U.S. ambassador to Israel angers Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ by calling Israel's West Bank settlement policy as having a double legal standard on the same day an Israeli mother was killed by a Palestinian terrorist.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that his country will be suspending its peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority and will consider reviving the talks when Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas abandons the unity deal it has struck with Hamas.
A political expert warns the diplomatic implications of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)'s Fatah party reaching an accord with a branded terrorist Hamas in the middle of the Western Asian regional government's peace negotiations with Israel.
The peace talks between Israel and Palestine has been threatened yet again when Israel told Palestinian negotiators in an all-night meeting that it will not proceed to release the remaining long-serving Palestinian inmates as the latter had taken steps to get recognition from the United Nations, unnamed officials close to the talks told The Washington Post.
