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On the sidelines of the 28th Arab League Summit on March 29, 2017, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan (C) and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. (Wafa/Thaer Ghnaim)
March 30, 2017, 8:25 pm
Egypt, Jordan, PA look to coordinate stances ahead of White House visits
Palestinian foreign ministry says trips by Sissi, King Abdullah will set tone for Abbas's later meeting with Trump
By Dov Lieber and AP
Jordan's King Abdullah II, right, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi listen to their national anthems during a welcome ceremony for the latter at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on March 28, 2017 ahead of talks on the eve of the Arab League summit. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
March 30, 2017, 6:25 pm
Arab leaders send a message to Trump: Palestine first
The Arab League summit concluded with a clear call: to prioritize creating a Palestinian state. And the president might just be listening
By Avi Issacharoff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, February 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 27, 2017, 6:51 pm
After foreign trips, Netanyahu says Israel is ‘rising global power’
Returning from Australia and Singapore, PM says Jewish state enjoys growing global standing and is 'sought after by many'
By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a joint press conference in Sydney, Australia, on February 22, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)
February 26, 2017, 6:37 am
Netanyahu: We will never relinquish security control of West Bank
In conversation with Australian foreign minister, PM says Israel learned from long experience that it can't rely on international forces to protect it
By TOI staff
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with the Australian Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten in Sydney, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. (William West/Pool Photo via AP)
February 24, 2017, 8:27 am
Meeting PM, Australia Labor head pushes Palestinian state
Opposition leader Bill Shorten says he told Netanyahu 'clearly and unambiguously' that West Bank settlements hindering peace deal
By AP and TOI staff
UN Special Coordinator Nikolay Mladenov, February 9, 2015. (CC BY-SA Ottokars, Wikipedia)
February 16, 2017, 7:20 pm
UN: Two-state solution remains the ‘only way’
Middle East envoy Mladenov urges two sides to avoid a future of 'perpetual conflict, rising extremism and occupation'
By AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not seen) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/ SAUL LOEB)
February 16, 2017, 10:23 am
US papers slam Trump’s ‘absurd,’ ‘nonsensical’ retreat from two-state plan
Leading dailies say 'naive' president can't reach peace, will only make region more dangerous
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
February 15, 2017, 10:02 pm
Allowing Trump’s talk of a one-state solution to go unchallenged, Netanyahu fails Israel
Op-ed: The president told the world he personally doesn't mind if there's a one-state or a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But a single entity between river and sea means the end of Jewish, democratic Israel. How dare Israel's PM not point that out?
By David Horovitz
French Ambassador to the United Nations Francois Delattre (screen capture: YouTube)
February 15, 2017, 7:13 pm
France’s support for two-state solution ‘stronger than ever’
As White House appears to step away from longstanding policy, Paris stresses support for Palestinian statehood
By AFP
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks via a satellite feed during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2016 Policy Conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, March 22, 2016. (AFP / SAUL LOEB)
February 13, 2017, 6:58 pm
More Americans support – and oppose – Netanyahu than ever, poll finds
Gallup survey finds PM enjoys nearly 50% favorability rating, but also record 30% thumbs down; Americans divided on Palestinian statehood
By JTA and TOI staff
US President Donald Trump salutes the crowd after the swearing-in ceremony as 45th President of the USA in front of the Capitol in Washington on January 20, 2017. (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)
January 29, 2017, 4:28 pm
Trump’s love is toxic for US Zionism
Israel is losing US Jewish support on the battlefield of public opinion, and the new president is speeding its defeat
By Jeff Robbins
President Donald Trump reading the first of three executive orders he signed in the Oval Office, January 23, 2017. (Ron Sachs/Pool/Getty Images)
January 26, 2017, 1:31 am
Trump said set to halt funding for UN agencies, other groups that give PA, PLO full membership
President preparing executive orders that would also stop payments to organizations linked to terror-sponsoring states, NY Times says
By Eric Cortellessa
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)
January 22, 2017, 6:53 pm
Netanyahu says Palestinians can have a ‘state minus’
PM tells ministers that his version of two-state solution is one the PA refuses to accept; Palestinian official slams remark
By TOI staff
January 16, 2017, 1:30 pm
Diplomatic delusions in Paris
To suggest the conference’s international pressure will yield Palestinian goals of statehood is unfair and disingenuous
By Eran Lerman
French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Marc Ayrault addresses delegates at the opening of the Mideast peace conference in Paris on January 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas SAMSON)
January 15, 2017, 11:24 am
Kicking off summit, Paris says now not time to halt peace effort
Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault says two states is only solution acceptable to international community; Netanyahu calls conference 'pointless'
By TOI staff and Agencies
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