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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards his aircraft before his departure from King Hussein International Airport in Jordan's southern Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba, Jordan, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)
December 5, 2025, 3:27 pm
The day after that never came: How time ran out on Blinken’s plan for postwar Gaza
Top Biden diplomat’s proposal sought to end the war while reviving the Saudi normalization talks derailed on Oct. 7. But he couldn’t get it finalized, and Trump now faces many of the same obstacles
By Jacob Magid
Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad in June 2011. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
July 7, 2021, 12:14 am
Former Palestinian PM Fayyad visits Gaza, Ramallah to push unity government
Fayyad said to meet with PA President Abbas, Hamas officials to advance initiative that could see him take the top spot
By Aaron Boxerman
Right-wing activists hang Palestinian flags along a West Bank highway on July 7, 2019 (Courtesy of Regavim)
July 7, 2019, 11:30 am
Right-wing group hangs Palestinian flags on West Bank roads, spooking settlers
Regavim stunt prompts flurry of complaints; organization’s co-founder Bezalel Smotrich, now the minister of transportation, initially condemns Palestinian ‘audacity’
By ToI Staff
US-based Palestinian billionaire Adnan Mjalli (Courtesy/Facebook)
January 24, 2019, 5:09 am
Bomb reportedly blows up $500,000 Mercedes of billionaire seen as Abbas rival
TV report says N. Carolina-based pharma tycoon Adnan Mjalli was not in the car at the time; move seen as a warning to him not to enter race to succeed elderly Palestinian leader
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 27, 2018. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool Photo via AP)
July 2, 2018, 12:51 pm
Abbas said seeking unity government with Hamas to counter US peace maneuvers
Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper says PA president has asked former PM Salam Fayyad to lead new coalition with aim of later calling general election
By Stuart Winer
US President Donald Trump (right) giving a joint statement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, May 3, 2017. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)
December 24, 2017, 9:35 pm
Seeing Trump as ‘lost cause,’ Abbas said to widen boycott to US consular staff
Palestinian leader severs ties even to US consulate, Israeli TV claims; Trump said to be withholding peace plan or seeking Abbas alternative; White House official dismissive
By ToI Staff
Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies program, introduces US Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before remarks at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2016. (DoD Photo by US Army Sgt. James K. McCann)
October 17, 2017, 4:56 am
The ex-Bush staffer whose ‘Jewish sensibility’ made him a leading Trump critic
Former counselor to the State Department Eliot Cohen argues it’s a mistake for ‘another highly identifiable American Jew’ to lead Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy for US
By Eric Cortellessa
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley testifies during a US House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 28, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)
July 4, 2017, 3:52 pm
PA accuses Nikki Haley of racism, being ‘anti-Palestinian’
Citing efforts by America’s UN envoy to thwart resolution on Hebron, PA says she’s more an ambassador for Israel than for the US
By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley testifying at the House State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee, June 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
June 28, 2017, 2:48 am
Haley promises to block any appointment of Palestinian official to senior UN post
US envoy to UN says Washington will oppose such moves because US does not recognize Palestine as a state
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is projected on screen in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2017, as he speaks to attendees of the AIPAC Policy Conference 2017 via satellite from Israel (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
March 27, 2017, 11:29 pm
Nikki Haley tells AIPAC: At the UN now, ‘there’s a new sheriff in town’
US envoy to UN vows to prevent any repeat of anti-settlement resolution; Paul Ryan rails against Iran, BDS movement
By ToI Staff
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cairo on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
February 18, 2017, 1:36 pm
UN chief: US blocking Palestinian pick for Libya envoy was ‘serious mistake’
At Munich conference, Guterres says DC should not have regarded Salam Fayyad as a representative of the Palestinian government
By AP
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during a press conference in Istanbul, February 10, 2017. (AFP/OZAN KOSE)
February 13, 2017, 12:05 pm
UN chief ‘deeply regrets’ US blocking his Palestinian pick
Antonio Guterres says former PA prime minister Salam Fayyad was right for the job of Libya envoy
By AP
Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich and ZIonist Camp MK Tzipi Livni attend a committee meeting regarding the so-called Regulation Bill in the Knesset on November 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 12, 2017, 10:05 pm
Right-wing lawmakers back Livni for possible UN appointment
Jewish Home’s Shaked and Smotrich praise opposition MK as a ‘patriotic Zionist with experience’ who would do a great job
By ToI Staff
Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, seen here when still in office, heads a cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 16, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
February 12, 2017, 4:03 pm
Netanyahu hails US veto of ex-Palestinian PM as Libya UN envoy
After Washington blocks appointment of Salaam Fayyad, PM says ‘free gifts cannot be constantly given to the Palestinian side’
By AFP
Zionist Union's MK Tzipi Livni at a party faction meeting in the Knesset on January 16, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 12, 2017, 5:27 am
Will Tzipi Livni be the first Israeli deputy chief of the UN?
Antonio Guterres meets the Zionist Union MK twice in three weeks; move seen as effort to garner support for a former Palestinian PM as Libya envoy
By ToI Staff
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