Tag: West Bank

"I reject with disgust the phrase 'Judea and Samaria,' it is the Palestinian West Bank, in the occupied Palestinian territories."

Sovereignty, the elections and Trump's peace plan have been destroyed with a single interview, but Israel can still make it happen...

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.

"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."

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

So they told Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to go back to the drawing board and submit a new request and this time stay below the page limit.

Alex Trebek walked into a landmine field.

Man, to be young again, and Jewish, and stupid.

"Rashida’s celebrating Jewish independence in Judea by describing the Jews that live there as occupiers."

It is against the law to sell property and land to a Jew in the Palestinian Authority. Some of those suspected of doing so were kidnapped and murdered.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted: "We firmly oppose this unjustified inquiry that unfairly targets Israel."

NGO Monitor dismissed the report as ”simply bizarre" and pointed out how it whitewashes terror.

Biden said he was getting “tired of everybody giving the Palestinian Authority a pass ... as if they’re not continuing to foment all of this.”

Bennett clarified that Israel would destroy any illegal construction, and therefore "it would be a shame to waste your money."

Yada, yada, yada.

It's a brave, new world, folks, and for some unexplained reason, our side is on the giving, not the receiving end. We could get used to this.

Qatar was instrumental in influencing Hamas to participate in the elections under Abbas’ terms and has pledged $25 million in funding for the elections

The Coalition for Jewish Values said the letter took a consistently hostile position towards Israel, misstated historical facts, and called on the administration to violate US law.

"Settlement expansion into the occupied West Bank makes a contiguous Palestinian state inviable, jeopardizing Israel’s future" as a democracy.

Many Arab and other officials from around the world have condemned the Pompeo declaration, saying it was a “threat to international system,” WAFA said.

“We are here, in Gush Etzion, a place we were expelled from in the War of Independence."

Pompeo enraged the Stalinist faction of the Democratic party, who immediately took to Twitter to set things right.

Israeli Transportation Minister and cabinet member Bezalel Smotrich said he suggested to the US to make the declaration in response to the EU court's labeling decree.

The plan, which includes a $283 million expansion of the road connecting Jerusalem and Gush Etzion, aims to "end the current isolation of Judea and Samaria ... so that the area is just like any other region in Israel," according to the Transportation Ministry.

His colleagues decided to plant an olive tree in his memory, a tree so often featured in stories about clashes between Jews and Arabs in Judea and Samaria.

Efforts to replicate the rocket threat in the Gaza Strip have been nipped in the bud due to Israel’s intelligence network and nightly counter-terrorism raids.

“I will welcome the Palestinian General Delegation back to Washington and I will reopen an American mission to the Palestinians in Jerusalem."

"Both Palestinians and Israelis must refrain from violence, and aggressive and provocative rhetoric."

Friedman receives an athletic scholarship from the Samaria Regional Council, as well as funding for his flights abroad to participate in competitions.

"The annexation plan will annex the entire Jordan Valley along the whole border from Lake Kinneret to the Dead Sea."