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Former US Ambassador to Israel authors response to two-state proposal

David Friedman to release book entitled “One Jewish State”.

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

David Friedman, Mike Pence and Zvika Klein at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference 2024.(photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem)

“It’s the response to the post-October 7 argument that the two-state solution is still viable,” said David Friedman, describing his forthcoming book, “One Jewish State.” Friedman was interviewed by Jerusalem Post Editor-in-chief Zvika Klein at the Jerusalem Post Conference on Monday, where he discussed the book and his strategy for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

‘Future of Judea & Samaria’: Former US envoy unveils sovereignty plan

Former Ambassador David Friedman's proposal "protects Israel's security, respects biblical covenants and affords civil rights and human dignity to all."

ALEX TRAIMAN

Israel suffered the worst massacre in its history on Oct. 7, at the hands of Hamas—an Iranian terror proxy that was voted into power and continues to be supported by the majority of Palestinians in Gaza. The attack proved longstanding Israeli fears that any independent Palestinian entity without overriding Israeli security control would become a staging ground for barbaric terrorism against the Jewish state.

And now, as Israel fights to permanently remove Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization, from the Gaza Strip, key members of the international community, including the United States and the United Kingdom, are doubling down on calls for the creation of a

EE. UU. dejará de cooperar en ciencia y tecnología con entidades israelíes en Judea y Samaria, Altos del Golán y Jerusalén Este

EE. UU. le dijo a Israel que cesará la cooperación científica y tecnológica con entidades en Judea y Samaria (Cisjordania), los Altos del Golán y Jerusalén Este, volviendo a una política de larga data que se había revertido bajo Donald Trump, informó The Times of Israel.

La cadena Kan dijo que la medida es un regreso a la directiva de que no habría cooperación científica y tecnológica en las áreas definidas por un funcionario anónimo del Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. como más allá de la Línea Verde de 1967 y “que siguen sujetas a negociaciones sobre su estado permanente”.

La política se revirtió brevemente bajo Trump, cuando el primer ministro Benjamín Netanyahu y el entonces embajador de los EE. UU., David Friedman, firmaron un acuerdo que eliminaba todas las restricciones geográficas anteriores de la cooperación científica de los dos países.

In book, Kushner says Netanyahu was unenthusiastic on Jerusalem recognition

In upcoming memoir, former US President’s son-in-law said to claim Trump considered nixing the move given the PM’s cool response.

By MICHAEL HOROVITZ

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference at the prime minister's Jerusalem residence on December 21, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior advisor to former US president Donald Trump, reveals in an upcoming book that when Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy there in 2017, then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction was decidedly tepid.

The book, “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” is set to be published on August 23 but was posted on a Saudi website earlier this week and reveals Netanyahu’s cool response almost sabotaged the plan.

Ambassador David Friedman: Israel must ‘grow up’ and decide its eastern border

“Ultimately, without the application of sovereignty, at least in portions of Judea and Samaria, they’ll never be a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he told JNS.

BY DAVID ISAAC

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman gives the keynote speech at the Conservatism Conference in Jerusalem on May 26, 2022. Photo by David Isaac.

(May 26, 2022 / JNS) Israel and Israel alone can make decisions fateful to its future, and it can start with reaching clarity about its eastern border, said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the second Israeli Conservatism Conference, which took place in Jerusalem on Thursday.

Israel should base its policies “upon a national consensus as to what is in its best interest” and then defend that policy “without condition or apology,” he said.

Mike Pompeo and David Friedman making Bible film on Route 60

The documentary produced by filmmaker and TBN president Matt Crouch sets out a “challenge to the viewer,” Friedman said, adding that “this is where the Bible happened, and it’s still here.”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman and former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo shoot a section of their new film in Jerusalem.

(photo credit: Caylan Crouch, TBN)

On a normal day, cars travel down a highway that runs through the land of Abraham and Jesus.

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former ambassador to Israel David Friedman want to teach Christians and Jews about the places where Ruth wept

In new book, Kushner claims envoy Friedman went rogue to okay West Bank annexation

Top Trump aide says ‘my knuckles turned white’ as Netanyahu used peace plan rollout to promise sovereignty in settlements and Jordan Valley, did so thanks to Friedman’s assurances.

By JACOB MAGID

Then-US president Donald Trump, center, is flanked by then-ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, and then-senior adviser Jared Kushner in the Oval Office on August 12, 2020. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman went rogue when he told then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Trump administration would back plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, ex-White House senior adviser Jared Kushner maintains in a new book slated to be published later this month.

