A strategic shift reflects Jerusalem's desire to bolster President Joseph Aoun's position against armed groups in coordination with the U.S.
85% of the Jewish public in Israel thinks that “there is no chance of a peace agreement with the Palestinians in the foreseeable future.”
“This is a package deal,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said of the components of a Saudi-Israeli agreement. “None go forward without the others.”
“Do you support or oppose the notion that as part of a deal to end the war—which will include long-term military quiet, guarantees from the United States, and an agreement with Arab states such as Saudi Arabia—Israel should agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state?”
By Ariel Kahana
The plan also envisions normalization between Israel and the Arab world, the release of captives and a new regime in Gaza.
The Saudi want peace with Israel and a defense treaty with the US, that's all they care about.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If the Saudis can “calm the Yemeni situation down, I think that’s great,” the U.S. envoy to Jerusalem said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It’s in Riyadh’s interest to forge an agreement while Biden is in office, U.S. officials said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The core of the problem is political, as long as the peace process is not addressed, you cannot just count on economic normalization,” said Qatar's foreign minister.
By Israel Hayom
“We tell the Americans that you have failed in the battlefield of pressure against the Iranian nation,” says Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami.
By Israel Hayom
An Israeli official tells a London-based Arabic news outlet that the Saudis have cut off all behind-the-scenes coordination with Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Relations between the US and Israel, and between Israel and the Middle East are completely different after David Friedman took office.
By Ariel Kahana
Senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner and U.S. special envoy Avi Berkowitz talk Abraham Accords, Israeli-Palestinian peace and Iran in a special interview from Morocco.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A joint U.S.-Israel delegation led by senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner and Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat will be aboard.
By Israel Hayom
A senior adviser to the leader of a large Muslim-majority country with no diplomatic ties to Israel heads a delegation that meets with Israeli counterparts in Tel Aviv.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said “instead of a cold détente attained via surrender to unreasonable demands, these new agreements promote peace based upon common security needs and mutual medical, technological and financial benefits.”
By Israel Hayom
Sudan has made it clear that without legislation that would grant it immunity from legal action over its terrorist past, ties will not be upgraded.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“How can Saudi Arabia educate Saudi youth of the mutual benefits of promoting relations with Israel if Israel is not even shown on the Saudi maps?” asked ZOA national president Mort Klein.
Netanyahu told the Joint Arab List they would soon have the opportunity to fix the mistake they made with the UAE treaty.
Michel Aoun is an ally of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and therefore this statement is receiving a lot of attention inside and outside of Lebanon.
An Israeli delegation will meet in Sudan with a Sudanese team in the coming weeks to discuss cooperation in many fields including migration and the possible return of tens of thousands of illegal Sundanese migrants in Israel to their country.
The Joint Arab list was also against peace with the UAE.
UAE, Bahrain, Sudan... Joint Arab List?
Israel has made peace with Sudan.
The full transcript and video of the discussion between Trump, PM Netanyahu and Hamdok on the Israel-Sudan peace deal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I am glad that so many Senate Democrats have now echoed that sentiment,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
The MSC Paris made history last week when it became the first ship from the UAE to dock at Haifa’s port.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Arab's leadership in Israel is opposed to real peace.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
After learning that the price quote was for a Jewish synagogue, the Arab contractor decided to donate the materials and work for free.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Haifa Port Chairman of the Board Eshel Armoni: “This is very exciting. This is a new era in the Middle East."
The population of Bahrain is 60 percent Shiite while the royal house is Sunni.
A review of the "experts" weighing in on Trump's decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, especially John Kerry.
A joint statement by the US and Qatar on Friday on the strategic dialogue raised tensions in the Palestinian Authority and there is a growing understating that Qatar is becoming an important link in the implementation of American policy.
By Avi Abelow
Did Israel really pay a price regarding F-35s, Sovereignty, or a Palestinian State?
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The historic event will take place at the White House on Tuesday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S secretary of state will also visit the UAE and Bahrain on his current trip, according to the State Department.
Member of Knesset (MK) Heba Yazbak launched an initiative to promote BDS against Israel, while she sits in the Israeli Knesset.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The invitation was written in Arabic.
The UAE censored Israeli websites and blocked phone calls to and from Israel.
The peace-game has changed.
Research shows that the word “peace” does not appear in any text used in PA schools.
Do you know how many Jews and Arabs there are in the Middle East?
One Arab who says he wants peace, but can he succeed?
Peace? But there's no peace.
Trying to figure out the peace process.
Ari talks to a warrior from Ramallah that will blow your mind. She is the real face of peace and wait till you hear who she voted for in the US elections.
Hazem Farraj is an ex-Muslim from East Jerusalem who is now teaching people the truth about Islam and Jihad. Gadi sits down for a candid conversation with this interesting young man.
How does this antisemitic, terror murder affect Israel and all of us on a personal level?
Is he optimistic or just naive?
The Palestinian school curricula, summer camps, and sermons in the mosques.
When you are kind to the cruel, you become cruel to the kind.
State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert slaughtered some sacred cows on Wednesday.
A new and different approach to solving the Mid-East conflict?
Israel is being taken apart 'Piece by Peace'.
Which comes first, peace or security?
An Israel peace-nik who wants settlements?
The cabinet passed a series of concessions to appease Trump, including converting land in Area C to Area A.
Israel acts “in accordance with our interests, not according to whether or not we have a green light from the international community.”
