Kicking off the Trump administration’s international peace conference in Bahrain Tuesday, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner said his plan for the Middle East was “the opportunity of the century” for the Palestinians but their acceptance was a precondition to peace. “Agreeing on an economic pathway forward is a necessary precondition […]
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Peace to Prosperity: The Economic Plan – A New Vision for the Palestinian People (PDF)…
How Israel Already Controls More Than Half of the West Bank…
Netanyahu To Trump: ‘We have no desire to govern the Palestinians [and] every desire to control [security]’…
Less than one-fourth of his meeting with US President Donald Trump on Monday was devoted to the Palestinian issue, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters hours later in a briefing. “The issue of the Palestinians came up in the terms I described — the security question,” Netanyahu said. “Not more than quarter of the time […]
Meeting Trump, Abbas Looks to Calm Jitters Over U.S. Wildcards…
Four months after entering the White House, US President Donald Trump will today meet for the first time with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Despite the impression created by senior Palestinian figures, there are no great expectations at this stage among Abbas’s associates, and there is also a good deal of fear of all the […]
Jordan and Egypt Key to Abbas’ Washington Visit…
U.N. Chief Rejects Netanyahu’s Claim of ‘ethnic cleansing’ by Palestinians
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed disapproval with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that Palestinians want the “ethnic cleansing” of Jews in the West Bank…