Netanyahu and King Abdullah met to discuss the latest developments in the region ahead of the possible launching of Trump's peace plan.  

'Let Abbas’s vile words be his last as Palestinian leader,' the New York Times wrote while calling on him to resign.

'The US cannot be a mediator or partner in the peace process unless it withdraws its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.'

Palestinian refugees number only several thousand, and not the millions claimed by the Palestinians, according to a classified State Department document. 

'The time has come for President Abbas to choose between hateful rhetoric and concrete and practical efforts to improve the quality of life of his people,' Greenblatt stated. 

While threatening to thwart Trump's peace plan, the Palestinians are discovering that they are the only ones in the Arab world who oppose it.

'You can say it will be good if we give [the Palestinians] a state … empirically it doesn’t work with what we see,' Netanyahu stated.

Equating signing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal with treason, Abbas vowed not to take such an action.

When Palestinians and some of their supporters in the international community say that they want an end to the 'occupation,' they mean they want to see an end to Israel's existence.

'We are the descendants of the Canaanites that lived in the land of Palestine 5,000 years ago and continuously remained there to this day,' claimed Abbas improbably at the UN.

'Let us not delude ourselves about the chances of signing a peace agreement with the Palestinians in the near future,' Edelstein told a gathering of foreign diplomats. 

Senior Palestinian  official Saeb Erekat called US Ambassador Haley 'impudent' and said she should refrain from criticizing Mahmoud Abbas.

At Israel's behest, the Council of Europe for the first time called on the Palestinians to stop incentivizing terrorism.

Haley assailed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas Thursday, saying he lacks the courage and will to seek peace with Israel.

'Meaningless one-sided decisions do not advance dialogue,' Lavie said of the European anti-US resolution. 

The US will withhold millions in aid to so-called Palestinian refugees, contingent on major changes to the organization and Palestinian progress towards peace.

Abbas railed at Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

'With the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?'

The Palestinians' response to Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem has been 'ugly, needlessly provocative and anti-Semitic,' Ambassador Friedman said.

'We cannot envision any situation under which the Western Wall would not be part of Israel,' senior Trump administration officials said.

If countries really seek peace in the Middle East they must acknowledge the truth. Urge leading countries to take the first step towards this vital objective by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital!   

The Palestinians are exerting pressure wherever they can in an attempt to halt the US' recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. 

The Trump administration has backtracked on its threat to close the PLO mission in Washington after it breached US law, watering it down meaningless 90 day long limitations.  

The Trump administration has threatened to close the PLO mission in Washington for asking the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis for alleged crimes against Palestinians.

While praising the Palestinians for being 'committed to nonviolence,' Kerry blamed Israel for a lack of peace in the region.