Where Secretary of State Pick Tony Blinken Stands on Jewish Issues
(JTA) — Tony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state, is the stepson of a Holocaust survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions,...
US Ambassador: Golan Will Be ‘Part of Israel Forever’
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman believes that the Golan Heights will remain under Israeli sovereignty, and certainly won’t be placed back in the hands of Syria’s current leader,...
Avi Berkowitz Stepping Up to Work on Israeli-Palestinian Peace
BY RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The sentence came at the end of a list of White House talking points regarding the surprising departure of Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former top...
Germany’s Insufficient Battle Against Anti-Semitism
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 744, February 16, 2018
By Manfred Gerstenfeld, BESA
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Photos of the burning of a homemade Israeli flag by Muslim demonstrators in Berlin in December 2017...
Israel Reverses Course, Approves $15M Transfer From Qatar to Hamas
Israel’s Security Cabinet reversed its decision earlier this week not to allow a $15 million transfer from Qatar to Gaza to help struggling Palestinians there.
On Tuesday, Israel halted a...
NGO Monitor says B’Tselem report on Gaza operation distorts international law
(JNS.org) The watchdog group NGO Monitor has found
that the latest report from the activist group B’Tselem on Israel’s November 2012 Operation Pillar of
Defense has a “number of
fundamental distortions of...
Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Italy Reach Deal on Longest Underwater Gas Pipeline
Israel, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy have reached an agreement on the world’s longest underwater gas pipeline, estimated to cost nearly $7 billion, the financial website Globes reported Sunday.
After signing a memorandum of understanding...
Report: Israel to Give Up Annexation for Better Relations With UAE
The New York Times is reporting that Israel has agreed to suspend plans to annex disputed areas of the West Bank as part of a deal to normalize relations...
From the Editor: Sovereignty and Peace?
Sovereignty or peace? Upon closer examination, it is not a matter of choosing one or the other. On the surface, it looks like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded his...
Trump Supports Reducing in U.S. Troops in Middle East
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the American presence in the Middle East should be reduced, adding that Israel is one of the main reasons U.S. troops...