By JNi.Media
Peace Now reports remind us of the joke about the Jewish guy reading Der Stürmer in 1936 Berlin.
Trump wants to make a peace deal...
Are Israelis more realistic today regarding peace with the Arabs?
The delusion called "The Two State Solution".
By JNi.Media
King Abdullah told Trump's envoy that he would 'do everything possible" to help end the Israel-PA conflict – on the basis of a two-state solution.'
Professor Kontorovich discusses whether Israeli control of the "West Bank and East Jerusalem" is an illegal occupation.
By Yael Cohen
In an exclusive interview with the Jewish Press, Minister Ayoob Kara noted peace talks will begin within a couple of month. As a result, Iran is seeking to reignite the Palestinian Intifada in order to sabotage peace efforts.
Selective leaks by former Obama officials which were meant to make Netanyahu look bad don’t hold up to scrutiny.
By JNi.Media
The Messiah can't be too far away, if Yishai Fleisher was invited by the Gray Lady to explain how Israel can remain Jewish and democratic without the two-state solution.
What do we do when our emotions start to control us?
Why war is the only sensible and realistic road to real peace.
By JNi.Media
And not one word, once again, from the White House Spokesman, about any 'two-state solution,' thank you very much.
By JNi.Media
Supreme Court President Justice Miriam Na'or makes sure the cases that deal with settlements would usually receive panels with an anti-settlement majority.
Longtime State Dept. official Dennis Ross has a "NEW" plan for peace: Israel stops building “in 92% of the West Bank” in exchange for US help in opposing Palestinian efforts to delegitimize Israel
Another Mid-East peace process is on the way.
By Fred Maroun
I am an Arab, lucky enough to be one of the few Arabs who live far enough, both physically and intellectually, from Arab thugs to be able to speak my mind. So I will speak my mind.
By JNi.Media
Isaac Herzog said that 'recently there has been a certain attempt to dim Peres' peace doctrine; his faith in the two-state vision and [his efforts to achieve] a comprehensive peace with our Palestinian neighbors.'
Why Does Europe Hate Israel? The reasons are numerous, ranging from currying financial or political favor in the UN with the Arab nations or a resentment of Israel stubbornly clinging to life.
Before Jacob, animal sacrifices were completely consumed by fire. When he learned Yosef was alive, he offered a different type of sacrifice, the Shelamim, which is partially burnt and partially eaten
By Barry Shaw
Obama’s dereliction of international and humanitarian responsibilities by failing to implement his infamous “red lines” in Syria led to the Syrian genocide and made a mockery of his Nobel Peace Prize
The purported “peace process” is nothing more than war, simply being fought with different methods. The result is success for the enemy and our loss of land, legitimacy and internal demoralization.
By JNi.Media
A whopping 80.5% of the Jewish public agree with the recent statement by Ambassador Ron Dermer that “Israel has no doubt that President-elect Trump is a true friend of Israel.”
The “anti-normalization” campaign–a euphemism for refusing to talk to Israelis and intimidating others into doing the same–has produced boycotts of Israeli cultural figures, businessmen, NGOs and more
By JNi.Media
'Netanyahu's incitement intifada is raging across the country,' Goldblum posted. 'It's difficult not to see the connection between Netanyahu's incitements following the arsons and the submarines scandal.'
Before anyone concludes only "right-wingers" oppose the Paris conference, it's worth recalling that one of the most outspoken critics of the conference idea was the hero of the "Left," Yitzhak Rabin.
By JNi.Media
Somebody should tell Ivanka Trump and Jason Greenblatt as soon as Shabbat is out.
By JNi.Media
Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said, with noted condescension, "If the Israeli right knows what Trump position regarding Israel is, I believe they know more than Trump does."
Pres. Obama should resist any temptation, during his final weeks in office, to change longstanding American policy: that only direct negotiations between the parties will achieve a lasting peace.
By JNi.Media
The two-state solution does not stand a chance unless the leaders of both sides "are willing and able to make decisions" — and it’s highly unlikely that whomever is chosen to succeed Abbas would be able to make them.
When UNESCO affirmed the resolution labeling the Temple Mount a Muslim shrine, our Jordanian "pals" hailed the vote as a “victory” and unashamedly claimed credit for drafting the offensive decision.
"Where were B’tselem, Human Rights Watch and the rest of the groups that are normally so concerned with Palestinian rights?”
By JNi.Media
The celebration attracted more than a hundred guests, and was an opportunity for Arab dignitaries from nearby Bethlehem and Hebron to mingle with senior IDF and Israel Police officials
Benjamin Netanyahu: "No matter how often lies about Israel are repeated, this doesn't make them true."
By JNi.Media
The meeting was called by member states Egypt, Venezuela, Malaysia, Senegal and Angola, and was pushed by the PA delegation.
You can't have peace without truth.
By Batya Medad
Believing that "The Peace," "השלום" "HaShalom" of Shimon Peres is a TRUE Peace is like believing that it is possible to cure a serious illness with the power of one's mind, positive thinking.
By JNi.Media
Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres, who took part in establishing Israel's security apparatus and served 48 consecutive years as MK passed away following a stroke.
By Abed AlMaala
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace must take a stance, and clearly and utterly distancing itself from their VP’s statements against Israel, made in support of BDS.
Even some of Israel's most stalwart opponents are starting to change course, with some discouraging the BDS, movement, others even engaging in joint military exercises with the Jewish state