3 weeks ago - Zamir’s commitment to keep troops in Gaza appears to contradict the ceasefire agreement signed in October, which specifies that “Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza”. Trump’s 20-point plan commits the Israeli military to “progressively hand over” Palestinian territory to an international security force until they have “withdrawn completely from Gaza”, barring a small security perimeter by the border.

2 hours ago - And despite many flashy demonstrations of friendship — including Trump’s extraordinary call for Israel’s president to pardon Netanyahu amid corruption charges — the relationship between the men has, at moments, become strained over differences in how they view foreign policy in the region.

March 30, 2023 - But while the Mueller investigation was never able to conclusively demonstrate any collusion with Russia, the FBI did uncover hard evidence of extensive collusion between close Trump associates and the highest levels of the Israeli government. Common cause: Donald Trump speaking at a campaign press conference at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC in 2016.

"Donald Trump was heavily booed Thursday after refusing to say whether he recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. 'Can I at least try and pin you down on Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel?' an event organizer at the Republican Jewish Coalition's 2016 presidential forum asked ...

Trump rejected Obama's claim that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal and the main obstacle to peace. He was especially offended by a resolution initiated by Obama at the UN Security Council in December 2016, when Trump was already ...

April 14, 2021 - Shortly after he was elected as president in November 2016, Donald Trump quickly got to work on advancing his Israel policy. In fact, he might have focused more swiftly on this issue than any other. David Friedman, Trump’s personal bankruptcy lawyer, was the very first political appointee the president-elect chose to be US ambassador to Israel.

2 days ago - Residents of Somaliland took to the streets to celebrate on Friday after Israel became the first nation to recognize the breakaway region, as US President Donald Trump dampened expectations he could follow Jerusalem’s lead.

5 days ago - Mr. Novik was a policy adviser and special envoy for Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel. President Trump deserves credit for pushing to stabilize three Middle East flash points — Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Yet on all three fronts, the region’s most powerful player and ostensibly America’s closest ally, Israel, is undercutting Mr.

December 4, 2016 - As Obama’s presidency comes to an end, the status quo in 2016 has not significantly changed from 2008. It is impossible to prove that there was a real opportunity for peace when Obama took office in 2009, given Israeli security worries and Palestinian political paralysis. But if there was, the Obama administration threw it away by obsessing about one single issue: settlements. The Trump ...

December 7, 2017 - On Jerusalem, Trump had pledged during the 2016 campaign to recognize Israel's claim to the city and to move the American embassy there from Tel Aviv.

March 21, 2016 - Updated: March 21, 2016 8:58 PM [ET] | Originally published: March 21, 2016 6:56 PM EDT; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his party’s front runner for the nomination, addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Monday, discussing relations between the U.S.

November 25, 2025 - During the Nov. 18 meeting, Trump was the one who raised the issue and pressed hard MBS to join the Abraham Accords, U.S. officials say. The Abraham Accords, signed in 2020, normalized relations between Israel and several other Arab nations.

The White House is pleased to share President Trump’s Vision for a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

2 days ago - Israel and Hamas have not formally signed on to the second phase of the deal. It is supposed to see the establishment of a Palestinian technocratic government for the Strip, overseen by a Trump-led Board of Peace, as well as the deployment of an International Stabilization Force as the IDF’s presence in the Strip is phased out.

October 16, 2025 - Some of the most astute writers and commentators who have weighed in on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire/hostage release/end of war issue that is on every media outlet’s front burner today and for the last few weeks is dead wrong about what they say is the foolish, dangerous, misguided, cave-to-the-terrorists, endanger Israel, empower-our-enemies choice that President Donald Trump and his negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have made in this delicate process.

3 weeks ago - During the 2016 US Presidential election, one of Trump's campaign promises was to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which he described as the "eternal capital of the Jewish people."

8 hours ago - Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida has become a center of global diplomacy, with high-stakes talks Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to follow Monday.

3 weeks ago - Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the prime minister of Qatar and a key mediator, said over the weekend that the ceasefire is at a critical point, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to travel to the White House this month to discuss the next steps. Here is a closer look at the next stages of the ceasefire and the potential pitfalls. Trumps plan calls for the formation of an international force — known as International Stabilization Force — to maintain security and train Palestinian police to one day to take over.