By Nahal Toosi POLITICO The House voted overwhelmingly to rebuke the United Nations for passing a resolution that condemned Israeli settlement construction, a bipartisan slap that also targets the Obama administration while signaling a rocky road ahead for U.S.-U.N. relations under soon-to-be-President Donald Trump. The House measure, which passed 342-80 on Thursday, is likely to … Continued
Secretary of State John Kerry speaking about the Arab-Israeli conflict at the State Department on December 28th. By Yousef Munayyer The New Yorker Last Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a lengthy and impassioned speech on Israel and Palestine that will go down as a major moment in American Middle East diplomacy. Despite speaking for more … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer Arab American political pundit Omar Baddar shares his take on the unraveling news about Israeli settlements. Since the U.S. abstention from the vote on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 on December 23, which called for an immediate halt to Israel’s illegal settlement program, the media has given special attention to the fallout. … Continued
By Zena Tahhan Al Jazeera Israeli forces have killed more Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem in 2016 than any other year in the last decade, rights group Defence for Children International (DCI) has said. The organisation’s chapter in the occupied Palestinian territories recorded the killings of 32 Palestinian children (under 18), … Continued
BBC Sgt Elor Azaria, 20, shot Abdul Fatah al-Sharif, 21, in the head while he was lying immobile on a road. The incident happened in Hebron in the occupied West Bank last March, after another soldier was stabbed. Sgt Azaria said he thought Sharif might have an explosive vest, but prosecutors said his motive was … Continued
By James Zogby Arab American Institute United States secretary of state John Kerry’s valedictory speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unleashed a firestorm of criticism from the very same folks who had just finished hyperventilating over the US abstention on a United Nations Security Council resolution a few days earlier. The speech was divided into … Continued
Associated Press Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he is willing to work with President-elect Donald Trump to reach a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel. Abbas spoke Saturday at an event marking the anniversary of his Fatah party. He said “We want to emphasize our willingness to work with the newly-elected American administration… to … Continued
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in front of a new Jewish settlement construction site, in the Occupied West Bank [Reuters] By Stanley L Cohen Al Jazeera Last week, the world stood fixated at a largely symbolic gesture by the United Nations in which it found the continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank of Palestine to be … Continued
By Jessica Schulberg The Huffington Post The best way to understand outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry’s Wednesday speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to recognize that if Hillary Clinton had won the election, he most likely never would have delivered such an address. In the harshest criticism from a member of the U.S. government against … Continued
By Aaron David Miller The New York TImes I have worked for half a dozen Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, and when it came to the issue of moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, my advice was always the same: Don’t. The main reason? There is simply no compelling American national interest that would … Continued
By Greg Richter Newsmax President-elect Donald Trump might be in violation of U.S. law by involving himself in the spat between the Obama administration and Israel, James Zogby said, president of the Arab-American Institute. “Donald Trump has acted in a way that I believe violates the Logan Act,” Zogby said Monday on “MSNBC Live.” The Logan … Continued
Jerusalem west of the green line. Trump pledged to move the US embassy to Jerusalem – a potentially explosive move. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP By Harriet Sherwood The Guardian The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has set out the parameters for a potential resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a last throw of the dice on … Continued
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