Palestinian statehood

Israel's Ambassador to UN agencies in Geneva Aviva Raz-Schechter (Elma Okic/UN Photo)

January 22, 2019, 12:59 pm

Israel blocks Palestinian bid to get observer status at UN disarmament panel

‘In close coordination with US,’ Jerusalem thwarts Ramallah’s effort to ‘politicize professional UN forums’; Israeli diplomat elected vice-chair of UN Committee on NGOs

By Raphael Ahren

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, October 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

January 2, 2019, 9:20 am

Liberman revealed Trump peace plan details to Palestinian officials — report

Sources quoted by London-based paper claim ex-defense minister said plan will include Palestinian state in Gaza, limited autonomy in West Bank; Liberman says report ‘incorrect’

By Michael Bachner

Palestinians wave their national flag during a rally in Ramallah on November 29, 2012, to support Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's bid for UN recognition of statehood. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

December 27, 2018, 1:17 pm

For first time since 2011, Palestine to apply for full UN membership

Though bid is doomed to fail due to expected US veto, Israeli envoy attacks Ramallah for ‘destructive policies that have encouraged recent terror ‎attacks’

By Raphael Ahren

PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaking at a Christmas Eve dinner in Bethlehem, December 24, 2019. (Wafa)

December 25, 2018, 12:49 am

Abbas: We want America’s friendship, but it must deal with us justly

Palestinian leader calls on Trump to ‘implement’ UN Security Council resolution that deemed settlements illegal during waning days of Obama presidency

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd from right) meets at his Jerusalem office with the ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer (right); White House adviser Jared Kushner (center); US Ambassador David Friedman (second left); and special envoy Jason Greenblatt, on June 22, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

December 24, 2018, 6:58 pm

US signals snap Israeli election could affect peace plan rollout

April vote is ‘one of many factors we are considering’ in determining timetable of proposal’s release, White House official says

By TOI staff and Agencies

Education Minister and leader of the Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett speaks with the media as he arrives for a special faction meeting in the Israeli outpost of Givat Assaf, in the West Bank on December 17, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

December 23, 2018, 8:15 pm

Minister says Trump peace plan includes Palestinian state – and he’ll oppose it

Naftali Bennett vows his Jewish Home party will not agree to the creation of an ‘Arab entity’ west of the Jordan River

By TOI staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with the Australian federal opposition leader Bill Shorten, center, and senator Penny Wong in Sydney, February 24, 2017. (William West/Pool Photo via AP)

December 18, 2018, 1:39 pm

Australian Labor party says it will recognize Palestinian state if in power

Foreign affairs senator Penny Wong tells national conference that she is a friend of both Israel and the Palestinians, calls West Jerusalem recognition ‘all risk and no gain’

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg interviews author Margaret Atwood (not shown) during the ninth annual Women in the World Summit on April 13, 2018, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

December 8, 2018, 3:55 am

New York Times columnist defends anti-Zionism

Michelle Goldberg says as long as Israeli government de facto opposes Palestinian statehood, rejecting Jewish ethno-nationalism is legitimate, does not constitute anti-Semitism

By Ben Sales

ICC's prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, right, and deputy prosecutor James Stewart, center, at the International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Nov. 23, 2018. (Piroschka van de Wouw/pool/AP)

December 5, 2018, 11:47 pm

ICC prosecutors report ‘significant’ progress in Palestinian probe

Officials say they plan to complete ‘as early as possible’ a preliminary investigation into allegations of crimes in West Bank, Gaza

By AP and Raphael Ahren

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks to students at Bar Ilan University on November 26, 2018. (Screen capture/Hadashot news)

November 27, 2018, 8:19 am

Attorney general: ICC can’t rule on conflict as there is no Palestinian state

Avichai Mandelblit says he opposes legislation that violates international law, but adds Knesset has right to advance such measures nonetheless

By Jacob Magid

National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, October 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

October 3, 2018, 9:39 pm

US pulls out of Vienna treaty amendment to block Palestinian lawsuit

National Security Adviser Bolton says US ‘will not sit idly by’ in face of ‘baseless politicized claims,’ asserts Palestine is ‘not a state’

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinian protesters wave UN and national flags in front of a fabiricated giant refugee card of their President Mahmud Abbas, during a protest against the US decision earlier this year to cut funds to UN aid to Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on September 26, 2018. (AFP/Musa Al SHAER)

September 27, 2018, 7:02 pm

Palestine confirmed to head massive bloc of developing countries at UN

Egypt’s Sissi hands over to Abbas the presidency of G77, a group of 134 nations comprising some 80 percent of the world’s population

By Raphael Ahren

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn waves to delegrates after giving his keynote speech on the final day of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, north west England on September 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Oli SCARFF)

September 26, 2018, 4:19 pm

Corbyn says UK will immediately recognize Palestinian state if he’s elected

UK Labour leader condemns anti-Semitism, along with the nation-state law and the killing of ‘unarmed demonstrators’ in Gaza

By Michael Bachner and TOI staff

Ireland's Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, speaks to the media, at Iveagh House in Dublin, August 16, 2017. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

September 23, 2018, 2:42 pm

Irish FM: We’ll recognize Palestine if peace talks remain stalled

At press conference with PA foreign minister, Simon Coveney warns that ‘a lot of other countries in Europe’ are likely to do the same

By TOI staff

Protesters wave pro-independence Catalan Estelada flags during a demonstration in Barcelona on October 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Pau Barrena)

September 22, 2018, 4:55 pm

Pro-Israel group warns Spain against recognizing Palestinian state

Head of ACOM says Jerusalem may recognize Catalonia if Madrid follows through with move; Foreign Ministry won’t comment

By JTA