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U.S. Peace Plan for Middle East Ready…

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The White House-prepared peace plan to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflicts was ready, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters here at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday. “I have read the plan. It is thoroughly done,” Haley said at a briefing in her role as this month’s president of the Security Council, adding that Jared Kushner and Jason […]

Israel Approves More Than 1,000 Settlement Homes in West Bank…

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Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved plans for more than 1,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the Peace Now NGO said, the latest in a raft of approvals since US President Donald Trump took office. The plans for 1,004 homes approved by a defence ministry committee are at various stages in the process. They […]

Israel Sentences Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour to Jail for Facebook ‘Incitement’…

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Israel sentenced Palestinian writer and poet Dareen Tatour to five months in prison on Tuesday after convicting her of “inciting violence” over a poem she posted on social media that prosecutors claimed urged violence against the occupation. Nazareth magistrates’ court in May found Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, guilty over the poem “Resist, My […]

Saudi, UAE, Egypt, Jordan Back Trump’s Israel-Palestine Plan…

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Four Arab countries are backing Donald Trump’s plan for a settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, according to an Israeli newspaper, and are willing to sideline the PA’s President Mahmoud Abbas to see it done. According to a report in Israel Hayom, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan told Jared Kushner, […]

U.S. Freezes Palestinian Aid Budget…

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The United States has quietly frozen its aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) pending review, i24NEWS has learned. The move comes two months after Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, which aimed to force the PA to terminate its “pay-for-slay” policies of paying stipends to convicted terrorists in Israeli jails and to the families of […]

Israel Approves More Than 2,000 New West Bank Settlements…

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Israel has approved more than 2,000 new settlement units in the West Bank, a move Palestinian authorities say was encouraged by the United States. Israel’s Civil Administration said at least 696 of the new units were approved and 1,262 were advanced through an earlier planning stage known as a “deposit.” More than half of the […]

Abbas’ Government Sued over Alleged CIA-Backed Wiretapping…

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A former Palestinian intelligence chief and the head of the West Bank bar association are suing the Palestinian self-rule government after a purported whistleblower alleged the two were targeted, along with many other allies and rivals of President Mahmoud Abbas, in a large-scale CIA-backed wiretapping operation. Allegations of continued intelligence-sharing with the United States could […]

Ruh Roh – Kerry to Abbas Confidante: ‘Stay strong and do not give into Trump’…

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While the White House has confirmed that since the Jerusalem Declaration there has been a complete disconnect between the Palestinian Authority and the Trump administration, it turns out that the previous administration has maintained contact with PA officials. Maariv reported that former US secretary of state John Kerry met in London with a close associate […]

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