The status of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks remained unclear through much of Thursday, amid the publication of conflicting reports describing not just ongoing meetings but also regarding proposals to extend negotiations beyond the original April 29 deadline of a U.S.-backed peace push. Substantive final status negotiations have been offline since last...

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Yesterday’s effort by Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine to pass a divestment resolution was defeated by a vote of 15-8-1 at a meeting of the Cornell Student Assembly . The resolution was an item of “new business” for the assembly and had it not been defeated, would have scheduled...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday instructed high-level government officials to limit cooperation with Palestinian counterparts to security concerns and peace negotiations, a move that an Israeli government official told Reuters was in response to “the Palestinians’ grave violation of their commitments in the framework of the peace talks”: Israeli government...

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Israel’s agriculture ministry has reached an agreement to relocate the majority of families in the Bedouin Azzama tribe from their current residences to a recognized settlement near Be’er Sheva. The Jerusalem Post provided some details of the agreement: According to the agreement, the tribe of Azzama, made up of 900...

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The former head of Israel’s navy told a conference yesterday that Iran was the leading arms smuggler to the Middle East, and that Israel was engaged in an “ongoing secret war between Israel and terrorist organizations and the evil axis led by Iran,” to fight that threat. Vice Admiral Eliezer...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday revealed that extensive efforts to extend Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were in progress when Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced – in what the Associated Press described as a “hastily convened” press conference – that he would be turning to the United Nations and seeking to ascend...

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Coming after terrorists launched rockets into Israel late last week and Israel retaliated, Monday, IDF soldiers prevented an attack at Israel’s border with Gaza. The Times of Israel reported: The soldiers spotted two suspects carrying a suspicious object near the fence, and chased them away by firing warning shots, according to...

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On Friday, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat declared that Hamas, the Islamist organization that rules Gaza, is not a terrorist organization. Speaking at a conference held at the Masarat think tank in Ramallah, an institution dedicated to Palestinian reconciliation, Erekat said, “Hamas is a Palestinian movement, is not and will...

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Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, a 33-year-old Arab-Israeli mother of three with a PhD in microbiology, won the fourth season of the Israeli version of the TV cooking competition “MasterChef” on Sunday. Atamna-Ismaeel dreams of opening an Arab-Jewish cooking school, one that she will surely now be able to build. The winning dish,...

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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday rejected a request from Secretary of State John Kerry to reverse his position – announced earlier this week at what the Associated Press described as a “hastily convened” press conference – to turn to the United Nations and join 15 international treaties as the “State of Palestine”:...

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