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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 23, 2019

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The White House economic peace proposal unveiled on its web site on Saturday June 22, 2019 (Screencapture)

'Empower the Palestinians to realize their ambitions'

White House finally unveils ‘Peace to Prosperity’ economic plan for Palestinians

By Eric Cortellessa

Ahead of June 25-26 Bahrain conference, Trump team releases proposal for $50 billion package that’s supposed to transform economy of West Bank, Gaza and surrounding nations

A Palestinian man holds a $100 bill, part of $480 million in aid allocated by Qatar, in Gaza City on May 13, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

A look at some of the details of the economic aspect of the Trump peace plan

By AFP and ToI Staff

(From L to R) The foreign ministers of Egypt Sameh Shukri, Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir, the UAE Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Jordan Ayman Safadi, Bahrain Khaled bin Ahmad al-Khalifa and Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah, pose for a picture during the Arab foreign ministers meeting to discuss regional issues on January 31, 2019 in the Hussein bin Talal convention centre in the Dead Sea. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Egypt, Jordan say they’ll attend Bahrain workshop, but not at ministerial level

By AFP

US President Donald Trump reaches to shake Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's hand before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski)

Palestinians reject US economic plan as attempted bribe instead of a state

By ToI Staff and AP

As US proposes $50 billion package for region, Ramallah says nothing can be achieved without a political solution, end to Israeli occupation; Israeli officials positive on plan

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, May 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon slams US plan, says won’t be ‘tempted’ by cash at Palestinians’ expense

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians sort tomatoes on a conveyor belt at a tomato paste plant in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP)

Commentators in Arab world reject US economic plan for Palestinians

By AP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Trump’s ‘This is what you will be throwing away’ letter to the Palestinians

In theory, the Peace to Prosperity plan is hugely beneficial to the Palestinians. In practice, predictably, the PA has rejected it. What does the White House intend to do next?

US President Donald Trump (right) reaches to shake hands with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, May 3, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AnalysisUS economic plan avoids saying much, but does hint at future Israeli concessions

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisWhite House economic peace plan may be tough to sell to Netanyahu

US President Donald Trump, seated, holds up a signed proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, standing center, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, DC, March 25, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Israel media review

Economic peace in our time: 6 things to know for June 23

Trump initiative is met with expected skepticism from analysts who dismiss lofty project proposals designed for a Palestinian people unwilling to accept anything less than a state

Check Point Software Technologies co-founder Marius Nacht (Courtesy)

Check Point billionaire, Sheba hospital chief to attend Bahrain peace confab

By Shoshanna Solomon

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman claps as Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner delivers a speech during the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Kushner reveals peace plan to inject $50 billion into Middle East economies

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas takes notes during a meeting with journalists in the West Bank town of Ramallah on June 23, 2019. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas ‘certain’ US economic plan for Mideast peace will fail

PA president says though his government needs financial assistance, Palestinians ‘won’t be slaves’ to Trump administration

6:32 pm

Turkey's Erdogan congratulates Istanbul mayor-elect
6:24 pm

Pompeo calls drone map released by Iran 'child-like'
6:20 pm

UK diplomat in Tehran warns against 'escalation and miscalculation'

US National Security Adviser John Bolton, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 23, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

In Israel, Bolton warns Iran not to mistake US ‘prudence’ for ‘weakness’

By Raphael Ahren

After Trump calls off retaliatory strike, his national security adviser says Tehran has not been granted a ‘hunting license in Middle East’

Iran accuses US of previous drone breach, says it is inflaming the region

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian general warns any conflict in region could spread uncontrollably

By ToI Staff and AFP

Revolutionary Guard officials celebrate Iran’s downing of US drone

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 22, 2019, before boarding Marine One for the trip to Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump says US to hit Iran with ‘major’ new sanctions Monday

By AFP

US president clarifies that he still looks forward to day where such economic penalties won’t be necessary, claiming ‘the sooner the better!’

