The Associated Press reported late Tuesday on what the outlet described as a “surprise move” by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to go to a range of United Nations bodies requesting membership for the “State of Palestine.” The AP noted that the declaration came “despite a promise to suspend...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returned to Israel late Monday as reports emerged that Jerusalem had presented Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas with a draft proposal designed to extend U.S.-brokered negotiations beyond their originally scheduled April 29 deadline. “Our negotiating team has been working with both parties on the ground to help...

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On the day Israel offered yet more concessions for peace, the Palestine Liberation Organization further entrenched its position insisting any future Palestinian state be built on all the land captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. It stressed the Palestinian people “hanging on to their legitimate national rights, first...

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Two former heads of Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) spoke out Thursday at the ongoing failure of peace negotiations to bring about any sense of compromise on the part of the Palestinians. Speaking at Bar Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, former National Security Adviser Uzi Arad noted that...

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Palestinian officials on Friday threatened to suspend negotiations with Israel after Jerusalem declined to release 26 Palestinian prisoners in the coming days. The scenario, which would also see Palestinian officials resume waging diplomatic warfare against Israel in international forums, would risk permanently derailing a U.S.-backed peace initiative. The Friday statements were...

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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab League on Tuesday that he rejects “even holding a discussion” over Israel’s long-standing requirement that any comprehensive peace deal must see the Palestinians acknowledging Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, according to a transcript of his speech conveyed in a longer analysis published...

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As notorious 9/11 Truther and anti-Israel activist Richard Falk prepares to leave his post as the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the situation of the Palestinians, reports are emerging that the Falk family’s special brand of crazy will still be represented at the United Nations, as Falk’s wife, Dr. Hilal Elver, is...

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The Jerusalem Post conveyed statements on Monday from the European Union’s envoy to Israel emphasizing that what the outlet described as an “unprecedented” EU offer to Israel and the Palestinians – under which the parties would be granted Special Privileged Partnerships with the bloc should they ink a comprehensive peace deal...

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While the Arabic media is focusing on many of the key rifts between Arab states, regional leaders used this week’s Arab League Summit in Kuwait City to unite in their calls for “Jerusalem” to be the capital of a Palestinian state and for Israel to stop its assault on the...

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Recent days have been marked by an upswing in violent incidents in the West Bank, and the timing raising concerns that the Palestinian Authority (PA)  has once again chosen to couple its rejectionism at the negotiating table with a threat of violence. The incidents included a Bethlehem firebomb thrown at the...

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