A day of lengthy speeches addressing a global audience concluded with few signs of international cooperation, with one glaring exception—the increasingly profound friendship and mutual admiration between the leaders of the United States and Israel.

“The two-state solution, once a cornerstone of American and Israeli policy and official communications, is now so explosive that it cannot be uttered even when the president of the United States and the prime minister of Israel meet to discuss the future of the Middle East,” writes Nathan Guttman.

The Trump administration has quietly directed an additional $20 million towards projects that would ‘directly benefit’ the Palestinian Authority, Capitol Hill sources told Jewish Insider.

In his address to the United Nations, the Egyptian president urged Palestinians to ‘be ready to coexist’ in peace with Israelis.

A senior Palestinian official said Monday it would be “utterly ridiculous” if Donald Trump did not commit to the two-state solution, ahead of a meeting between the US president and Mahmoud Abbas.

U.S. President Donald Trump told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that now is their “best shot” to achieve Middle East peace on Wednesday, hours before the Palestinian leader is slated to address the UN General Assembly. He added that “I will give my heart and soul” to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

“Israelis and Palestinians have grown the furthest apart during periods of quiet; it is in times of violence that the two nations have suddenly become flexible in their positions. That defies everything we tell ourselves about prospects for peace, and everything the world has told Palestinians they must do to achieve it.” Noam Sheizaf reviews ‘The Only Language They Understand,’ by Nathan Thrall.

“While Israel proceeds along its merry way, each day building more settlements and demolishing more Palestinian homes, it is far from being the secure and stable dream Netanyahu envisioned,” writes Jim Zogby.

Refueling the Palestinian economy must go hand-in-hand with a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, UN Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman told a high level donor meeting in New York on Monday night.

Greek Orthodox Church plunged into renewed crisis as its leaders are accused of selling off land to Jewish settlers.

An item on Israel’s top news program falsely accused a volunteer program that allows young diaspora Jews to directly engage with the occupation, of sending its members to clash with IDF soldiers, causing it to lose its main source of funding.

The latest episode of the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation saga is not a step closer to a unity government, analysts say.

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is planning to visit Gaza for talks after Hamas agreed to steps towards resolving a decade-long split with its West Bank-based rival Fatah.

Two-thirds of West Bank and Gaza residents want Abbas to resign; jailed Barghouti would win a presidential election against the current leader and Hamas’s Haniyeh.

Travel of people and movement of goods remain a fraction of what they were before the siege.