US reportedly launched cyber attack on Iran after drone downing

By AFP

Trump says he will be Iran’s ‘best friend’ if it renounces nuclear arms

Saudi airline changes flight routes to avoid Iran’s airspace, amid tensions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Avi Issacharoff

The bribe of the century

The Palestinian leadership’s unequivocal refusal to accept any part of the Trump plan dooms the plan to complete failure

Elisheva Thompson

Don’t touch me until you read my button

Post #MeToo, we wanted conference participants to feel included, safe and valued, so we asked them to consent: hugs, handshakes, no contact, or high-fives

Writer Linda Grant poses for photographers prior to the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 Shortlist party in central London, Tuesday Sept. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Author interview

Three years after referendum, UK Jewish writer’s new book tackles Brexit chaos

By Robert Philpot

Union of Right-Wing Parties chairman Rafi Peretz (R) and National Union faction chair Bezalel Smotrich at the party's 2019 election campaign launch, March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers approve Smotrich, Peretz for transportation, education portfolios

Gantz asks PM to prevent new minister Smotrich from joining security cabinet, calling appointment ‘security negligence in exchange for legal immunity’

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara at a press conference in the northern city of Safed, July 10, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Minister pulls candidacy for Egypt ambassadorship, citing attacks on him

Backdropped by Jerusalem's Old City Walls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a press conference with Moshe Kahlon, January 21, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Likud internal court rejects appeals against merger with Kulanu party

Zelda Burkey points to what remains of her home in Mevo Modi'im, which was destroyed along with much of the village in a fire in May 2019. (Sam Sokol/JTA)

Digging through the charred wreckage of the Carlebach moshav

More Headlines

In this Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 photo, a restoration expert works on a granite column inside the Church of the Nativity, built atop the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born, in the West Bank City of Bethlehem. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians say baptismal font discovered at Church of the Nativity

By AP and ToI Staff

A truck crashes into a pedestrian bridge connected to the Ramot mall in Jerusalem on June 23, 2019 (Israel Police)

Truck crashes into Jerusalem mall bridge

Real estate promoter and Tel Aviv nightlife figure Alon Kastiel arrives at the Hermon Prison in the northern part of Israel to begin serving his sentence for sex offenses, August 26, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Supreme Court rejects appeal by Tel Aviv nightlife sex offense convict

IDF soldiers flee from a group of Palestinian stone throwers on June 22, 2019. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Palestinians broadcast video appearing to show IDF troops fleeing stone-throwers

Magen David Adom ambulances at Ben Gurion airport as an El Al plane made an emergency landing, April 21, 2015. (MDA spokesperson/MDA operations)

1 dead, 1 seriously injured in warehouse accident at Ben Gurion Airport

Raz Bachar, center, and the Microsoft for Startups team in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Microsoft appoints new director for Israel startups program

By Shoshanna Solomon

Supporters of Maryam Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, demonstrate against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit in Paris, January 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Iran executes ‘defense ministry contractor’ over spying for CIA

By AFP

E. Jean Carroll in New york in 2006. (Juliean Nesmo/ Wikimedia Commons)

Trump denies knowing NY woman accusing him of sexual assault

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Timofy Ashturia, who was killed June 19, 2019 when he fell from a cliff in Bat Yam (Courtesy)

Bat Yam officials quizzed on suspected negligence in 9-year-old’s cliff death

In this image made from video, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announces a failed coup as he addresses the public on television, June 23, 2019 (ETV via AP)

Ethiopian army chief, regional president killed in ‘failed coup attempt’

By AFP

Illustrative photo of smashed tombstones in a Jewish cemetery. (AP/Hans Punz)

Jewish cemeteries desecrated in South Africa

By Stuart Winer

In this Saturday, August 12, 2017 photo, James Alex Fields Jr., second from left, holds a black shield in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist rally took place. Fields was later charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he plowed a car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally. (Alan Goffinski via AP)

Charlottesville killer blames Jewish grandfather, asks for mercy

By AP

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