Trump wanted to scrap peace plan unless Abbas approved - Kushner

Trump only wanted to proceed with Abbas’s approval even though Kushner explained that the logic of the deal was “heads you win, tails they lose.”

By LAHAV HARKOV

Jared Kushner attends the funeral for Ivana Trump, socialite and first wife of former US President Donald Trump, in New York City, US, July 20, 2022.

(photo credit: REUTERS/JEENAH MOON)

Former US president Donald Trump nearly shelved his peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians at the last minute because the latter did not support it, contrary to what was presented as the plan’s unique logic, former White House senior advisor Jared Kushner wrote in a book set to be published later this month.

Kushner and then-ambassador to Israel David Friedman walked Trump through the parts of the plan and their expected reactions to it for over an hour. Kushner

Sledgehammer review: David Friedman comes out swinging on Trump and Israel

The former US ambassador has written a predictably unsubtle memoir, aimed squarely at the 2024 Republican primary.

Lloyd Green

David Friedman, Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump leave bankruptcy court in Camden, New Jersey, in February 2010. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

David Friedman was Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel. But that job title alone fails to adequately convey his proximity to the 45th president and his impact on US policy. Their time together marked a repudiation of Barack Obama’s vision for the Middle East. Sledgehammer, Friedman’s memoir, reminds the reader of all of this as insistently as its title suggests.

With Friedman’s assistance, the US helped forge the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and four Arab countries. The US also moved its embassy to Jerusalem and left the Iran nuclear deal. As for the Palestinians, put it this way: they no longer occupy rent-free space in the Republican conscience.

‘What the hell was that?’: Netanyahu annexation announcement caught Trump off guard

Book tells of Jared Kushner’s fury at Israeli PM’s unexpected declaration, an exasperated Trump snapping, ‘If you want to do it, do it,’ and Netanyahu’s cold feet before UAE deal.

By TOI STAFF

Then-US president Donald Trump, right, looks over to then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020, at which Trump unveiled his 'Peace to Prosperity' vision for an Israeli-Palestinian accord. (AP/Susan Walsh)

In January 2020, during a festive White House unveiling of Donald Trump’s long-gestating peace plan, then-Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu giddily announced that under its auspices, Israel would move to immediately annex large

Former Ambassador David Friedman: ‘Trump administration would have given Israel free reign to defend itself’

He tells JNS: “Opening another consulate or mission for Palestinians in Jerusalem would violate the Jerusalem Embassy Act.”

BY ALEX TRAIMAN

(May 27, 2021 / Jerusalem / JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was dispatched to Israel by U.S. President Joe Biden this week in the direct aftermath of an acute conflagration highlighted by 11 days of indiscriminate rocket attacks by Hamas on Israeli population centers and pinpoint Israeli airstrikes on Hamas installations in Gaza in retaliation.

Blinken attempted to apply significant pressure on Israel behind closed doors in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while diplomatic relations

Pompeo: EE. UU. etiquetará productos de Judea y Samaria como “Hecho en Israel”

El gobierno de EE. UU. permitirá que los productos manufacturados en los asentamientos israelíes de Judea y Samaria (Cisjordania) se etiqueten con la etiqueta de que están hechos en Israel, anunció este jueves el secretario de Estado norteamericano, Mike Pompeo.

“Hoy, el Departamento de Estado está iniciando nuevas directrices para garantizar que las marcas del país de origen para los bienes israelíes y palestinos sean coherentes con nuestro enfoque de política exterior basado en la realidad”, dijo Pompeo en un comunicado emitido este jueves.

“De acuerdo con este anuncio, todos los productores dentro de las áreas donde Israel ejerce las autoridades pertinentes, especialmente el Área C bajo los Acuerdos de Oslo, deberán marcar productos como ‘Israel‘, ‘Producto de Israel‘

Kushner: Trump’s Jerusalem recognition led to ‘explosion of peace’ in region

White House senior adviser links president’s recognition of capital to subsequent normalization deals, recalling and dismissing criticism that move would inflame tensions.

By JACOB MAGID

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner after planting an olive tree at the Jerusalem Grove of Nations on December 21, 2020. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Monday that US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital yielded an “explosion of peace” in the region.

“It turns out Jerusalem is not the cause of the problem — it is the core of the solution,” Kushner said at a tree-planting ceremony in the capital’s Grove of Nations.

