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An Israeli delegation accompanied by the US treasury secretary flew to Bahrain on Sunday to formalize nascent relations and broaden Gulf cooperation that Washington has promoted as an anti-Iran bulwark and potential economic bonanza, Reuters […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli parliamentarians on Thursday that the Israeli normalization deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has “no secret annexes or hidden clauses” before the Knesset overwhelmingly approved the deal, […]
US President Donald Trump asked UAE Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Zayed, to encourage other Arab nations to normalize relations with Israel, Arab48 reported on Monday. Citing a statement attributed to Judd Deere, deputy assistant to […]
Ninety percent of the Arabic-language social media posts about Israel’s normalization with the UAE and Bahrain have been negative, according to a report by the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Haaretz said that the study […]
Libya on Tuesday refused to assume the presidency of the current session of the Arab League after Palestine resigned the position in protest at the organization’s failure to take a stand against the UAE-Bahrain normalization […]
Lawmakers at the US House of Representatives introduced a bipartisan bill on Friday that could allow the occupying state of Israel to veto any American arms sales to the Arab countries. The proposed bill “would […]
In the early 1900s, Zionism’s founders laid out their strategy to build a Jewish state in Palestine. According to the plan, colonization had to be slow and covert, beginning with small land acquisitions. In the […]
Reports in the Times of Israel indicate that the annexation of land from the occupied West Bank will be suspended until 2024, confirming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that annexation is still on the agenda. With […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to negotiate with the US although he was under pressure from Arab countries, a Fatah movement official said Sunday, Anadolu reports. How Do #Democrats and #Republicans Differ on #Palestine and […]
As Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up to the podium flanked by the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the UAE to sign what has been hailed as a “historic peace agreement” between Israel and […]
Ascribing the euphemism, peace, for formally normalizing the relationship between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the smaller Island of Bahrain with Israel, is an abysmal attempt to repackage Jarred Kushner’s string of failures and […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was met by dozens of anti-corruption Israeli protesters and pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the White House yesterday, the Times of Israel reported. Israeli protesters gathered at the entrance to the […]
Hundreds of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank cities against the signing of normalization agreements with Israel by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain planned for later today in Washington. Palestinians demonstrated in Nablus, […]
Civil society groups in Bahrain have rejected the government’s normalization agreement with Israel which is expected to be signed formally in Washington DC on Tuesday. Seventeen organizations have issued a joint statement to this effect, with […]
Dozens of Palestinians rallied in Gaza on Saturday, expressing their anger at Gulf countries’ deals to normalize relations with the Jewish State, Reuters reported. Bahrain followed the UAE to become the fourth Arab country to […]
The Palestinian resistance movements have called for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) to withdraw its membership from the Arab League after its disavowal to support the Palestinian cause and fight normalization with Israel, Anadolu Agency reported. […]
Saeb Erekat, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said today that the Arab people, including in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, reject normalization with the occupation state, Israel, expressing […]
The country of Bahrain became the latest Arab nation to normalize ties with Israel, less than a month following a similar decision by the United Arab Emirates. The Bahraini decision, which was announced by US […]
Bahrain said Wednesday it was committed to the creation of a Palestinian state in talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, implicitly rejecting his push for Arab countries to swiftly normalize ties with Israel. […]
Iran and Hamas have condemned Israel’s participation in a US-led maritime security meeting which was held on Sunday in Bahrain, amid increasing normalization between the Jewish state and Gulf countries. The head of the Israeli Foreign […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday he was seeking “non-aggression” agreements with Gulf Arab nations that do not formally recognize the country as a prelude to possible future peace deals. Details of the proposal […]
Bahraini Foreign Minister Khaled Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa yesterday received salutations for the Muslim celebration of Eid from his Israeli counterpart and “friend” Yisrael Katz. Katz wrote on Twitter: “My friend Khalid Bin Ahmed Al […]
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifah and his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz held their first open and public meeting in the US on the sidelines of the Advance Religious Freedom conference on […]
A Hamas delegation headed by Dr. Musa Abu Marzouq yesterday met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Bogdanov in Moscow. Abu Marzouq briefed the Russian official on the political developments of the Palestinian issue including […]
The UN has contributed another contradiction in its assessment of Palestinian prospects following the “Peace to Prosperity” summit. Instead of highlighting how and why the UN has failed Palestine, a recent statement from Michael Lynk, […]
The “Peace to Prosperity” workshop was all about making a statement on the normalization of the colonial state of Israel. Forget simply normalizing “ties” with Israel; eliminating the settler-colonial context of the state in order […]
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, declined opportunities in an interview with CNN, Wednesday, to express support for Palestinian statehood. Speaking from Bahrain, Kushner responded to a question about a future independent state for […]
Bahrain hosted the economic version of the so-called Deal of the Century. A two-day conference, co-hosted by the United States, was held in the capital, Manama, on June 25-26. The Palestinian leadership has rightly refused to […]
President Mahmoud Abbas affirmed that Palestinian national rights are not traded for money. During a press conference with his Chilean counterpart Sebastian Piñera at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, Abbas stated: “The Palestinian national rights are […]
Head of Hamas’ political bureau Ismail Haniyeh has said that Bahrain conference “secures economic cover for a political attempt to liquidate the Palestinian cause.” Haniyeh’s statement came in a speech during a conference organized by Palestinian factions […]
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