Netanyahu setback and remarks by Kushner and Pompeo dim hopes for U.S. Mideast peace plan
Already low hopes for a U.S. peace plan in the Middle East dimmed further Monday as President Donald Trump acknowledged widespread doubts and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, suggested Palestinians weren't ready to govern themselves. The Trump administration, which has staunchly supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the Palestinians deserve "self-determination," but stopped short of backing Palestinian statehood and expressed uncertainty over their ability to govern themselves. Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and an architect of the White House's ...
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to push the Trump administration's long-awaited plan for Mideast peace, just as Israel was thrust into the political tumult of an unprecedented second election in the ...
Trump team faces tough audiences as it pitches Mideast peace plan
President Donald Trump's top Mideast advisers face skeptical audiences as they visit several locations in the region and in Europe starting Tuesday to rally support for what they have billed as a workshop on the economic foundations of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The ...
Palestinians to snub U.S.-led economic confab seen as prelude to Trump peace plan
Palestinians will stay away from a U.S.-led conference in Bahrain next month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its own plan for peace between them and Israel, a Palestinian cabinet minister said on Monday. Washington announced the conference on Sunday, describing ...
Israel's Gaza blockade under scrutiny after latest violence shows Hamas still potent force
For 12 years, Israel has maintained a blockade over the Gaza Strip, seeking to weaken the territory's militant Hamas rulers. And for 12 years, Hamas has remained firmly in power, developing a thriving homegrown weapons industry along the way. This weekend's violence, the worst in ...
Gaza Sunday death toll rises to 12 in Israeli strikes: ministry
The toll of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip rose to 12 on Sunday, the enclave's health ministry said, as Israel carried out a series of strikes in response to dozens of rockets fired from the Hamas-run territory. The ministry said three people, including a ...
Deaths on both sides as militants fire hundreds of rockets into Israel, drawing strikes on Gaza
Gaza militants fired fresh rocket barrages at Israel early Sunday in a deadly escalation that has seen Israel respond with waves of strikes as a fragile truce again faltered and a further escalation was feared. Gazan authorities reported four Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in ...
Israelis are being given choice between war and more war, between occupation and more occupation, even if the candidates avoid using those terms.
Netanyahu plays pre-election Trump card, vowing to annex settlements
Palestinians voiced alarm while Israelis weighed the gravity on Sunday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sudden election promise to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Some Israeli commentators saw the right-wing leader's pledge on Saturday, as Tuesday's national ballot approaches, as mainly a ...
Four killed as thousands protest at Gaza-Israel border, but truce holds
Five rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel, prompting Israeli tanks to respond by firing on Hamas military posts early Sunday, hours after a massive Palestinian protest along the border between Israel and Gaza. The rocket attack and Israeli response did not cause ...
Trump tweets U.S. recognizes Israel sovereignty of Golan Heights
President Donald Trump abruptly declared Thursday the U.S. will recognize Israel's sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a major shift in American policy that gives Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a political boost a month before what is expected to be a close election. The ...
