The immediate release of terrorists incarcerated by Israel has remained a repeated demand by Hamas and recently, it added Barghouti to the list of those who must be freed.
While Israel has disavowed the creation of a unilateral Palestinian state, the US hopes for a future demilitarized Palestinian state living in peace with Israel
“Israel outright rejects international dictates regarding a final status agreement with the Palestinians," the government said in a statement.
One example of Haass's proposed strategy for navigating the Israel-Hamas conflict is for Biden to deliver a speech outlining the intentions of the war before the Israeli Knesset.
The decision comes after South Africa asked the World Court to consider whether Israel's plan to extend its offensive in Gaza into the city of Rafah requires additional emergency measures.
The United States and European countries have mostly held that Palestinian statehood recognition should be granted only once there is a final arrangement for a two-state resolution to the conflict.
Is the PA prepared to reinvent itself as a genuinely peaceful body? The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that it is not.
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
Recognition by the international “moral majority” of a Palestinian state is a Zionist imperative if Israel is to ensure its future as the democratic nation-state of the Jewish people.
Despite the bullets and bombs still flying, David Cameron saw fit to publicly suggest giving the Palestinians a reward for their heinous Oct. 7 assault on the Jewish state.
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