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A sign on a bridge leading to the US Embassy compound ahead the official opening in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 13, 2018. Monday's opening of the U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem, cheered by Israelis as a historic validation, is seen by Palestinians as an in-your-face affirmation of pro-Israel bias by President Donald Trump and a new blow to frail statehood dreams. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem shows Trump pro-Israel bias, Palestinians say

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

In unusually strong language for a Supreme Court filing, Theodore Olson, the lawyer for the victims, wrote, "The government is not being square with the court." (Associated Press)

Trump administration sides with PLO in terror victims’ Supreme Court appeal

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington is seen at sunset. The Trump administration is siding with the Palestine Liberation Organization in urging the Supreme Court to reject an appeal from American victims of terrorist attacks in Israel in the early 2000s. The victims are asking the high court to reinstate a $654 million verdict against the PLO and Palestinian Authority over attacks in 2002 and 2004 that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump administration backs PLO in victims’ high court appeal

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves to the media as he arrives to head the Cabinet session in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' former official resident in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. Hamdallah has held the first government meeting in the Gaza Strip as part of a major reconciliation effort to end the 10-year rift between Fatah and Hamas. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Explosion strikes Palestinian prime minister’s convoy in Gaza

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in Istanbul, threatened to remove the U.S. from the Middle East peace process because of President Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (Associated Press) **FILE**

How U.S. can stop Palestinian Authority from abusing Interpol

By Ted Bromund

In this Dec. 22, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Palestinians outraged by Trump’s ‘blackmail’ to cut funding

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Palestinian burn a poster of the U.S. President Donald Trump during a protest in Bethlehem, West Bank, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2017. President Trump forged ahead Tuesday with plans to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital despite intense Arab, Muslim and European opposition to a move that would upend decades of U.S. policy and risk potentially violent protests. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Donald Trump: Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, U.S. Embassy to move

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

An employee of the Palestinian Authority stands guard on the Palestinian side of the Erez checkpoint between Israel and Gaza, at Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. The Islamic militant Hamas group has handed over control of Gaza’s border crossings with Israel and Egypt to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority. Wednesday’s handover was the first tangible step in implementing a reconciliation deal between and the rival Fatah party, which controls the Palestinian Authority.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)

In key step, Hamas gives up control of Gaza border crossings

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad (right) and Hamas' representative, Saleh al-Arouri, kissed after signing a reconciliation deal Thursday in Cairo. (Associated Press)

Egypt’s Palestinian unity talks pressure Israel

By Jacob Wirtschafter and Asma Jawabreh - Special to The Washington Times

Palestinian activist Issa Amro, center, celebrates his release from detention, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. The Palestinian Authority has released Amro a week after he was arrested for writing a Facebook post criticizing the government of President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinians release activist jailed for Facebook post

By MOHAMMAD DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

Senate panel approves bill to suspend US aid to Palestinians

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

Foreign Aid Funding Terror Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Terrorists use foreign aid to fund terror

By Doug Lamborn and Elazar Stern

This handout photo provided by the Israeli military on Saturday, July 22, 2017, shows Israel's defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman talking to army chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot at an Israeli military base in the West Bank. Israel has sent more troops to the West Bank. This comes a day after a Palestinian stabbed to death three members of an Israeli family in their home and after widespread Israeli-Palestinian clashes erupted over escalating tensions at the Holy Land's most contested shrine. (Israeli military via AP)

Israel to raze home of Palestinian who killed 3 Israelis

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in the West Bank City of Bethlehem. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump, Mahmoud Abbas say peace deal with Israel is possible

By S.A. Miller and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Protesters in Ramallah support the hunger strike launched by Palestinian prisoners and their jailed leader Marwan Barghouti. (Reham Abdelrahman)

Marwan Barghouti snack video heats up Israel prison debate

By Asma' Jawabreh and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Hamas Supreme Leader Ismail Haniyeh announces the arrest of a suspect in the March shooting death of Mazen Faqha, a top Hamas militant commander, in a hastily arranged news conference in front of Fagha's home, in Gaza City, Thursday, May 11, 2017. Haniyeh refused to identify the suspect, but said that Hamas had determined the gunman, apparently a local Palestinian, had acted on the orders of Israel and he expected the suspect would face execution. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas leader announces arrest in shooting of commander

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Middle East Peace Dove Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Middle East peace deal is difficult

By Bridget Johnson

FILE -- In this Dec 14, 2012 file photo, Palestinian supporters of Hamas hold a picture of leader Khaled Mashaal, during a rally to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the militant group, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The new political program of Hamas, published Monday, is meant to help the Islamic militant group break out of its international isolation. The manifesto does not formally replace the group's fiery 1987 founding charter, but adopts more conciliatory language, even if some goals remain unchanged _ such as the eventual liberation of all of historic Palestine, including what is now Israel. (AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed)

Palestine doesn’t deserve U.S. support

By Shoshana Bryen

Members of the Knesset guard carry the coffin of former Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. Peres died early Wednesday from complications from a stroke. He was 93. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Latest: Bill Clinton, Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem

Associated Press

Violence in the West Bank in the past five months has soared, killing 174 Palestinians and injuring 10,000 others, while 26 Israelis have been killed and 440 wounded. (Associated Press)

Palestinians admit working with Israel to foil attacks

By Asma' Jawabreh - Special to The Washington Times