Palestinian state

First 1,400 housing units to be marketed in controversial E1 area of West Bank

The E1 plan has drawn criticism over concerns that construction could disrupt Palestinian territorial continuity and make statehood more difficult.

Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025.
REAL PRIORITY: The PLO’s original charter demanded the whole of Israel.

Why is there no Palestinian state? The answer lies in decades of failed opportunities - opinion

Slovenia's Prime Minister Janez Jansa arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 18, 2026.

Israel praises Slovenia for moving embassy to Jerusalem, revoking Palestinian State recognition

The Mayor of Paris upon the granting of honorary citizenship to Palestinians, June 18, 2026.

Paris mayor grants city honor to civilians of Gaza, West Bank


Seal the deal: How to cease the fire without chaos - editorial

US President Donald Trump's newly proposed Gaza deal has the potential to bring the hostages home and end the war without restoring Hamas rule.

Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip September 27, 2025.

Flotilla says drone activity increases, Hamas leaning towards accepting Trump peace plan

Gazan women say Palestinian men, UNRWA exploiting them • IAF destroys terror targets overnight • Houthis claim responsibility for attack on Dutch-flagged ship

Israeli armored personnel carriers (APC) manoeuvre on Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, in Israel, September 30, 2025.

Smotrich sets 'red lines' for ceasefire: Hamas withdrawal, no Palestinian state

Finance Minister Smotrich also confirmed that his red lines include the IDF remaining in certain perimeter areas of the Gaza Strip, as well as complete disarmament and withdrawal of Hamas.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a committee meeting on September 14, 2025.

Accentuating the positive: Mahmoud Abbas's UN address - opinion

Abbas discussed the Palestinian Authority’s reform agenda, which Western officials say can show whether the PA could oversee genuine statehood.

UK PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer hosts PA head Mahmoud Abbas at 10 Downing Street earlier this month. According to the last major poll of Palestinian opinion, about 81% of all Palestinians want Abbas to resign, notes the writer.

The two-state solution is not antisemitic - opinion

Most Israelis perceive recognition of Palestine as a threat to their state’s existence, but it is far-fetched to conclude that it is antisemitic.

IT IS FARFETCHED to conclude that leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are antisemites, the writer argues.

Palestinian sovereignty and international law: Limits of UN recognition - opinion

Among other things, if current UN member states seek to establish the first Palestinian state, they will have to honor all listed expectations of the Montevideo (1933) and Vienna (1969) conventions.

RIYAD MANSOUR, the Palestinian permanent observer to the UN, speaks after the General Assembly voted to endorse a declaration on a two-state solution earlier this month. Israel has no legal obligation to carve a new enemy state, the writer states.

Masterpiece of optics: The walkout of Netanyahu's speech is an orchestration of emptiness - opinion

It was not a plan; it was punctuation. It did not change the sentence; it changed the emphasis. And emphasis, in our age of clip and caption, is not nothing.

DELEGATES WALK OUT before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly on Friday. Delegations from across the Arab and Muslim worlds, a sprinkling of Africans, and some Europeans rose and left, the writer notes.

While the world distorts, the Balkans remember: Dr. Zuroff’s legacy honored - opinion

As Israel faces false genocide claims, the Balkans honor Dr. Zuroff’s decades-long mission to preserve Holocaust truth and confront historical revisionism.

 (Illustrative) EFRAIM ZUROFF, former director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office, watches a procession commemorating the Latvian Waffen SS unit, also known as the Legionnaires, in Riga in 2010.

Trump's hostage deal proposal includes amnesty for terrorists, Palestinian state talks - report

The proposal's main point would be the release of all 48 remaining hostages within the first 48 hours of the deal taking effect.

Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip September 27, 2025.

Gantz: Palestinian recognition is not against Netanyahu, but against Israel's bipartisan consensus

Blue and White head Benny Gantz warns in NYT op-ed that recognizing a Palestinian state now risks Israel’s security and rewards PA failure.

Head of Blue and White party MK Benny Gantz speaks during press conference in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2025.