Alwaght- Taking cue from Syrias Geneva peace negotiations, France unveiled its proposal for a peace deal between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli regime on January 31, 2016, promising to work on holding an international conference to push resumption of the peace dialogue between the two sides. The French initiative faced an Israeli opposition ...

Jordan formally submitted to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday a draft resolution calling for peace between Israel and the Palestinians and the end to Israels occupation of Palestinian territories, Reuters news agency reported. The Palestinian-drafted resolution was formally submitted to the 15-member council, which means it could be ...

[caption id="attachment_115878" align="alignright" width="149"] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives at Queen Alia Airport Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 in Amman, Jordan. Kerry is traveling to the mideast this week to discuss ways to bolster the stability of the new Iraqi government and combat the Islamic State militant group that has taken over ...

The chief Palestinian negotiator has signaled that Palestinian authorities are prepared to end nine months of negotiations with the Israeli regime if an agreement is not reached by an April 29 deadline. On Monday, chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat said, The negotiations are up on April 29. You dont need negotiations any more. You ...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday "to make the tough decisions that will be necessary" before an April 29 deadline for a peace deal with Israel, a U.S. official said. President Barack Obama meets Abbas on Monday, nearly two weeks after the U.S. leader sat down with Israeli Prime Minister ...

PresidentBarack Obamawill push to keep negotiations betweenIsraeland the Palestinians alive past an end-of-April deadline when he meets today at the White House with Palestinian Authority PresidentMahmoud Abbas. Palestinian resistance to a U.S. framework has been hardening, and clashes last week between Gaza militants and the Israeli military have ...

(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu said any peace deal with the Palestinians would take at least another year to negotiate should both sides accept U.S.-proposed principles to keep talks going. In anIsraelRadio interview broadcast on Sunday, Netanyahu reiterated that he regarded guidelines that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is drafting ...

(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the United States and other world powers on Tuesday not to allow Iran to retain the ability to enrich uranium, and urged Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state if they wanted peace. Addressing the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC a day after White House talks, Netanyahu avoided any explicit ...

Israel needs to make some " tough" decisions in order to move forward on peace talks with the Palestinians, U.S. President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. "The timeframe that we have set up for completing these negotiations is coming near and some tough decisions are going to have to be made," Obama said before ...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House tomorrow, President Barack Obama will tell him that his country could face a bleak future -- one of international isolation and demographic disaster -- if he refuses to endorse a U.S.-drafted framework agreement for peace with the Palestinians. Obama will warn Netanyahu that time ...

Obama, speaking to Bloomberg View, also made clear that he would press Netanyahu to allow him the time needed to test Iran's willingness to curb its nuclear ambitions, despite the Israeli leader's deep skepticism of the West's diplomatic engagement with Tehran. Saying the "the window is closing" for a peace deal betweenIsraeland the Palestinians, ...

Washington Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to resist "pressures" as he arrived in Washington for talks with US President Barack Obama on the peace process and Iran's nuclear program. When the two meet at the White House on Monday, their discussion will be crucial to determine whether Israel's negotiations with the Palestinians have a future beyond ...

[caption id="attachment_70312" align="alignright" width="180"] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah December 5, 2013.[/caption] The statements of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on reaching a permanent peace agreement with Israel are his own personal ideas, an Islamic ...

An Iranian diplomat argues that the repeated threats of war against Iran in the official US vernacular areharmful to delicate, ongoing nuclear negotiations and undermine the rule of international law. President Obama in his State of the Union address alluded to the availability of all options in dealing with Iran's nuclear program despite his expressed ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 3 (MNA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus administration has responded harshly to Secretary of State John Kerrys urgent call for a renewed Middle East peace effort Sunday, saying that Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with a gun to its head. The remarks by Israels minister of strategic affairs, Yuval Steinitz, came in response ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's warning against a growing boycott movement against the Jewish state should peace talks with the Palestinians fail, while some of his Cabinet ministers lashed out angrily, saying the stance undermined Israel's legitimacy and the chances ...

US Secretary of StateJohn Kerry on Saturday threatened Israel that a failure in the peace talks would lead to global boycotts and delegitimization of the Jewish state. The warning comes as no surprise to those familiar with reports earlier in the month, which revealed that Kerry isorchestrating the European boycottsagainst Israel. Deputy Defense Minister ...

For Secretary of State John F. Kerry, diplomacy has centered on what might be called the art of the interim deal. He has tackled two of the worlds toughest issues the Iranian nuclear program and the Israeli-Palestinian problem and has fashioned tentative formulas outlining the shape of a final accord, even though the parties are far from such comprehensive ...

Israels defense minister on Tuesday decried the interim deal reached by world powers with Iran in November and rejected the linkage between Irans quest for a nuclear weapon and Israels ongoing conflict with the Palestinians. Calling the notion of regional events revolving around the axis of the Israel-Palestinian conflict a fairy tale, Moshe Yaalonsaid ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted Wednesday as saying he is prepared to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at any time. The Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University also quoted Abbas as saying he does not rule out addressing the Knesset. I dont reject the idea and would be prepared to discuss ...