Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak suggested that Israel would be allowed to build 8,000 new homes in Judea and Samaria, and in exchange Israel would release 500 Fatah terrorists from prison and recognise pre-1967 borders.
According to Mubarak, Israel would also remove unauthorised outposts and additional security checkpoints, and more, Arutz 7 reports.
The plan is to be presented to the US Government, and if it is approved by Washington, it will be the basis of a summit …

United States told the European Union in the light of the latter’s efforts to divide Jerusalem and have it declared the capital of a future Arab state that Jerusalem is a “final-status issue” and “it is best addressed inside a formal negotiation among the parties directly”.
Assistant Secretary of State PJ Crowley said yesterday that all parties have differing views “on the emotional and complex issues that are at the heart of this challenge”, but he …

The Office for Israeli Constitutional Law, a non-governmental legal action organization, sent a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, warning that by labeling Jewish towns and villages in Judea and Samaria illegal she is violating international law.
The little-known Anglo-American Convention, a treaty signed by the US and British governments in 1924, stipulated that the US fully accepted upon itself the Mandate for Palestine, which declared all of Judea and Samaria within …

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today announced a ten-month freeze on building Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, after the security cabinet approved the plan, and said the move was a “far-reaching and painful step”, the Jerusalem Post reports.
“We authorize it from a deep desire to move forward toward peace,” he said, adding that Israel hoped it would lead to “meaningful negotiations” toward a “historic peace agreement” with the Arabs.
Concerning Israel’s capital Jerusalem, Netanyahu said …

Former Alaska Governor and last year’s Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said in an interview with ABC News that US President Barack Obama has no right to tell Israel that the Jewish villages in Judea and Samaria cannot expand.
“I disagree with the Obama administration on that,” Palin said. “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow.”
“More and more Jewish …

Israeli Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) said that if the Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria unilaterally declare a new Arab state, Israel may annex parts of Judea and Samaria – especially the parts where Jewish villages and towns are located.
Unlike Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria are not annexed by Israel, but remain under military rule. All Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria have the same basic rights as other Israelis.
“If the …

The election of Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria that was supposed to take place on 20th January will be postponed.
The independent Central Election Commission, responsible for organizing elections, confirmed today that they had recommended postponing the vote, Ha’aretz reports. “We met today and we decided to tell the president, who called these elections, that we cannot have elections at the time he scheduled them,” Hana Nasir, the head of the Central …

The Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria announced yesterday their intention to consider a formal abandonment of the Middle East peace process and dissolving the “Palestinian Authority”.
Officials in Judea and Samaria told The Daily Telegraph that the most important Arab decision making bodies were preparing to meet to discuss a proposal to dissolve the “Palestinian Authority”. Such a move would signal the end of Arab self-government in Judea and Samaria, set out by the now defunct …

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claims that Israeli Government offered to end all settlement activity in Judea and Samaria, Arutz 7 reports.
Clinton claimed that Binyamin Netanyahu’s Government “would end permits, it would end approvals, it would end expropriation of land”.
“It is not at all everything we would want, but for that Government to do anything is unprecedented,” Clinton said.
Clinton repeated her call for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to resume talks with no pre-conditions …

European Union funded an illegal construction in Judea, next to Givat Ha’harsina, a suburb of the Jewish city of Kiryat Arba; Israeli Government had the construction demolished today.
Israel’s Civil Lands Administration operated against illegal construction in Kfar Sa’ir and demolished it. The pools and terraces were independently built without permits and operating under sponsorship from the European Union, Arutz 7 reports.
The construction, which encroached upon an area that was included within the municipal boundaries of Kiryat Arba, …

A religious Israeli agreed to hide a gay Arab in his village, because the residents of the Arab village the man is from, threaten to kill him.
The Arab man lives with his partner in Israel. But after he visited his parents in Judea-Samaria, he was not allowed back into Israel. However, the residents of his village threatened to kill him, and thus the religious Jewish Israeli agreed to help him and hide him in his …

Former professor, current writer and journalist Moshe Dann says that Israel should annex Judea and Samaria, as that would be the only viable road map to peace and stability.
Dann says in his article on Ynet that Judea and Samaria rightfully belong to the Jewish people and this is “not a matter to be decided by the US, EU, or UN”.
“Sacrificing some communities in order to save others, amputating hilltops and settlements to assuage Arabs and …

Leader of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria, Mahmoud Abbas reportedly told the US President Barack Obama that he would not run for re-election unless Israel froze the expansion of Jewish villages.
“Abu Mazen (Abbas) told him that he would not be a candidate in the presidential election (in January) unless Israel abided by the peace requirement,” an official said, according to Reuters.
However, other Arab officials voiced doubt Abbas would carry out his threat, saying he …

Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said that Israel’s current opposition leader, then-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria not to accept the peace offering by then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who had offered Arab leader Mahmoud Abbas 95-98% of the territories for a “Palestinian” state.
Indyk said that “the Prime Minister was about to have an indictment filed against him and the Foreign Minister herself specifically told both the Americans …

US President Barack Obama will host a meeting Tuesday with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and “Palestinian Authority” leader Mahmoud Abbas, in an effort to lay the groundwork for renewed peace negotiations, the Jerusalem Post reports.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the three-way meeting would take place after Obama meets separately with each of the two leaders.
But the meeting between will not serve as a preparation for negotiations and not constitute renewal of negotiations …

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee yesterday that the proposed freeze on building for Jews in Judea and Samaria is temporary, although he didn’t mention how long will it last, explaining that no agreement has been reached with the US government on the length of the freeze, Arutz 7 reports.
He said he is stopping most construction in order to set in motion a resumption of talks between the Arab …