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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem on Tuesday, vowing to do “everything I can” to broker peace between Israel and Palestine — without specifying any actual plans.
Speaking after the meeting, Mr Trump echoed many of his predecessors saying that the solution to the 50-year Israeli occupation could “begin a process of peace all throughout the Middle East.”
Mr Abbas said Palestinians “are committed to working with [Mr Trump] to reach a historic peace deal between us and Israel.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
The plot to build a lavish Dubai-style luxury development where the rich can sun themselves on top of the mass graves of thousands is one of the most bizarre and twisted ideas to come out of the genocide in Gaza, writes ROGER McKENZIE