Israel

Middle East 11/18/20, 20:40

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Israel on Wednesday, Nov. 18, to accompany Bahrain's foreign minister on a historic visit, where the regional peace agreement that also involves the United Arab Emirates will be signed.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was adamant, “Frankly, this day would not have happened, these ...

Middle East 09/16/20, 03:06

According to the Oval Office, several Middle Eastern countries are expected to participate in a normalization deal the United States helped facilitate. The Trump administration predicts up to nine more Arab nations will join the new Israel Peace Agreement, which is hoped to be a significant step toward restoring peace and ...

Middle East 08/13/20, 14:06

President Trump along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Arab Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed—Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates—agreed on Thursday, Aug. 13, to a historic peace agreement. At a press conference from the Oval Office, President Trump announced the good ...

U.S. 03/06/20, 16:19

The rising popularity of President Donald Trump is shocking—he received 440,509 more votes than Bernie Sanders—the left-wing favorite in California, the most leftist of the states. According to the latest Super Tuesday poll results, 1.53 million voters elected Trump, while 1.09 million voted for Sanders, according to data updated at 2:14 ...

Asia & Pacific 12/26/19, 13:51

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a landslide victory in a primary election for leadership of the ruling Likud party. Official results announced early Friday showed Netanyahu capturing 72% of the votes, compared with 28% for challenger Gideon Saar. Earlier, Netanyahu had declared a “huge victory.” A Likud party member sits by ...

Politics 12/25/19, 20:19

A rocket was fired on Wednesday, Dec. 25, from the Gaza strip and into southern Israel toward the city of Ashkelon, where Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was attending a campaign event. He was rushed offstage, and into a bomb shelter, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed at least one rocket had ...

U.S. 11/18/19, 19:18

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the Trump administration doesn’t consider Israel’s settlements in the West Bank as a violation of international law. In a rare press conference on Monday, Nov. 18, Pompeo said, “The Trump administration is reversing the Obama administration’s approach toward Israeli settlements. U.S. public statements ...

Asia & Pacific 11/12/19, 06:12

A pair of Israeli airstrikes targeted senior Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza and in Syria early on Tuesday, escalating Israel's confrontation with Iran across the region and threatening to unleash another devastating round of cross-border violence with Palestinian militants. In eastern Gaza, the Israeli strike killed Bahaa Abu el-Atta and his ...

Politics 10/22/19, 13:16

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) threatened to cut off support for Israel as she campaigned for her election in the state of Iowa. Warren said on Oct. 19:,"Right now, Netanyahu [Prime Minister of Israel] says he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements, that does not move ...

World 09/12/19, 09:32

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran has been developing nuclear weapons at a secret facility near the Iranian city of Abadeh. In statements to the press, the Israeli leader said the information was obtained thanks to documents seized during a raid on a warehouse in Tehran last year, ...

U.S. 09/07/19, 13:28

Former President Barack Obama used U.S. satellites to spy on the Israeli army on the eve of the controversial nuclear deal with Iran, The New York Times reported. In an extensive article titled, "The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran" the media explained that the former president gave the ...

Opinion 08/21/19, 17:30

It perplexes me why anyone would question the perfectly logical move by Israel to deny Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., entry to the country. Who invites guests whose motive is to destroy their host? We certainly don’t do it in the USA. No one, elected official or not, is ...

U.S. 08/20/19, 18:53

President Trump was far from impressed with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), after she held an emotional press conference with Ilhan Omar on Monday, Aug. 20, in which the pair condemned Israel for blocking the duo’s planned trip. Referring to Tlaib as an anti-Semite the following day, the president refused to ...

Politics 08/19/19, 18:45

On Monday, Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib strongly criticized Israel for denying them admission to the Jewish state and called on congressional fellow members to visit when they could not. Omar, of Minnesota, claimed President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were suppressing the lawmakers’ ability to carry ...

Politics 08/18/19, 19:43

President Donald Trump tweeted out Sunday that Democrats are ready to wage war against Israel because the Squad is the new face of the Party. "House Democrats want to take action against Israel because it is fighting back against two (maybe four) people that have said unthinkably bad things about it ...

U.S. 08/17/19, 08:59

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said on Twitter that congressional representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib wanted to be banned from traveling to Israel. The senator assured in a tweet that Tlaib had refused the humanitarian visa granted by Israel to visit her elderly grandmother in the West Bank. The two congresswomen were ...

Politics 08/16/19, 17:19

Israel’s interior minister indicated the hypocrisy of U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Friday for abruptly canceling plans to visit family in the West Bank after the government granted permission for the trip. Tlaib was upset that Israel initially banned her and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar from entering the country on a ...

Asia & Pacific 08/16/19, 09:06

Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib says she won’t visit her relatives in the West Bank after Israel issued a permit on humanitarian grounds, citing “oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me.” On Thursday, Israel had decided to ban Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar from visiting the West Bank over their support for the ...

U.S. 08/15/19, 14:07

Israel's deputy foreign minister confirmed Thursday, Aug. 15, that Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib would be declared “persona non grata” after Israeli officials held talks on the decision to deny them entry on the grounds that they promoted anti-Semitism. According to The Times of Israel, Tzipi Hotovely announced, "We won’t ...

World 08/11/19, 06:24

Israel police and Palestinians clashed at a flashpoint at Jerusalem's holy site on Sunday, Aug. 11, as overlapping Jewish and Muslim holy days led to tensions there, an AFP journalist reported. Palestinian medics said at least 14 people were wounded, one seriously, in the skirmishes with police at the site, which ...