Donald Trump Says He Is A “Big, Big Fan” Of Israel

Israeli media alleged the two Palestinians tried to carry out a stabbing attack, which the Palestinian media denied.

“In response forces on site fired at the assailant”, it added.

The incidents come after a recent spate of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories following Israeli incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

The army even called on the government to allow more Palestinians to legally build homes in Area C, the 60 percent of the West Bank under sole Israeli control.

Two months have passed since the beginning of what some are calling a new Palestinian “Intifada” (uprising) in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a series of events that have left at least 109 Palestinians dead and thousands injured.

The Palestinian health ministry said in an e-mailed press statement that Abdul Rahman Barghouti (27), was shot dead by Israeli troops’ gunfire in the village of Aabood, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Hours earlier and just 12 miles away, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier before being shot dead. Israeli forces have killed 102 Palestinians in the same period, of whom 63 were identified by Israel as assailants or caught on camera carrying out assaults, while most others were killed in clashes with police or the military. One soldier and a civilian were wounded before security forces killed the attacker.

The arson attack occurred in July in the West Bank village of Duma.

Trump took a similar approach in discussing Israeli-Palestinian peace, saying the only way to resolve the issue is “if you had a real dealmaker, somebody that knew what he or she is doing”.

The two-state solution envisions an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, with the boundaries negotiated in talks between the parties.

“Israel’s policy of ignoring settler attacks against Palestinians and its unwillingness to investigate these attacks and hold perpetrators accountable signifies its complicity with these crimes”.

The army’s recommendations were apparently made several months ago, and will now have to be revisited, Israeli military sources said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labelled it “terrorism” – a word usually used by Israelis to refer to violence committed by Palestinians. Discouragement rooted in decades of Israeli occupation has been attributed by the Palestinian leaders.