"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

"We won’t let this great opportunity slip through our fingers. We brought [the plan] and we are here to make it happen."

The EU is “especially concerned” by Israel’s statements on the prospect of the annexation of the Jordan Valley and other parts of Judea and Samaria ad stressed that it does not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over “the territories occupied since 1967.”

"it would be a disaster to establish a country for people with a culture of murder and bloodshed, who have been taught for generations that Jews should become food for fish."

Kushner intends to present the plan and then listen to feedback from the 14 members of the Council in the chamber during the session..

Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah officials believe they are marching toward the end of the Mahmoud Abbas era and the strategic failure of his “political intifada” against Israel.

It wasn't the Kremlin asking Netanyahu for the scoop about Trump's deal of the century, it was Netanyahu initiating the briefing.

Kushner told Egyptian TV that many people had told him the PA never wanted to make a peace deal at all over the years.

One thing is already clear: no one in Israel is going to annex anything this coming week.

Sadly, this expression of boundless patriotic joy remained a tiny island of light in an otherwise dark sea of doubt, misgivings and outright hostility – and that's Israeli Jews.

A senior Israeli diplomat said the US about-face came because the Americans "don’t want to deal with a step-by-step process."

Gantz apparently does not have the legal ability to move forward with pushing the Deal of the Century through the Knesset and must wait for Netanyahu’s government to vote on it.

Chairman Abbas has denounced the Trump deal this week, calling it a "conspiracy deal." Hamas was less emotional, saying the plan is "not worth the ink it was written with."

The strange “euphoria” and “messianic atmosphere” that the Prime Minister is trying to create is only a smokescreen that is hiding much greater concessions, which have not yet been revealed to the public.

Jared Kushner said that while the Trump administration clearly supports annexation, it also wants Israel to wait until after the upcoming Israeli election to move ahead with any annexation plans.

The PA is hoping Israel's leftwing parties will kill the Deal of the Century after the elections.

"I'll be clear," Bennett stressed, "Whatever is postponed until after the election will never happen. We all understand that."

Maimonides rules that a Jew is obligated to offer the Passover sacrifice even when the Temple has not yet been built.

"If the Israelis apply Israeli law to the settlements and to the territory that you’ll see soon enough is allocated to Israel under the plan […] then we will recognize Israeli sovereignty."

The fact is, the world is not interested in innovative peace plans, they don't want to read them and they certainly don't wish to appear as if they support it.

President Trump said the conceptual map with its proposed permanent borders makes clear the "territorial sacrifices Israel is willing to make for peace."

While the plan is currently being offered by Israel's greatest friend in the White House, ever, we must wonder how things would look like under, say, President Bernie Sanders.

This is the first time permanent borders have been proposed for Israel and a possible State of Palestine.

“We acknowledge that opposition in every form – particularly armed struggle – is capable of defending our rights."

"We decided to stop with the total blindness of following Netanyahu regarding the deal."

Israel continues to trust the Palestinians to torpedo their own chances of winning a state.

Abbas: “We need to escalate popular resistance on all fronts and recruit the young. We will examine the position of Hamas and Islamic Jihad."

"After the elections, I will work toward implementing it from within a stable functioning Israeli government ... with the other countries."

“There were attempts by Trump to hold a phone call with Abbas, but the latter refused,” a source told the Anadolu news agency.

"They probably won’t want it initially, but I think at the end they will. It’s very good for them, in fact, it’s overly good to them."

A separate meeting with Blue and White faction leader Benny Gantz followed.