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US Energy Secretary Chris Wright gives a media briefing in Riyadh on Sunday.

Israel-Saudi normalization has been sidelined in favor of more realistic progress

By TEHILA WENGER

France's President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference at the 19th Summit of the Francophonie at the Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 5, 2024.

Macron says France could recognize Palestinian state in June

YASSER ARAFAT reaches to shake hands with Yitzhak Rabin, as Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles, at the White House on September 13, 1993.

Israel has compromised for peace – why haven’t the Palestinians?

By URI PILICHOWSKI

PALESTINIAN OBSERVER to the UN Riyad Mansour speaks to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, at UN headquarters in New York City, earlier this month. A Palestinian state in the West Bank would pose an immediate and severe security threat to Israel, state

Is a Palestinian state a vision or an illusion?

By David Ben-Basat

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Right)

Saudi Arabia rejects PM Netanyahu's remarks on displacing Palestinians

By REUTERS

Palestinians walk past the rubble of houses and buildings destroyed during the war, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 20, 2025.

Gaza’s future hinges on reuniting under PLO, launching real reconstruction

By Azzam Abdul Karim Rushdi Al Shawa/The Media Line

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY head Mahmoud Abbas meets with then-US secretary of state John Kerry at Abbas’s residence in Amman in 2016. Palestinianism is an ideology and an identity invented by the KGB and advanced by Abbas ever since he rejected Kerry’s 2014 peace initiative, the writer argues.

Palestinianism is violence against Jewish indigenousness in Israel

By DAVID M. WEINBERG

Palestinians take part in a protest in support of prisoners held in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Hebron on December 1, 2024

Resolution 1701: Israel's scam to withdraw from Lebanon that it blamed on the UN

By Anjuli Pandavar

(Illustrative) Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar over a back drop of an Irish and Palestinian flag.

FM Sa'ar decides to close Ireland embassy over 'antisemitic actions, rhetoric'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Dr. Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, sits for a portrait at the Wall Street Hotel, New York, Sept. 4, 2024.

Massad Boulos, Trump’s new Middle East adviser, touts roadmap to Palestinian state

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

US President-elect Donald Trump with Massad Boulos during a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan, US, on November 1

Trump admin. to prioritize hostages, Iran deal, says new Middle East adviser

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THEN-PALESTINIAN Authority head and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat gestures during a speech in Ramallah, 2004.

Yasser Arafat’s legacy: The death of Palestinian statehood

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia Penny Wong addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, September 27, 2024.

Australia takes anti-Israel stand, approves a Palestinian sovereignty text

By TOVAH LAZAROFF , Mathilda Heller

Israeli police officers and a soldier stand guard, in the area near Allenby Bridge Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, September 8, 2024.

Two-state solution support rises in West Bank, Gaza, Arab-American communities

By Maya Gur Arieh

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY head Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly last month. The PA has actively supported and incentivized Palestinian terrorism, the writer charges.

Supporting Palestinians has turned into normalizing terrorism

By ALIZA PILICHOWSKI

President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum gestures during a celebration after Clara Brugada received the certificate of majority that accredits her as mayor-elect of Mexico City, in Mexico June 8, 2024.

Mexico calls for recognition of Palestinian state amid war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JEWISH VOICE For Peace members and supporters hold a rally outside the Zeckelman Memorial Holocaust Museum in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Why can’t Jews defend themselves and Palestinians? The matter of Jewish fragility

By Ariel Roth , ISABEL ROTH

PA President Mahmoud Abbas meets with then-Armenian president Armen Sarkissian in Bethlehem, in 2019. At a time like this, Armenia recognizing Palestine is a victory for terrorism, the writer maintains.

Armenia recognizes the State of Palestine

By MORDECHAI KEDAR