The US quietly makes major shift on Israel-Palestine policy

Photo: Zvonimir Atletic via shutterstock.com

When the United Arab Emirates announced its intention to normalize relations with Israel, they justified the decision — which was highly unpopular in the Arab world — in part by claiming that in exchange for normalization, Israel had agreed to shelve their plans to annex much of the territory of the West Bank. Critics argued that annexation was an ongoing process, and that settlement expansion and incorporation of that infrastructure into Israel was continuing, so it wasn’t much of a concession on Israel’s part.

This week, the United States and Israel proved those critics correct when they announced revisions to agreements governing scientific cooperation.

Embajador de Estados Unidos: Irán reza 5 veces al día pidiendo que Trump pierda

David Friedman. Foto: Tasos Katopodis / Getty images

El embajador de EE.UU. en Israel, David Friedman, dijo el miércoles que Irán “reza 5 veces al día” para que Trump pierda las elecciones.

Hablando con el editor en jefe de Israel Hayom, Boaz Bismuth, durante la conferencia digital organizada por el Foro de Shiloh, el Foro de Kohelet e Israel Hayom, Friedman afirmó que “Si nos sentimos lo suficientemente honrados para tener un segundo mandato, las oportunidades son enormes”.

“Mira, ¿cuál es la estrategia de Irán? Reza 5 veces al día para que Trump pierda. Porque saben que si Trump gana no tienen una estrategia de salida de la presión que les hemos puesto para no terminar con su actividad maligna”.

Estados Unidos solicita postergar la anexión en el Valle del Jordán y asentamientos de Judea y Samaria

El primer ministro Benjamín Netanyahu junto al asesor de la Casa Blanca, Jared Kushner. Foto: Embajada de Estados Unidos en Jerusalén/Matty Stern. Vía Reuters.

A pesar de que el comité de mapeo no ha suspendido por completo su trabajo debido a COVID-19, los funcionarios reconocen que el trabajo preparatorio para definir el territorio exacto que Israel podría anexarse el 1 de julio se ha retrasado debido a la pandemia.

Por un lado, el comité de mapeo, cuya tarea es delinear las fronteras exactas del área a la que Israel aplicaría la soberanía, requiere realizar un trabajo minucioso en el terreno, lo que no ha sido posible debido a las medidas de confinamiento. Y por otro, está el hecho de que los funcionarios de la Casa Blanca a cargo del archivo de anexión, el asesor principal del presidente Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, y el enviado especial para el proceso de paz, Avi Berkowitz, no han

Netanyahu urges doubtful settler chiefs to get behind ‘historic’ West Bank plan

In meeting with settlement mayors who oppose Trump plan’s Palestinian state, PM says he’s committed to talks with PA based on proposal, hails ‘opportunity’ to carry out annexation.

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) meets with settler leaders in his office on February 25, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/File)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told recalcitrant settler leaders Tuesday they should get behind the “historic opportunity” to annex parts of the West Bank under the Trump administration’s peace plan.

Netanyahu also said he is committed to negotiating with the Palestinians on the basis of the US proposal, his office said.

Netanyahu: Palestinians in Israeli-annexed Jordan Valley won’t get citizenship

In interviews, PM also rebuffs settler complaints, saying his annexation plan won’t mention Palestinian state, any settlement freeze will also apply to Palestinians in Area C.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. left, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, center, and Tourism Minister Yariv Levin during a meeting to discuss mapping extension of Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, held in the Ariel settlement, February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview Thursday that Palestinians living under Israeli rule in an annexed Jordan Valley would not receive Israeli citizenship.

Palestinian towns and villages in the area will remain “Palestinian enclaves” under Palestinian rule but Israel security control, he explained.

Autoridad Palestina amenaza con denunciar a EE. UU. si respalda soberanía de Israel en Judea y Samaria

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La Autoridad Palestina anunció que tiene la intención de presentar una demanda contra los Estados Unidos por apoyar los planes de Israel de ejercer su soberanía sobre partes de Judea y Samaria.

“Estamos buscando mecanismos legales para hacer responsable al gobierno de Estados Unidos de los crímenes de guerra contra los palestinos junto con Israel”, dijo Muhammad al-Shalaldeh a la Agencia de Noticias Xinhua.

El apoyo de Estados Unidos al plan de Israel de anexionar “tierra palestina en Cisjordania” es uno de esos crímenes, dijo.