not engaged—and will not engage—in any way with IfNotNow as an organization.”
By Steve
Abu Mazen is working to create bloody riots in Gaza, so that Israel can hit Hamas – Abbas's enemies, and then Abbas can travel around the world and denounce Israel.
By JNi.Media
Fooled us once, shame on us. There won't be a second fooling.
By JNi.Media
Levy repeats the mantra that only the complete return of Judea and Samaria to the Arabs would guarantee the desired, long-lasting peace.
By JNi.Media
The Palestinian Central Council decided on the suspension of recognition of the State of Israel until it recognizes the State of Palestine.
By JNi.Media
Why haven't the PLO and Hamas permitted these three million or so people to turn their tent and shack cities into actual cities? Because if they do, it would mean they have given up the hope of returning to Israel.
By JNi.Media
During the hearing, the squatters' attorneys made it clear that their clients were not willing to move too far from the current location of their shantytown, at most "a hundred or two hundred meters."
Most Israelis want the leadership to let the IDF win.
By Josh Hasten
Proposals for new paradigms, including calls for Israel to extend sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, are gaining traction.
By JNi.Media
"Only after that, we will make a decision on our embassy move," Bogdanov said.
By JNi.Media
They are seriously concerned over in Ramallah about President Trump's apparent plan to go over their heads to the people and give them what they need: prosperity.
By JNi.Media
The Palestinian Authority has been boycotting the Trump administration since December 2017, which is why Kushner and Greenblatt will likely skip Ramallah this time.
By JNi.Media
"I hope the citizens of South Korea will gain the quiet they have been seeking for years.”
Labor party Chairman Avi Gabbay wants to stick with Labor's failed formula.
A senior US government official said the report on the peace plan is fake news.
By JNi.Media
It is disheartening that recommendations for the preservation of Israel's "Zionist vision of a Jewish, democratic, secure, and ethical state" while ignoring Hamas' Hitlerist designs on the Jewish State's very existence.
By JNi.Media
Four hundred participants packed the event to support Judea and Samaria in face of delegitimization and boycotts, organized by YESHA Council.
By JNi.Media
“It's hard for me to see how they would want” a single state, which is why both sides "are pushing toward a two-state” solution.
Before this article went to press, Congressmen Tipton and McKinley were detained by Israeli police for daring to pick up an olive branch which they found lying on the ground while touring on the Temple Mount. See our story about what happened. On their trip to Israel this week, two U.S. Congressman are focusing on […]
By JNi.Media
Saeb Erekat: “Jerusalem is not off the negotiations table; rather the US is outside the international consensus."
By JNi.Media
According to the report, Kerry used derogatory terms when referring to the president, and hinted he was seriously considering running in 2020.
By JNi.Media
Two scenarios – even more violent Arabs in the territories and a PLO that's shopping around world capitals for an independent state – represent the essence of media criticism of President Trump's threat to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority.
By Duvi Honig
We are honored to have been actively involved in this effort and to work closely with the leading advocates for this move, particularly our dear friends Ambassador David Friedman and Congressman Ron DeSantis.
By JNi.Media
“We note that we cannot imagine Israel would sign a peace agreement that didn’t include the Western Wall.”
By JNi.Media
"Erdogan should not preach to us; he bombs Kurdish villages in Turkey, imprisons journalists, helps Iran evade international sanctions and helps terrorists attack innocents in Gaza and other places."
Will Jordan also reconsider all the free water Israel sends them too?
By JNi.Media
A new, spacious highway connecting Jerusalem and the Israeli city smack at the center of the "west bank" will spell the end of the PA's hopes for a contiguous Palestinian State.
By JNi.Media
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Friday that the PA had violated a provision in a US law which says the PLO mission in DC would be closed down should the PA approach the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis for crimes against PA Arabs.
Congressmen and MKs: Territorial concessions have not brought peace and Israel should be encouraged to use all diplomatic, economic and military tools to end the conflict
By Shiryn Solny
Ambassador Friedman said that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were asked for his three top foreign policy objectives, “he will tell you it is Iran, Iran and Iran.”
Taking this story with a grain of salt.
By JNi.Media
According to Ha'aretz, Camp Ramah has incorporated the curriculum of a group called IfNotNow to teach Jewish Children about the evils of Israeli occupation. So we made a phone call.
By JNi.Media
'Never has there been a national independence movement that has refused an independence offer on the grounds that it does not include all the territory the movement seeks.'
By JNi.Media
In recent days, the Regavim movement discovered heavy machinery belonging to the PA paving a highway along the old Turkish railway tracks, as well as constructing new buildings near the old Turkish railroad station.
By JNi.Media
Hamas responded that "Greenblatt's statement and the demand for a Palestinian unity government to recognize Israel and renounce violence came under pressure from the right-wing government in Israel."
"The General Union of Palestinian Expressionist Artists has demanded that all artists not participate in the festival as it is a normalization festival that serves the Israeli agendas."
By JNi.Media
Sooner or later, this shiny package of a reconciliation is bound to fall apart, since it makes no sense.
By JNi.Media
"Ayman Odeh is a terrorist in a suit. What he has managed to conceal for two years of smiling – he revealed in one phone call with Haniyeh."
By JNi.Media
A source in Ramallah noted that Abbas' internal political rivals, headed by Muhammad Dahlan, are much more likely to find themselves under an Interpol extradition order than Israeli officials.
By JNi.Media
The level of satisfaction with the performance of Abbas stands at 31% and dissatisfaction at 65%.
By JNi.Media
The Russian top diplomat reminded his audience of the PLO's failure to embrace Israeli generous offers in Camp David and Annapolis in the US.
By JNi.Media
The Israeli plan, formulated under American pressure, is to help the Trump administration put pressure on Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to moderate his speech at the UN General Assembly.
By JNi.Media
'As opposed to similar calls in other years, no one from the Jewish community introduced or thanked him, and the president took no questions. The call lasted for about 5 minutes.'
By JNi.Media
Referring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Smotrich said: 'Never will there be an Arab state between the sea and the Jordan.'