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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...

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...

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...

Middle East Monitor  /  January 28, 2020 The UK government has acknowledged that Israel’s planning regime in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem leaves “Palestinians with little option but to build without permission”. Lord Ahmad, writing on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), was responding yesterday to a question concerning...

Jaclynn Ashly & Alaa Daraghmeh The Electronic Intifada  /  January 9, 2020 Even a college degree couldn’t help Fathi Taradi. Taradi, 34, tried for a decade to find work as a journalist in the occupied West Bank. He eventually had to settle on construction work in Jerusalem. “The first few days working in...

Omar Karmi The Electronic Intifada  /  January 29, 2020 After much anticipation and with great ceremony, on Tuesday US President Donald Trump presented his plan for Middle East peace. It’s “a great plan,” Trump had already said a few days ago, though he may just have been humouring his son-in-law Jared Kushner, its chief architect. On Tuesday, he called the plan “win-win,”...

The National  /  January 28, 2020 The plan calls for the creation of a state of Palestine with its capital in portions of occupied East Jerusalem President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a state of Palestine with its capital in portions...

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  January 27, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=731&v=C0FVOcGiZbI&feature=emb_logo Monday is the 75th anniversary of the Soviet army’s liberation of Auschwitz, the death camp in Poland built by the German government during World War II. The Nazis murdered more than one million people in Auschwitz, the vast majority European Jews. The anniversary of the camp’s liberation...