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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
Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat speaks at the J Street National Conference, in Washington, October 28, 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
April 30, 2020, 10:32 pm
Top PLO official urges world action, not words, to block West Bank annexation
While thanking countries for not forsaking Palestinians amid pandemic, Saeb Erekat says Netanyahu ‘can survive statements of condemnation’ but must hear ‘consequences’
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert hold a press briefing on February 11, 2020 in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)
February 12, 2020, 5:36 pm
Despite ostensible failure at UN, Trump plan has restored Abbas’s leadership
The Palestinian leader has regained his people’s support; the Israeli right is wrong to claim he was never a partner, and Netanyahu is to blame for the two-state solution’s demise
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert hold a press briefing on February 11, 2020 in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)
February 11, 2020, 11:55 pm
Olmert and Abbas meet in New York, urge direct talks as Trump plan rejected
Netanyahu slams meeting as ‘low point in Israeli history’; PA leader says he’s willing to pick up negotiations from where he left off with former Israeli PM in 2008
By TOI staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
February 11, 2020, 9:18 pm
US celebrates withdrawal of UN Security Council resolution against peace plan
After Palestinian-spearheaded measure is pulled, Trump official says the world body has ‘demonstrated that the old way of doing things is over’
By Eric Cortellessa and Raphael Ahren
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, speaks while Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, looks on during a media conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sunday July 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
February 7, 2020, 4:00 am
Kushner slams planned Olmert-Abbas meet as ‘almost pathetic’
President’s son-in-law and architect of Trump peace plan says Palestinian leader and former Israeli PM are ‘jealous’ they failed to make peace themselves
By Eric Cortellessa
Dr. Micah Goodman on the grounds of his Ein Prat Midrasha in Alon. (YouTube screenshot)
February 6, 2020, 6:15 am
LISTEN: Rebrand Trump plan as Road Map ‘Phase 2,’ says ‘Catch-67’s Micah Goodman
As the philosopher/author strives to take the decades-old conflict out of stalemate, it just may behoove Israeli and American politicians to listen to this out-of-the-box thinker
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Land designated by the Trump plan to become a Palestinian enclave, just inside the Israel-Egypt border, on February 3, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
February 5, 2020, 11:35 am
Trump peace plan offers land without people to people who don’t want the land
With no warning, Israeli farmers on Egypt border find themselves set to be surrounded by Palestinian enclaves. Asks one: Does this look like a map put together by serious people?
By Jacob Magid
View of the border area between Israel and Egypt as it seen from Route 10, southern Israel, on December 5, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
February 3, 2020, 6:29 am
3 chunks of Israeli land for Palestine, and 5 more overlooked parts of US plan
Among less touted elements of Trump deal are proposals to free Palestinian prisoners, give ‘Palestine’ a strip of land along Egypt border, and, maybe, let Jews pray on Temple Mount
By TOI staff
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner is interviewed on the El-Hakaya Egyptian news show on February 1, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)
February 2, 2020, 4:21 pm
Kushner: Palestinians welcome to propose alternative to borders set out in plan
In apparent contradiction, White House adviser also says US moving to recognize annexation of settlements within months, but adds plan aims to ultimately stop settlement expansion
By TOI staff
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