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February 5, 2020

Trump’s Middle East peace plan ‘will die’ before president, Iran’s top leader says

Iran’s top leader is predicting that President Trump’s Middle East peace plan, meant to solve the decades-long Israel-Palestinian conflict, “will die” in Trump’s lifetime, state media reported Wednesday.

February 4, 2020

Israel's Netanyahu backtracks from immediate West Bank settlement annexation plan, will wait until after March election: report

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed his earlier statements about his plans to immediately annex West Bank Settlements following the unveiling of President Trump’s Middle East peace plan saying on Tuesday that he would only ask the government to approve the proposed annexation after the March 2 election, according to reports.

February 4, 2020

Lebanese-American being held in Beirut now risks death sentence after murder charge, judge says

A Lebanese-American man is now risking a death sentence after being charged with murdering and torturing the country’s citizens during Israel’s former occupation, one of the country’s judges said Tuesday.

February 2, 2020

Cal Thomas: The fatal flaw in Trump's Middle East peace plan

The flaw in the Trump plan is that it is designed, like all the others, by people whose thinking is radically different from Arab and Muslim leaders.

February 1, 2020

Palestinian leader Abbas says he is cutting ties with United States and Israel over peace deal

Palestianian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he will cut ties with Israel and the U.S. on Saturday in reaction to a U.S.-brokered peace plan that immediately met with furious objections from the Palestinians.

January 31, 2020

Israel strikes targets in Gaza after Palestinians fire 3 rockets

Israel’s military said Friday it conducted airstrikes in response to a Palestinian missile attack in the Gaza Strip.

January 31, 2020

Trump's Mideast peace plan could have major long-term implications for ally Jordan

President Trump released his “deal of the century” plan for Middle East peace, called Peace to Prosperity, on January 28 alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Noticeably absent from the unveiling ceremony was any representative from the Palestinian Authority or the Kingdom of Jordan.

January 31, 2020

Qanta Ahmed: Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan deserves Arab League support

When the 22 members of the Arab League convene in Cairo Saturday to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan unveiled Tuesday by President Trump, they have a historic opportunity to endorse a fair and equitable vision that would create a demilitarized Palestinian state able to live in peace with Israel. This is an offer too good to turn down.

January 30, 2020

American-Israeli woman released from Russian prison day after Putin pardoned drug charges

An American-born Israeli woman, who was detained in a Russian prison on drug charges for nearly a year, reunited with her mother in Moscow on Thursday after a pardon from President Vladimir Putin granted her release.

January 29, 2020

Israel delays plans to annex parts of West Bank

Israel on Wednesday delayed plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to act on President Trump’s Middle East peace plan meant to end decades of conflict between Israelis and the Palestinians.