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Former US Ambassador to Israel calls on Biden to rein in illegal Israeli settlements
Former US ambassador to the nation Daniel Kurtzer said on Thursday that the Joe Biden administration should warn Israel that its continuous colonization of the West Bank breaches a commitment it made with Washington in 2004.
Nine colonies in the occupied West Bank received retroactive approval from the Israeli prime minister earlier this month. Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, later announced...
Turkey Hates Jews so much, they Just Threatened to Break ties with UAE over deal with Israel
The landmark trilateral deal paving the way for a normalisation of ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates was announced by US President Donald Trump. The accord commits Israel to forego its plans to extend sovereignty over parts of the West Bank.
Turkey is looking at suspending its diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates, close the Turkish Embassy in the capital Abu Dhabi, and...
Palestine Pulls Out of Oslo II Accord After Trump's 'Deal of the Century' Announced
Palestine on Thursday canceled the 1995 Oslo Accords signed with Israel.
“Israel has been informed that the Palestinian administration will not adhere to the agreements between them,” the Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh said in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera.
Sheikh also expressed hope that Arab and Islamic countries will be a force that supports the...
Palestine cutting all ties with US and Israel over Trump's so-called 'deal of the century'
The Palestinian Authority is cutting all ties with the US and Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas announced during a furious speech at the Arab League emergency session on the so-called “deal of the century” proposed by Donald Trump.
The Arab League convened on Saturday in Egypt’s capital Cairo to discuss the plan unveiled this week by the US president, which would see Israeli annexation of much...
Trump's US State Department removes all mention of Palestinians
After Donald Trump lied during the 2016 campaign about a 2-state solution between Israel and Palestine, now the US State Department website has deleted the Palestinian Authority from the list of countries and areas on its website.
Until recently, ‘Palestinians’ appeared on the site under the name ‘Palestinian Authority’ and before that the ‘Palestinian Territories’, now nothing as if they...
Peace hopes gone after US merges Israeli embassy with Palestinian mission
Palestinian officials have denounced as hostile the US move to merge its consulate in Jerusalem, which mostly served Palestinians, with the embassy controversially inaugurated last year. The overhaul has been scheduled for Monday.
The US State Department on Sunday formally set a date for the previously announced merger of its embassy in Jerusalem with the consulate, which was operating as the de facto...
Al-Qaeda leader calls for "Total Jihad" in USA as revenge for moving the embassy to Jerusalem
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Sunday said America’s decision to shift its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem was evidence that negotiations and “appeasement” have failed Palestinians as he urged Muslims fight against the United States. In a five-minute video entitled “Tel Aviv is Also a Land of Muslims,” the Egyptian doctor who took charge of the global terror group after its founder Osama...
Palestinian Authority did receive Obama's final $221mn aid payout
The much-discussed $221 million transfer to Palestine authorized by Barack Obama just hours before Trump was sworn into the presidency has already reached West Bank and Gaza, an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has claimed.
“We have already received the last sum assigned by Obama’s administration. They have transferred this money,” Husam Zomlot, strategic affairs advisor...
Obama gives $221 million in Aid to Palestine before leaving office
Traitorous former President Barack Obama took one last opportunity to disrespect and betray the nation of Israel and the American people before he left office.
According to a report by the Associated Press President Obama sent the Palestinian state $221,000,000 in his final hours of being commander-in-chief.
From The AP:
Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican...
Something Awful Just Happened to Christians In Bethlehem
By now we’re used to hearing from Democrats and Liberals that the Christian religion is one built on intolerance and bigotry.
That’s the argument they use every time Christians oppose a law or policy that goes against God’s laws.
The truth is Christians might be strong in their opposition against things “Un-Christian,” but they’re not violent or criminal in their actions.
There is however...
Palestinian UN draft against Israel act of war
The Israeli intelligence minister describes as an “act of war” a Palestinian draft submitted to the UN Security Council to end Israeli occupation by the end of 2017.
“The Palestinians made sure to remove any mention of Israel’s status as a Jewish state from the draft, which means this is not an act of peace, it’s an act of war,” Israel Radio quoted Yuval Steinitz as saying on Thursday.
The...
Israel wiretapped Kerry's calls during peace talks
Israeli agents were eavesdropping on US Secretary of State John Kerry as he was mediating last year’s futile Middle East peace talks, German magazine Der Spiegel has revealed.
Kerry made reviving diplomatic ties between Israel and the Palestinian Authority after a three-year freeze a central priority in the early months of his term as secretary of state. In June 2013, direct talks started, only...
US set to free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard
The United States is set to free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to save the so-called peace talks between Palestinian Authority (PA) and Tel Aviv, reports in the Israeli news media say.
With the talks on the brink of collapse, US officials have offered to release Pollard, 59, as a carrot to Israel to break the deadlock over a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli...
Israel minister proposes partial West Bank annexation
Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has proposed the annexation of parts of the Palestinian land of the West Bank under Israel’s full military control.
Bennett, who heads the far-right Jewish Home religious party, said on Sunday that he favors “implementation of Israeli sovereignty over the zone where 400,000 (settlers) live and only 70,000 Arabs.”
The hawkish Israeli minister also...
West Bank protesters rally for release of deteriorating prisoners
An Israeli soldier chases a Palestinian protester in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on February 19, 2013.
Israeli troops have clashed with Palestinians who were holding demonstrations in the occupied West Bank in solidarity with four hunger strikers in Israeli jails.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces fired tear gas and sound bombs in the northern town of Huwara to disperse hundreds of Palestinian people...