Palestinian state

Israel praises Slovenia for moving embassy to Jerusalem, revoking Palestinian State recognition

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa has visited Israel on numerous occasions, including in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 massacre.

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Slovenia's Prime Minister Janez Jansa arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 18, 2026.
The Mayor of Paris upon the granting of honorary citizenship to Palestinians, June 18, 2026.

Paris mayor grants city honor to civilians of Gaza, West Bank

For more than 20 years, the City of Paris has awarded honorary citizenship to people who are “threatened, imprisoned, or prosecuted because they defend human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Palestinian gunmen from the Balata Brigade of the Fatah movement carry their weapons during a military parade, in Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank, on November 4, 2022.

Fatah skips Cairo talks as Hamas delays Gaza disarmament

France 24’s Arabic service noted that many believe Fatah’s stretches of absence were due to the Democratic Reform Bloc’s participation.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Palestinian demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest against US position on Israeli settlements, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 26, 2019.

UK, Canada, France, Norway, Australia, NZ sanction West Bank settler individuals, entities

Six countries, including the UK and Canada, imposed joint sanctions on West Bank settlers and entities over violence, calling the actions a threat to a two-state solution.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER, MICHAEL STARR

Smotrich sets 'red lines' for ceasefire: Hamas withdrawal, no Palestinian state

Finance Minister Smotrich also confirmed that his red lines include the IDF remaining in certain perimeter areas of the Gaza Strip, as well as complete disarmament and withdrawal of Hamas.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a committee meeting on September 14, 2025.

Accentuating the positive: Mahmoud Abbas's UN address - opinion

Abbas discussed the Palestinian Authority’s reform agenda, which Western officials say can show whether the PA could oversee genuine statehood.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025ByNEVILLE TELLER
UK PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer hosts PA head Mahmoud Abbas at 10 Downing Street earlier this month. According to the last major poll of Palestinian opinion, about 81% of all Palestinians want Abbas to resign, notes the writer.

The two-state solution is not antisemitic - opinion

Most Israelis perceive recognition of Palestine as a threat to their state’s existence, but it is far-fetched to conclude that it is antisemitic.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
IT IS FARFETCHED to conclude that leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are antisemites, the writer argues.

Palestinian sovereignty and international law: Limits of UN recognition - opinion

Among other things, if current UN member states seek to establish the first Palestinian state, they will have to honor all listed expectations of the Montevideo (1933) and Vienna (1969) conventions.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025ByLOUIS RENÉ BERES
RIYAD MANSOUR, the Palestinian permanent observer to the UN, speaks after the General Assembly voted to endorse a declaration on a two-state solution earlier this month. Israel has no legal obligation to carve a new enemy state, the writer states.

Masterpiece of optics: The walkout of Netanyahu's speech is an orchestration of emptiness - opinion

It was not a plan; it was punctuation. It did not change the sentence; it changed the emphasis. And emphasis, in our age of clip and caption, is not nothing.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025ByCATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM
DELEGATES WALK OUT before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly on Friday. Delegations from across the Arab and Muslim worlds, a sprinkling of Africans, and some Europeans rose and left, the writer notes.

While the world distorts, the Balkans remember: Dr. Zuroff’s legacy honored - opinion

As Israel faces false genocide claims, the Balkans honor Dr. Zuroff’s decades-long mission to preserve Holocaust truth and confront historical revisionism.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2025ByALEKSANDAR NIKOLIC
(Illustrative) EFRAIM ZUROFF, former director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office, watches a procession commemorating the Latvian Waffen SS unit, also known as the Legionnaires, in Riga in 2010.

Trump's hostage deal proposal includes amnesty for terrorists, Palestinian state talks - report

The proposal's main point would be the release of all 48 remaining hostages within the first 48 hours of the deal taking effect.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip September 27, 2025.

Gantz: Palestinian recognition is not against Netanyahu, but against Israel's bipartisan consensus

Blue and White head Benny Gantz warns in NYT op-ed that recognizing a Palestinian state now risks Israel’s security and rewards PA failure.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Head of Blue and White party MK Benny Gantz speaks during press conference in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2025.

A dangerous mistake: Recognizing ‘Palestine’ now is a gift to Hamas - opinion

The United Nations' move to recognize a Palestinian state sends a clear message that terrorism works.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2025ByAMINE AYOUB
HUSAM ZOMLOT, the head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, holds up a plaque in a ceremony following Britain’s formal recognition of a Palestinian state, on Monday, in London.

'Israel is trying to blow up the Middle East,' Russian FM Lavrov alleges at UNGA

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also accused Israel of attempting to bury “UN decisions on the creation of a Palestinian state.”

SEPTEMBER 28, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a press conference after addressing the 80th United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2025.