Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Palestinian leaders at the Muqata, the PA headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 25, 2019. (Wafa news agency)

August 14, 2019, 12:54 am

Abbas said to snub visiting Republican Congress members

‘I think he saw the Republicans as maybe not worth his time,’ says GOP lawmaker, days after Palestinian president met with delegation of Democrats

By TOI staff

Democratic Camp candidate Noa Rothman meets PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on August 13, 2019 (via Twitter)

August 13, 2019, 10:20 pm

Democratic Camp candidates, including Rabin’s granddaughter, meet Abbas

Amid growing calls for annexation, Noa Rothman says she’s ‘furious and disappointed’ Netanyahu hasn’t made headway on peace deal in decade

By TOI staff

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)

July 29, 2019, 8:10 pm

Egypt, Jordan leaders hold talks over Israeli-Palestinian peace

Meeting comes ahead of Jared Kushner’s visit to region to advance Trump’s plan, after last month’s Bahrain workshop

By AFP

Screen capture from an interview with US Middle East Peace Envoy Jason Greenblatt with PBS News Hour, published July 17, 2019. (PBS)

July 18, 2019, 10:17 am

Israel is the victim in conflict with Palestinians, says US peace envoy

Jason Greenblatt tells PBS broadcaster he ‘can’t think of single instances’ in which the Jewish state made mistakes, but concedes ‘no one is perfect’

By Stuart Winer

Newly elected Labor Party leader Amir speaks at a party conference in Tel Aviv on July 9, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

July 13, 2019, 1:44 pm

Labor head says conflict with Hamas helping Netanyahu avoid peace talks

On campaign trail, Amir Peretz says PM would react differently if it were West Bank settlement fields being set ablaze rather than land in the south

By TOI staff

US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas shake hands during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

July 3, 2019, 6:49 pm

Kushner hints Palestinian refugees won’t return, says Trump ‘very fond’ of Abbas

Promising a ‘pragmatic’ solution, president’s son-in-law says Jewish refugees from 1948 were looked after, but Arab states have ‘not absorbed a lot’ of Palestinian refugees

By Raphael Ahren and Agencies

Screen capture of the Arabic version of the White House's 'Peace to Prosperity' economic plan, June 2019. (The White House)

July 2, 2019, 4:20 pm

A week after Bahrain conference, US releases Arabic version of economic plan

Envoy says Palestinian people deserve to judge for themselves what Washington is proposing for them

By TOI staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump (R) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

July 1, 2019, 2:57 pm

Erdogan says ‘out of question’ to support US Palestinian plan

After Trump insists Palestinians want to negotiate despite boycotting White House, Turkish leader says no way to ‘approach this issue positively’

By TOI staff and AFP

Protesters at the Bahrain embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday June 27, 2019. (screen capture: twitter)

June 28, 2019, 5:29 pm

Iraq denounces ‘attack’ on Baghdad’s Bahrain embassy by peace confab protesters

Foreign minister expresses hope that incident won’t ‘undermine diplomatic relations’ between two countries after crowd plants Palestinian flag on top of building in compound

By Agencies

Iraqi security forces stand guard near the Bahraini embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, after protesters stormed the compound to protest the US-led peace conference hosted by Bahrain earlier in the week. June 27, 2019. (AP/Ali Abdul Hassan)

June 27, 2019, 11:22 pm

Iraqis storm Bahrain embassy in Baghdad to protest peace conference

Crowd plants Palestinian flag on top of building in compound; Manama condemns attack, recalls ambassador

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue

Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa speaks with the Times of Israel on the sidelines of the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain, on June 26, 2019. (Courtesy)

June 27, 2019, 8:51 pm

Israel lauds Bahrain FM for friendly comments, invites journalists to visit

Hoping for closer ties, Foreign Ministry says ‘direct contact is the key to peace,’ after Shaikh Khalid Al Khalifa’s first interviews with Israeli media

By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, speaks to reporters as he closes the US-sponsored Middle East economic conference "Peace to Prosperity Workshop" in the Bahraini capital Manama on June 26, 2019. (SHAUN TANDON / AFP)

June 27, 2019, 2:39 pm

Kushner hails Bahrain conference as ‘tremendous success’

Trump adviser says his ‘detailed and reasonable’ plan to revive Palestinian economy was well received by workshop attendees, says $50 billion stimulus package not a bribe

By TOI staff

In this June 25, 2019, photo released by Bahrain News Agency, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner talks to the audience during the opening session of the "Peace to Prosperity" workshop in Manama, Bahrain. (Bahrain News Agency via AP)

June 26, 2019, 2:26 pm

Investors at Bahrain workshop say peace is the missing piece in US Mideast plan

IMF chief believes major economic growth in Palestinian territories possible, but lasting political stability essential for prosperity

By Matthew Lee

In this June 25, 2019, photo released by Bahrain News Agency, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, fifth from left, and Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, sixth from left, listen to White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, standing, during the opening session of the "Peace to Prosperity" workshop in Manama, Bahrain (Bahrain News Agency via AP)

June 25, 2019, 8:32 pm

In Bahrain, Kushner urges absent Palestinians to seize ‘opportunity of century’

Launching Manama confab, Trump adviser says economic progress is precondition to peace, assures Palestinians the US hasn’t ‘given up on you,’ hopes their leaders will show courage

By Raphael Ahren and AFP

Palestinians step on a placard displaying pictures of Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Bahraini King Hamad al-Khalifa, Oman's Sultan Qaboos in Muscat, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, during a protest denouncing the US-led Peace to Prosperity conference in Bahrain, in Gaza City on June 24, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

June 25, 2019, 6:41 am

Bahrain confab set to kick off with loaded schedule but meager expectations

Tony Blair, Steve Mnuchin and Jared Kushner will speak in Manama, along with a slew of technocrats and businesspeople, but just as telling may be who is not on the agenda

By Raphael Ahren