Trump's Jerusalem decision opens Israeli expansionism floodgates - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab

Jan 4, 2018

Israeli soldiers run during clashes with Palestinians at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem December 20, 2017. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma - RC1EB70CAD30 — Israeli soldiers run during clashes with Palestinians at a protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec. 20, 2017. — REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

Palestinians outraged at Jewish nation-state law

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lights a Hanukkah candle at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, December 22, 2019. Sebastian Scheiner/Pool via REUTERS - RC2I0E9514H5

Netanyahu panics, slams ICC prosecutor

Akiva Eldar

Retired Israeli General Benny Gantz, one of the leaders of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) political alliance, visits the Jordan Valley site of Naharayim, also known as Baqura in Jordan, east of the Jordan river and which has been leased to Israel as part of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, on October 18, 2019. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)

Arab party reconsiders support of Gantz over Jordan Valley annexation

Shlomi Eldar

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) prays at the start of a meeting for the Central Council of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 4, 2015. Palestinian leaders began a two-day meeting on Wednesday at which they could decide to suspend security coordination with Israel, a move that would have a profound impact on stability in the occupied West Bank. Relations between the two sides have grown dangerously brittle since the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks

Palestinian focus on isolating Israel, continuing ICC efforts

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics