Palestinian statehood

Israeli faith in lasting peace with Palestinians at lowest in over a decade - poll

Israeli faith in lasting peace with Palestinians and the possibility of a two-state solution is at the lowest since 2013, a Pew poll shows.

Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook Dome of Rock and Western Wall
 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference in Jerusalem last month. His conduct at a certain stage in the war seemed to derive directly from the ultimatum of the extreme right-wing parties to continue the fighting at all costs, says the writer.

Everyone is paying the price for Netanyahu's obsession with power - opinion

 French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during an inauguration of a France Services house in Wallers, France, June 3, 2025.

French senior official: June conference not centered on recognizing Palestinian state

 Flags of Spain, Norway and Ireland seen as Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the United Nations.

European calls for Palestinian statehood isn't principled diplomacy, it's panic - opinion


Macron's 'recognition' of a Palestinian state is a way to punish Israel - opinion

Instead of pushback against the increasingly genocidal Palestinian national movement, we get more perilous pablum about the “urgency” of Palestinian statehood.

 FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron visits Vietnam this week. The scent coming from Macron and his ilk is antipathy toward Israel; they simply cannot stomach a strong Israel, the writer charges.

Indonesia could recognize Israel if Palestinians given independence, president says

Standing alongside visiting French President Emmanuel Macron, Prabowo said Israel's security needs to be guaranteed.

 Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto speaks during a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 28, 2025.

The 'fig leaf' that hid Arab regime failures and seriously harmed the Palestinian cause - opinion

Post-1948, Arab regimes weaponized the Palestinian cause. Lacking organic legitimacy, they turned anti-Israel hostility into a survival mechanism.

 Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, sits in the General Assembly. The State of Palestine is recognized by more than 130 countries, but not by most of the countries of the OECD.

Palestinian state? Iran nuclear deal? What will Trump's Middle East visit mean?

On episode five of The Jerusalem Dispatch, Elliot Jager and Calev Ben David discuss the upcoming Middle East conference, the Pulitzer Prize Committee, Pope Leo XIII’s namesake, and more.

 Calev Ben-David (R) speaks to Elliot Jager (L) in the Jerusalem Post podcast studio.

Gulf diplomatic sources debate if Trump will announce US recognition of Palestinian state

Saudi Arabia will host a Gulf-US summit in mid-May during Trump’s Mideast visit. Speculation swirls over a major announcement on a Palestinian state, and peaceful US-Saudi nuclear cooperation

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House.

Gantz: Idea of creating a Palestinian state 'disconnected from reality'

Gantz said Israel “cannot allow a direct and significant threat to its citizens on any border,” and insisted the country must retain security control and operational freedom in Gaza.

 National Unity Party Chairman Benny Gantz at the Makor Rishon Settlement Conference in Ofra, May 6, 2025.

Almost all Canadian candidates who signed pro-Palestinian pledge lost

Only 10% of the incoming Liberal Party MPs endorsed the platform, which called for a two-way arms embargo against Israel, and Canadian recognition of a Palestinian state.

PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters demonstrate outside the Liberal Party of Canada holiday party in Ottawa in December. There are people in this world, even among the educated elite, who hate Jews so much that they can justify any act, no matter how cruel, against Jews and Israel, the writer asserts.

Israel-Saudi normalization has been sidelined in favor of Saudi, Iran nuclear agreements - opinion

The further Israel sinks into its one-state reality, the more irrelevant we become in key geopolitical considerations and regional diplomacy.

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

Macron says France could recognize Palestinian state in June

French President said that France could recognize a Palestinian state in June, adding that in turn some countries in the Middle East could recognize Israel.

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

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

The world pushes Israel to decide on Palestinians, but what about Palestinian decisions on Israel?

 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.

Why a Palestinian state is a security risk Israel cannot afford - opinion

A Palestinian state is not the solution – it is a security risk Israel cannot afford to take. 

 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