Posts Tagged: israel palestine relations
Kerry: Current Israel, Palestinian Relations Are ‘Unsustainable’
Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that current relations between Israel and Palestine were "unsustainable" and that the United States was...
Pro-Israel Activists Attacked With Wooden Sticks in Los Angeles
JNS.org - Pro-Palestinian activists wielding wooden sticks attacked participants at a pro-Israel solidarity rally in Los Angeles on Sunday. The rally, which was attended by...
J-Street’s Ben-Ami Explicitly Equates Murdered Teens With Combatants
We mentioned the implicit moral equivalence by Jodi Rudoren in The New York Times between the (then) kidnapping of Naftali Frankel, a boy who was simply...
Israel’s Foreign Minister Lieberman Tells Kerry Regional Peace Deal is Needed
Ynet - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris, and spoke about regional developments and Israel's relations...
Peres and Abbas Join Pope Francis for Vatican ‘Prayer Summit’
JNS.org - Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas joined Pope Francis to pray for peace in Vatican City on Sunday. "Peacemaking calls...
Netanyahu Considers Annexation of West Bank Areas if Peace Process Fails
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would be open to entertaining ideas of unilateral annexation of certain areas of the West Bank if...
PA Art Exhibit to Depict Palestinians as Suffering Jesus During Pope Francis Visit
JNS.org - The Palestinian Authority-sponsored Palestinian Museum has commissioned an art exhibit featuring famous pieces of art of Jesus's suffering modified to depict Israel's treatment...
U.S. Says Israel, Palestinian Authority Need to Resume Peace Talks on Their Own
Times of Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has no immediate intention of pressuring Israel and the Palestinians into resuming the stalled peace talks,...
Abbas: Palestinians to Refrain From Joining More International Organizations
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said he would refrain from having the PA join more United Nations bodies or other international...
Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman Hints at Private Talks With Palestinian Officials
Reuters - A senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government hinted on Saturday that Israel was involved in back-channel contacts with Palestinian and Arab officials...
R.Michael Lerner – Embracing Israel/Palestine
I have been reading Michael Lerner's book Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East during the week of Israeli Independence Day. The...
Peres: We Are Not Against Unity if Hamas Accepts Quartet Conditions
Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday that the Jewish state is not opposed to the Palestinian Authority's recent unity deal with Hamas as long...
PA’s Abbas and Hamas’s Meshaal Meet in Doha to Discuss Unity Deal
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal met on Monday for the first time since their factions signed a unity deal last month,...
Report: U.S. Supports Israel’s Opposition to Peace Talks With Palestinian Unity Government
Ynet - Israel has received "a specific commitment from the American administration" that it supports Jerusalem's vehement opposition to peace talks with any Palestinian government...
