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Foreign Minister Cohen discusses peace expansion and visa program with Chargé d'Affaires Hallett

Nides offers a prayer for peace as he wraps up his diplomatic mission, working with three Israeli prime ministers.

Israel granted retroactive authorization on Sunday to nine Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank and announced mass-construction of new homes within established settlements, moves likely to draw US admonition. The first to publish the decisions by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet were two pro-settler politicians whose inclusion…

Israel granted retroactive authorisation on Sunday to nine Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank and announced the construction of new homes within established settlements, moves likely to draw U.S. opposition.

The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Adalah, filed on Monday a letter to object against a plan to build the new US embassy and diplomatic compound in Jerusalem. The letter charges that the missions will be built on land that was confiscated from Palestinians. The letter was…

The US ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, said on Wednesday that the US expects Israel, under a visa-waiver deal discussed between the allies, to enable free passage for Palestinian-Americans into the occupied West Bank. The West Bank saw an upsurge in violence over the past year and is among the…

The United States expects Israel, under a visa-waiver deal being discussed between the allies, to enable free passage for Palestinian-Americans into the occupied West Bank, the U.S. ambassador said on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejects BDS and unilateral actions &  the Abraham Accords can be “leveraged” to pressure Israel

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is grappling with how to deal with a new Israeli government that will be the most right-wing in that country's history and may stand in the way of core U.S. goals for the Middle East.