Palestine

Bahrain is set to host the so-called "Peace to Prosperity workshop", to discuss what the US described as the economic part of President Donald Trump's "Deal of the century", his proposal for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The meeting on June 25 an…

LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday the U.S. Middle East peace plan that is set to be presented at an international conference in Bahrain this week is “shameful” and “doomed to failure”. “This conference and the sale of Pale…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, its first phase will be formally unveiled on Tuesday at an economic workshop in Bahrain. The ‘Peace to Prosper…

Palestine's economy does need investment but "before anything, there must be a political solution," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday, dismissing the White House's plan to entice more than $50 billion into Palestine. The White House u…

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates said on Monday it’s delegation to a U.S.-led Bahrain meeting on Palestine would be led by its minister of state for financial affairs. In a statement to Reuters, the country’s foreign ministry said Obeid al-Tayer w…

Analysts have rebuked the economic part of the United States' Middle East peace plan for failing to address the main problem that has heavily curbed the Palestinian economy - the 52-year-old Israeli military occupation over the Palestinian territories. The e…

The economic component of the Trump administration’s long-awaited Mideast peace plan drew chilly responses from regional allies Sunday, two days before it was to be discussed at a conference in the Gulf. An Israeli minister called a major piece of the White …

Palestinians on Sunday rejected the White House’s $50 billion economic proposal meant to boost the Palestinian and Arab economies, calling it a “snow job.” Their objection came as no surprise. Palestinian business organizations and officials have declined th…

About two years ago, US president Donald Trump entrusted his son-in-law and White House advisor, Jared Kushner, with one of the worlds most pernicious problems: achieving peace in the Middle East. Specifically, Kushner was tasked with formulating a plan to f…

JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) - Several major projects in U.S. President Donald Trump’s $50 billion economic blueprint for Israeli-Palestinian peace mirror previous proposals stalled by conflict, analysts said on Sunday. The plan, spearheaded by Trump’s son-in-l…