Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed his commitment to a peaceful two-state solution with the Palestinians, in his first post-election interview, with Andrea Mitchell of NBC. Netanyahu also expressed his pride leading people of all different ethnicities, downplayed his differences with President Barack Obama, and reiterated his concerns about a nuclear...

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The decision by Israeli voters to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party to power is because progress in the peace process depends on the Palestinians, and currently “the Palestinian side doesn’t have a credible partner with which Israel could make a lasting peace,” Noah Feldman argued today in a column for...

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The Palestinian Authority responded to the electoral victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday by threatening to continue diplomatic warfare against Israel. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports: “It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, and for that, we say clearly that we will go...

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The PLO central council voted on Thursday to suspect security cooperation with Israel. The Times of Israel reports: The PLO council decided “to stop security cooperation in all its forms with the occupying power” which it urged to “take over full responsibility for the Palestinian people in the occupied State...

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Palestinian activists, including officials of the Fatah party, have given store owners 48 hours to remove Israeli products from their shelves in an effort to enforce a boycott imposed on Israeli products by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas two weeks ago, Ynet reported yesterday. The group moved in and out...

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The jury in a Federal District Court in New York found the Palestinian Authority (PA) and PLO liable under an American terrorism law for six terror attacks against Israeli targets in which Americans were wounded and killed and awarded the victims $218.5 million, The New York Times reported today. The...

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Fatah, the political party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, posted images on its Facebook page promoting rocket fire against Israel, The Times of Israel reported yesterday: One image showed a Fatah fighter holding a rocket while others fired guns, and another displayed a man firing an automatic rifle...

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While Israel has facilitated reconstruction efforts in Gaza, political infighting between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas has prevented supplies from reaching the people who need them, according to a report written by Neri Zilber and published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy today. Zilber writes: According to the...

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The European Union (EU) is funding illegal Palestinian construction in Area C, a territory that is under full Israeli jurisdiction according to the Oslo Accords, The Daily Mail reported Thursday. The EU is acting illegally by funding unauthorised Palestinian building in areas placed under Israeli control by international law, say an...

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The Palestinian bid to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) is damaging to the peace process and must be stopped, four expert witnesses told the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday. The four witness were Jonathan Schanzer, Vice-President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Eugene Kontorovich, professor at...

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