Palestine: UN reiterates two-state solution based on 1967 borders
Middle East Monitor / January 30, 2020
The United Nations stressed on Wednesday its adherence to international legitimacy resolutions on the conflict in the Middle East, and bilateral agreements on the establishment of two states, living side by side in peace and security within recognised borders based on the 1967...
ICC war crime probe more likely to find Israel guilty says Israeli legal expert
Middle East Monitor / January 29, 2020
Israeli officials are at risk of being issued arrest warrants over possible war crimes in the occupied West Bank. That is the conclusion of Yuval Shany, an expert on international law at the Israel Democracy Institute.
Commenting on what may turn out to be...
The Elders warn that new US ‘peace’ plan for the Middle East is unworkable
Middle East Monitor / January 29, 2020
The Elders warned today that the new US proposals announced by President Donald Trump cannot provide a workable solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If implemented by Israel, they would make the two-state solution impossible, entrenching deep inequality along ethnic lines and moving the...
Donald Trump’s Middle East “peace plan” will not bring peace – the US and...
Jonathan Cook
The National / January 29, 2020
The proposal deliberately includes a host of unrealisable preconditions before what remains of Palestine can be recognised.
Much of Donald Trump’s long-trailed “deal of the century” came as no surprise. Over the past 18 months, Israeli officials had leaked many of its details. The...
Trump’s Middle East proposal a stark departure from US diplomacy and lacks regional support
Joyce Karam
The National / January 29, 2020
As the US president unveiled proposals, Israel was the only major stakeholder present.
From the Madrid conference in 1991 until the Obama administration’s trilateral summits between the Palestinians and Israelis two decades later, successive US presidents have tried to secure the presence of both...
Israel minister in Jordan Valley: This is land of ‘our forefathers’
Middle East Monitor / January 28, 2020
Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri toured the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank yesterday, a day before the Trump administration is expected to unveil its peace plan.
According to the report by right-wing news outlet Arutz Sheva, Deri – accompanied by Knesset...
UN rejects US deal of the century
Middle East Monitor / January 29, 2020
United Nations has rejected US President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ and reiterated that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved based on UN resolutions and international law.
In a statement, a copy of which sent to MEMO, Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the UN...
