Albert Einstein once revealed the secret of his genius: “Simplify as much as possible – but not more so.” His famous equation E=mc2, linked mass and energy in a manner that changed the world. He discovered it by starting with a complex equation and striking out everything that was not essential. Simplify! Presto! Mass … Read more
The United States said on Wednesday that establishing an independent Palestinian state should happen through direct negotiations between the parties and not at the United Nations. The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday asked for renewed consideration of a 2011 application to become a full member of the United Nations. It currently has de facto recognition … Read more
What will happen in Gaza “the day after?” Yisrael Beiteinu chairman and MK Avigdor Liberman posed this question during budget debates in the Knesset plenum on Wednesday. He claimed he “heard from an old friend in Washington” that war cabinet member and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer had made a commitment to Saudi Arabia … Read more
An anonymous Saudi Arabian official told Al-Arabiya on Tuesday that the only possible route for Saudi to establish ties with Israel is through the establishment of Palestinian statehood. “We don’t have a partner on the other side that is helping us to make this step,” the official said while claiming that normalization with Israel … Read more
US, European, and Middle Eastern officials have been sending out messages recently suggesting that there may be a path to establish a Palestinian state as part of a larger peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was among … Read more
An initiative by the US administration to end Israel’s conflict with Hamas by forming a Palestinian state provides a “tailwind for terrorists,” Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu of the far-right Otmza Yehudit Party said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Rather than “award” the Palestinians a state, Hamas must come “crawling and … Read more
A plan to hold a largely declaratory vote in Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) against international unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state was canceled on Monday after the opposition party Yisrael Beytenu proposed a more hawkish declaration to oppose Palestinian statehood under any condition. The cancellation was an indication of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sensitivity … Read more
Israel must recognize a Palestinian state at the pre-1967 lines in order to normalize ties with Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that appeared to douse US President Joe Biden’s hope for a trilateral deal between Washington, Riyadh, and Jerusalem this year. “The Kingdom has communicated its firm position to … Read more
