Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

From left to right, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, takes a photo with his cellphone of journalists, during a meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, ahead of a press conference at Tahrir Palace, in Cairo, Egypt, January 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

January 11, 2021, 4:20 pm

Egypt, Germany, France, Jordan meet on reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

European foreign ministers sit down in Cairo ahead of Biden taking office, seeking to build on ‘positive regional context’ of Israel’s normalization deals with Arab states

By AP and TOI staff

File: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, left, gives a joint statement with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, July 20, 2020. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool via AP)

December 19, 2020, 5:27 pm

Amid normalization push, Egypt, Jordan, PA say only 2 states will solve conflict

Meeting in Cairo, foreign ministers agree to seek cooperation on Palestinian statehood with incoming Biden administration, speak out against settlement expansion

By TOI staff

FM Ashkenazi addressing, via video conference, the IISS Manama Dialogue, December 6, 2020 (screen shot IISS)

December 6, 2020, 4:24 pm

FM Ashkenazi: Normalization with UAE, Bahrain an ‘opportunity’ for Palestinians

Addressing Manama Dialogue conference, top diplomat urges direct peace talks without preconditions, says Abraham Accords weren’t at Ramallah’s ‘expense’

By AFP and TOI staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) meets with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah el-Sissi, in Cairo on November 30, 2020. (WAFA Images/Thayer Ghanayem)

December 5, 2020, 9:52 pm

Egypt’s Sissi said to tell Abbas he intends to broker Israeli-Palestinian talks

Unsourced TV report says two leaders agreed Egyptian president will invite Israeli, PA foreign ministers to Cairo as part of effort to renew peace negotiations

By TOI staff

Israelis light candles, as part of a display of 25,000 memorial candles in honor of the 25th Memorial Day for the assassination of late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on October 29, 2020.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

November 1, 2020, 8:22 pm

25 years after assassination, Rabin-lit hope for peace with Palestinians dims

Israeli mindset has shifted due to terror attacks, Hamas control of Gaza and, more recently, normalization deals with Arab states

By AFP and TOI staff

Palestinians protest against the peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 15 September 2020. (Flash90)

September 29, 2020, 1:41 pm

A peace paradox: Sidelined Palestinians may finally have their leverage

Israel’s inroads in the Arab world are based on strategic necessity. The Palestinians can’t stop the new peacemaking, but they can set a high price for it

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (L), Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (R) at press conference in the Jordanian capital Amman during an international meeting to discuss the Israel-Palestinian peace process, September 24, 2020. (Khalil Mazraawi/Pool/AFP)

September 24, 2020, 5:07 pm

Jordan, Egypt and EU urge renewal of Israel-Palestinian peace talks

At meeting in Amman, FMs cite need to ‘rebuild confidence to allow the relaunching of the negotiation process,’ say Israeli pledge to suspend annexation ‘should become permanent’

By AFP

Opposition leader Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid-Telem is pictured during an interview with AFP at his office in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on September 14, 2020. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

September 15, 2020, 12:30 pm

Lapid: Despite UAE, Bahrain deals, Netanyahu won’t talk peace with Palestinians

Opposition leader says talks with Ramallah should be in Israel’s interest, urges 2-state solution; Palestinians ‘need to be proactive instead of victimizing themselves forever’

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting to discuss the United Arab Emirates' deal with Israel to normalize relations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 18, 2020. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool Photo via AP, File)

August 26, 2020, 2:45 pm

‘We are not defeated’: PA leaders say they won’t bend in face of mounting crises

With no support from US, friction with Hamas, and claiming betrayal over UAE’s deal with Israel, Palestinian leadership pledges to keep seeking rights ‘generation after generation’

By Agencies and TOI staff

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh addressing a press conference in Ramallah on March 29, 2020. (Wafa)

June 29, 2020, 10:40 pm

In counter to US peace plan, Palestinians say ready for direct talks with Israel

Ramallah also tells peacemaking Quartet it agrees to ‘minor border changes,’ international peace-keeping force, but will withdraw offer if Israeli West Bank annexation proceeds

By AFP and TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the annual summit of Christians United for Israel on June 28, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

June 29, 2020, 10:34 am

As annexation looms, PM urges Palestinians to talks on basis of Trump plan

‘Israel is prepared for such negotiations,’ Netanyahu says in message to Evangelical Christian summit; appears to hint annexation could be limited to settlement blocs

By Michael Bachner

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a media conference after a meeting of EU foreign ministers by videoconference at the European Council building in Brussels on June 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

June 15, 2020, 10:36 pm

EU urges US to join new Israeli-Palestinian peace push, rejects Trump plan

Bloc’s top diplomat says Trump proposal ‘created a certain momentum where there was nothing,’ but talks must be based on ‘existing internationally agreed parameters’

By LORNE COOK

Ira Rappaport at his blueberry field, near Shiloh, on June 4, 2020 (Photo: courtesy)

June 6, 2020, 7:00 am

A radical settler wages war against annexation — but he is far from alone

For Ira Rappaport, who was a member of the Jewish Underground terror group in the 1980s, the Trump plan is a disaster; his misgivings are emblematic of growing alarm among settlers

By Shalom Yerushalmi

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (4th from right) tours the Efrat settlement with settler leaders on February 20, 2020. (Courtesy)

May 24, 2020, 3:06 am

How settler leaders may have scuttled a US plan for immediate annexation

Israeli mayors flew to DC for Trump plan rollout, believing US would back sovereignty within days, but 1 of them says colleague’s press release blasting proposal changed everything

By Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (2nd-L) at the northern West Bank settlement of Ariel on February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

May 6, 2020, 12:59 pm

US ambassador says Washington ‘ready to recognize annexation’ within weeks

David Friedman tells newspaper that applying sovereignty in parts of West Bank is up to Israel, as long as it’s done within framework of Trump peace plan

By TOI staff