Feb 15 Trump urges Israeli premier to 'hold off' on settlements By Vivian Salama and Jill Colvin, Associated Press President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked Israel's prime minister to "hold off" on building Jewish settlements in land the Palestinians claim for their future state. Continue reading
Feb 15 Photo: At home among ruins in the Gaza Strip By Dayana Morales Gomez A Palestinian woman and her son are seen at the entrance of their impoverished house near the ruins of a building that was destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the summer of 2014. The two… Continue reading
Feb 02 Israeli leader vows new settlement as outpost is dismantled By Alon Bernstein, Associated Press Israel's prime minister on Thursday vowed to establish the first new West Bank settlement in over two decades "as soon as possible," promising to make up for the court-ordered demolition of an illegal settler outpost. Continue reading
Jan 17 WATCH: U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power on Israel, challenge of fake news By News Desk U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power defended the decision to abstain from a U.N. Security Council vote in December to condemn Israeli settlements, saying that “the building has to stop.”… Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch Kerry: Syrian conflict is 'the worst human catastrophe since World War II' By PBS News Hour In our most recent interview with a top Obama administration official, Judy Woodruff sits down with Secretary of State John Kerry as the presidential transition nears. They discuss Secretary Kerry's assessment of the U.S.-Russia relationship, now that intelligence has confirmed… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 12:02 Brooks and Corn on Obama's active final weeks and the Trump-Putin 'bromance' By PBS News Hour In foreign affairs, it was not a quiet few days leading up to the New Year's weekend -- from Secretary of State John Kerry’s blunt parting speech about Israel to President Obama’s announcement of retaliation against the Kremlin for election… Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch 3:46 Kerry on Israel: Friends need to tell each other hard truths By PBS News Hour Secretary of State John Kerry in a farewell speech blamed Israel’s settler movement and its “most right-wing government ever” for rejecting a two-state solution, explaining why the U.S. decided not to veto a UN resolution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch 8:07 What does Kerry's speech mean for U.S.-Israel relations? By PBS News Hour With Secretary of State John Kerry’s tough, parting words on Israel and the recent UN Security Council resolution vote, former State Department officials James Jeffrey and Ilan Goldberg join Hari Sreenivasan to examine the state of relations between the two… Continue watching
Dec 28 Israeli prime minister calls Kerry speech a 'deep disappointment' By Josef Federman, Associated Press Israel's prime minister vowed to work with the incoming Trump administration to contain the fallout from last week's U.N. resolution calling Israeli settlements illegal. Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch: Kerry questions Israel's commitment to two-state solution By Josh Lederman and Matthew Daly, Associated Press Stepping into a raging diplomatic argument, Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday staunchly defended the Obama administration's decision to allow the U.N. Security Council to declare Israeli settlements illegal and warned that Israel's very future as a democracy is… Continue reading