Trump’s Middle East peace plan: the key points
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...
How Israel exploits Holocaust Remembrance Day
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...
Trump plan will ‘finish off Palestinian cause’, PM warns
Al-Jazeera / January 28, 2020
US president's proposal will dash hopes for an independent state, Palestinians officials say.
Palestinian leaders have decried US President Donald Trump's plan for the Middle East as an effort to "finish of the Palestinian cause".
Trump on Monday held separate meetings with right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival,...
What we know about Trump’s Middle East plan
Jihan Abdalla
Al-Jazeera / January 27, 2020
The US president is expected to release the details of a long-delayed plan for Israel and Palestine within days.
United States President Donald Trump is expected to soon release his long-awaited Middle East plan - more than two years after his administration began drafting its vision for a solution to...
Israel’s Gantz praises Trump [so-called] Middle East peace plan ahead of Tuesday announcement
Jack Dutton
The National / January 28, 2020
US President met both Israeli leaders in Washington, but Palestinians reject proposals.
Israel’s centrist Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz praised Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan and said he would help to implement it after his country’s general election.
Mr Gantz, Prime Minister...
Deal of the century offers non-sovereign Palestinian state
Middle East Monitor / January 27, 2020
US President Donald Trump’s deal of the century offers a non-sovereign Palestinian state which would not have an army or call East Jerusalem its capital, Rassd reported yesterday.
Quoting Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Rassd said Trump expects Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas to reject...
Israel police ban Al-Aqsa Mosque imam for four months
Middle East Monitor / January 27, 2020
Israeli occupation police interrogated Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque, for at least four hours, Anadolu reported yesterday.
Prior to the interrogation, Sheikh Sabri said: “I have been praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque for 70 years and have been giving sermons for 47 years. It is...
Senior Israel opposition leaders welcome Trump’s plan as within the Israeli ‘consensus’
Middle East Monitor / January 27, 2020
Senior Israeli opposition leaders expressed optimism about the contents of the pending Trump administration peace plan yesterday, reported right-wing news outlet Arutz Sheva.
MK Yair Lapid, the number two in the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party led by Benny Gantz, told Israeli army radio that the...
Israel minister: ‘We will not relinquish a single centimetre of the land of Israel...
Middle East Monitor / January 27, 2020
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennet sounded a defiant note yesterday ahead of the expected publication this week of the Trump administration’s peace plan for the region, reported Haaretz.
In no case, under no condition, will we allow for the establishment of a Palestinian state or...
Why has Human Rights Watch teamed up with Israeli warmongers?
David Cronin
The Electronic Intifada / January 27, 2020
Logic dictates that Human Rights Watch should call for a boycott of Israel.
Israel has, after all, taken a hostile stance toward the organization, even expelling its representative Omar Shakir.
Kenneth Roth, the director of Human Rights Watch, acknowledged a few months ago that Israel is not likely to...