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Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
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
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
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