‘This day will be added to the Palestinian calendar of pain and Arab calendar of defeats,’ said Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.
‘A simple fact was proven anew: Strength attracts and weakness repels. In the Middle East, the strong survive and with strength, one makes peace,” Netanyahu said.
With the JTA report implying that AIPAC was giving a ‘greenlight’ to members of Congress to criticize Israel, the lobby group emphatically denied that was the case.
The official description of Palestinians residing in eastern Jerusalem is now ‘Arab residents’ or ‘non-Israeli citizens,’ instead of ‘Palestinian residents.’
After continually walking away from the negotiating table and resorting to violence, the Palestinians have come to the point where their bad behavior will not be rewarded.
The announcement, made days before the White House reveals its Mideast peace plan, is the latest sign of warming relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Sources in Washington said there’s no contradiction between Netanyahu’s plan and Trump’s peace plan. It is impossible to overstate the significance of this fact.
‘I am incredibly grateful to have been part of a team that drafted a vision for peace,’ said U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt upon his resignation.
Ahead of the Bahrain summit, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt clarified that the Trump administration does not intend to impose a plan.
Until the Palestinians change their culture of hate, ‘talk of land for peace is a recipe for more tragedy,’ says Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch.
The Palestinians on Monday called on Arab nations to boycott or downgrade their representation at a Mideast summit co-hosted by the United States, as President Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Saudi Arabia discuss ‘the dangers facing the Palestinian cause.’
The Trump administration may be withholding recognition of Israel’s capital on passports for the time being because of its much-anticipated Mideast peace plan.
Are Israel’s Arab neighbors serious about peace between Israel and the Palestinians, or are they living in a fantasy world in which the Jewish state will one day magically disappear?
On Friday President Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt got down to business with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to work on the long-awaited US peace plan.