Just days after the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu proposed a suspension of West Bank settlement activity, his Cabinet has proclaimed Jewish settlements a national priority and approved millions of dollars for new construction in them. →
Israel’s decision to temporarily halt construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank could be conducive to a lastng settlement in the Middle East. →
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced a 10-month partial moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The halt doesn’t embrace the settlements that are already being built as well as construction sites in East Jerusalem. →
Egypt categorically rejects an Israeli proposal for a Palestinian state within provisional borders that do not embrace East Jerusalem. President Hosni Mubarak told this to the press on Sunday after discussing Middle East matters with his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres at a meeting with him in Cairo. →
The Israeli authorities have allowed the construction of several hundred flats on Palestinian lands. Jerusalem’s city council →
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on Sunday to retaliate if Palestinians declare a unilateral state, warning that such a move would unravel existing agreements with Tel Aviv. →
The Palestinian Independent state still remains an unrealized dream, leader of the Palestinian autonomy Mahmud Abbas said Sunday on the occasion of Palestine’s Independence Day. It has been 21 years since the establishment of the Palestinian state on the Western bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip with the capital in Eastern Jerusalem was proclaimed. →
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned Israel against what he called provocative steps Tel Aviv is currently taking in Eastern Jerusalem. The Voice of Russia’s Vyachslav Solovyov has more. →
The US has proposed nothing new for peace regulation between Palestinians and Jews, said Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestinian National Authority, to the Al Arabiya TV channel. This statement proves the failure of the recent meeting of the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Mahmoud Abbas in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. →