Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank

Israel is moving to start construction on a vast illegal settlement in the heart of the West Bank, designed to "bury the idea of a Palestinian state".…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/06/israel-vast-illegal-settlement-west-bank 

France recognizes Palestinian state after U.S. attempts to quash effort - The Washington Post

Critics of Trump say the event has shown the United States is outnumbered and out-led on an issue gaining increasing prominence amid the climbing death toll in Gaza. The majority of European countries now recognize a Palestinian state.

"The United States is completely isolated, and it really is undermining our influence around the world," Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) said in an interview. "The Biden administration was feckless on this, but the Trump administration is just a complete rubber stamp for Benjamin Netanyahu," the Israeli prime minister.

"Other countries around the world, especially in the Global South, can see American double standards on human rights, and our adversaries are exploiting that," Van Hollen added...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/22/rubio-france-palestine-statehood-un/

Palestinians deserve a state now for the same reasons Jews did in 1948

This will happen despite an expected U.S. veto next month in the United Nations, and in spite of the political alliance between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump is pragmatic; he will come to support the creation of a Palestinian state, as most Americans already do...

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5459576-palestinians-deserve-a-state-now-for-the-same-reasons-jews-did-in-1948/

Israel appears set to approve highly controversial 3,400-home West Bank settlement

The anticipated decision was immediately condemned by the EU. "The EU rejects any territorial change that is not part of a political agreement between involved parties. So annexation of territory is illegal under international law," the European Commission spokesperson Anitta Hipper said. 

Germany's foreign ministry said it "strongly" objected to the plan, and called on the Israeli government to "stop settlement construction" in the Palestinian territory…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/14/israel-appears-set-to-approve-controversial-settlement-of-3400-homes-in-west-bank

 

Democrats sign on to letter urging Trump to recognize Palestinian statehood

"This tragic moment has highlighted for the world the long overdue need to recognize Palestinian self-determination," the letter reads. "Just as the lives of Palestinians must be immediately protected, so too must their rights as a people and nation urgently be acknowledged and upheld." 

The letter comes as human rights experts sound the alarm over the unfolding famine in Gaza, and as some of Israel's key western allies, including France and Canada, have recently pledged to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN general assembly...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/house-democrats-letter-palestinian-statehood

 

Canada to recognise Palestine at UN general assembly, joining France and UK in push for new state

New Zealand and Australia were signatories to a declaration that indicates they could follow suit in the coming months…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/30/palestinian-statehood-recognition

 

Trump backs Israel and rebukes Starmer over Palestinian state recognition

US president says UK move would 'reward Hamas' after appearing to endorse recognition plan in Scotland meeting…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/trump-israel-rebukes-starmer-palestinian-state

 

UK to recognise state of Palestine in September unless Israel holds to a ceasefire | Foreign policy | The Guardian

The UK will formally recognise the state of Palestine this September as a result of the "increasingly intolerable" situation on the ground in Gaza, unless Israel abides by a ceasefire and commits to a two-state solution in the Middle East...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/uk-to-recognise-state-of-palestine-in-september-unless-israel-holds-to-a-ceasefire 

 

US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state | Trump administration | The Guardian

Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of 'a Muslim country'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/mike-huckabee-independent-palestinian-state 

 

How Israel Secretly Propped Up Hamas - The New York Times

As far back as December 2012, Mr. Netanyahu told the prominent Israeli journalist Dan Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Mr. Margalit, in an interview, said that Mr. Netanyahu told him that having two strong rivals, including Hamas, would lessen pressure on him to negotiate toward a Palestinian state...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html