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Jordan urges Pence to rebuild trust after Jerusalem pivot

Amman - Al Maghrib Today

Jordan’s king appealed Sunday to US Vice President Mike Pence to “rebuild trust and confidence” in the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following fallout from the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Pence, in turn, tried to reassure the monarch that the Trump administration remains committed to restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and viewsRead more

Netanyahu: US embassy could move

Jerusalem - Al Maghrib Today

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he’s certain that the U.S. Embassy will be moved to Jerusalem in the coming year, much sooner than Trump administration officials have estimated. Netanyahu told Israeli reporters traveling with him in India on Wednesday his “solid assessment” is that the American Embassy “will be moved far faster than what we think … in the course ofRead more

General Assembly refuses Trump's decision over Jerusalem

Quds - Nasser Al Assad

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday approved a resolution banning a change in the “character, status or demographic composition of the city of Jerusalem”, in a clear rejection of US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize the city as the capital of Israel, despite his administration’s threats to punish countries voting against his decision. The decision came asRead more

Palestinian president rebukes Trump’s decision over Jerusalem

Washington - Adel Salama

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday, the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was the “greatest crime” and a flagrant violation of international law. “Jerusalem is and always will be the capital of Palestine,” he told an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders in Turkey. He said the United States was giving away Jerusalem asRead more

Netanyahu 'not impressed' by Muslim leaders' Jerusalem

Istanbul - Al Maghrib Today

'Islamic leaders on Wednesday urged world powers to recognise occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of the "State of Palestine", as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas warned that the United States no longer had a role to play in the peace process. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened an emergency summit of the world's main pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Istanbul,Read more

Sisi meets with Palestinian president in Cairo on Monday

Cairo - Saeed Ghamrawy

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi invited his Palestinian counterpart President Mahmoud Abbas to hold a consultative bilateral summit in Cairo on Monday, Presidency spokesperson Bassam Radi said on Sunday. The summit is scheduled to tackle developments of the latest decision of the U.S President Donald Trump of recognizing the Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It also will discuss meansRead more

Palestinian factions say U.S decision could lead to uprising

Gaza - Moneib Saada

A U.S. move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital would mean the end of President Donald Trump's peace efforts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a senior Palestinian official warned Tuesday. Palestinian political factions, meanwhile, called for demonstrations against any such announcement. Continuing his diplomatic offensive against the move, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron by phone on the issueRead more

Palestinian President arrived in Riyadh to start visit to Saudi

Quds - Nasser Al Assad

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to arrive in Riyadh, the capital of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Monday on an official visit. Abbas is scheduled to meet with Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, according to the Palestinian Ambassador in Riyadh Bassam Al-Agha. He said in statements to the official Palestinian radio station VoiceRead more

Al-Fetani stresses Fatah’s commitment

Gaza - Moneib Saada

Secretary of the Revolutionary Council of the Palestinian Movement Fatah Majid al-Fetani revealed that Fatah leaders and President Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazen, took an irrevocable decision on Palestinian national reconciliation, saying that reconciliation is a strategic and national option and a lever for the Palestinian national project. He praised the political will of both Fatah and Hamas, saying that theRead more

Palestinians will discuss decline of aids

Gaza - Nasser Al-Assad

Director General of Palestinian Liberation Front Wasel Abu Yusef said that there are many arrangements for the holding of the Palestinian National Council, through consultations involving all factions, saying that the meeting comes in the framework of preparations for the meeting of Palestinian National Council. He said, in an interview with “Arabs Today”, that reduction of US aid to theRead more