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By Joshua Marks
The Doha discussions, which reportedly included P.A. official Hussein al-Sheikh, also covered the establishment of an administrative committee to manage the coastal enclave.
By Ariel Kahana
The senior American official published clarifications and corrections to statements he made on television networks following Israel's strongly worded messages to the White House.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Egypt, the released terrorists were welcomed by representatives of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Hamas leader asked mediators in Qatar whether he could receive immunity as part of an agreement to free the remaining hostages.
Smotrich call the tripartite statement a "twisted and dangerous starting point" to "pressure us to stop the war and surrender."
“Having a proposal that’s unified between the three mediators can be quite powerful,” said a senior Biden administration official.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"There are still gaps between the sides," the Prime Minister's Office said.
The list includes the “Council of the United Arab Emirates,” and the members of the Gulf States Council, also known as the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) which brings together the following six countries in the Gulf: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Biden administration has repeatedly snubbed senior Israeli cabinet members—who are not tied to U.S.-designated terror groups—with whom it disagrees.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Qatar's premier said his country's position was being "misused" for "narrow political interests."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The fabricated story, which went viral on Arabic social media, accused Israeli soldiers of raping Gazan women during the IDF's ongoing operation in Gaza City's Shifa Hospital.
An Israeli source said the involvement of Qatar and Al Hisi in constructing the pier “is absolutely against the Israeli security interest.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Qatar was also unaware of any breakthroughs.
Medicines were found unopened in a Gaza hospital. The hostages never received them.
By Joshua Marks
The Arab Gulf state attacked PM Netanyahu for alleged remarks about Doha's role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas in hostage talks.
8,000 Arabs in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas in Judea and Samaria were surveyed.
Israel's War Cabinet approved the proposal 10 days ago and is still awaiting a response, according to Axios.
While the US pressures Qatar to expel Hamas leaders from its territory, Doha is instead trying to leverage its mediation to secure the terror groups’ future in the Gulf state.
The terrorist leaders left for Algeria, Beirut, Iran and other countries.
Qatar has begun sending money into Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Former Defense Minister Benny Gantz served as chairman of the information-gathering and analysis company while it tried to negotiate a deal with Qatar.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The level of information-sharing between Doha and Tehran should raise eyebrows in Washington.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli reporters have received some abusive treatment by Arabs in Qatar.
Instead, Patricia Hermanns, the ambassador of the Bahamas, was appointed to the post.
Previously, Israeli citizens could only enter Qatar for such events if they also held another nation’s passport.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Kan 11” TV news report says the plane took off from Ben-Gurion Airport and made a stopover in Amman, Jordan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said he does not envision the country joining the Abraham Accords “in the absence of a real commitment to a two-state solution” between Israel and the Palestinians.
By Israel Hayom
The “Gas for Gaza” initiative seeks to see natural gas pumped from Israel's Leviathan gas field into the Gaza Strip, according to Arab media.
This way, Qatar is not directly sending money to Hamas, bypassing the problem of sending them money.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel must approve individuals receiving aid to ensure that money goes to the poor and not to Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The core of the problem is political, as long as the peace process is not addressed, you cannot just count on economic normalization,” said Qatar's foreign minister.
PA Banks don't want to transfer the money to Hamas terrorists which opens them up to being shut down.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The banks seem to be concerned by the prospect of being exposed to terror-financing legal action.
Hamas does not agree to waive the payment of wages to its 27,000 civilian administration employees of the Gaza Strip.
There appears to be no information about Israel's vow this past May not to allow Qatari fund transfers into Gaza until two living and two dead Israeli captives are returned.
Hamas wants the money transferred in cash, because, you know...
The PA has no way to determine who in Gaza actually receives the Qatari money.
Egypt has been mediating with Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A delay in receiving money would lead to a security escalation, said Yahya Sinwar during a meeting with the U.N.’s envoy to the Middle East.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Gulf state has long supplied Hamas with money and certain goods.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The UAE and other Arab Gulf states have boycotted Qatar since 2017 and have demanded that it close the base.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel and its supporters have expressed objections to possible sales, saying that could undermine Israel’s regional Qualitative Military Edge.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Doha, with Ankara's support, has proposed to P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas that he form a joint list in the Palestinian Legislative Council with the Gaza-based terror group, and then a national-unity coalition.
A joint statement by the US and Qatar on Friday on the strategic dialogue raised tensions in the Palestinian Authority and there is a growing understating that Qatar is becoming an important link in the implementation of American policy.
The designation has been criticized by some, including Al Jazeera Media Network, as being part of the newly signed Abraham Accords with Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The PA has refused to accept tax funds collected by Israel for the PA.
Israeli officials believe Qatar is delaying the funds transfer for fear of being accused by the international community of supporting a terrorist organization and facing subsequent sanctions.
Some 800 – 1,000 of the families receiving the funds belong to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Al Jazeera news network ran a clip declaring Israel the biggest winner of the Holocaust, and then compared Israel to Nazis.
The Palestinian Authority may not let the fuel trucks into Gaza.
By JNi.Media
Today the Jordanian airbase is operating at “four to five times what the space was originally intended to support.”
By JNi.Media
'Just because the situation is ugly, and the wars are ugly, it's not our fault.'
Qatar is an important patron of Hamas, though Iran may soon replace them in that role.
By JNi.Media
The inherent philosophy of the Iron Dome anti-missile system matches Ya'alon's inherent philosophy of risking life and treasure not to defeat and eliminate, but to catch and release the enemy.
By JNi.Media
The three Gulf states gave Qatari citizens two weeks to pack up their belongings and leave.
The list of Hamas names appears to have been supplied by Israel.
By JNi.Media
The Elbit F-35 HMD provides the pilot with a virtual Head-Up Display (HUD), making the F-35 the first tactical fighter jet in 50 years to fly without a HUD.
By JNi.Media
The two groups have been on the outs with each other since their violent conflict in 2007, shortly after Hamas’s 2006 victory in the general elections in the Gaza Strip.
By JNi.Media
The Fatah–Hamas conflict of 2006–07, a.k.a. the Palestinian Civil War, resulted in 600 deaths and the split of the PA in 2007.
Qatar, Turkey and Hamas like the idea. Has anyone asked Israel?
Qatar "loaned" the Palestinian Authority $100 million dollars today...
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and the UAE, led by Sunni Muslims, share Netanyahu's fear of Obama making a bad deal with the Shi'ite regime.
The US signs an agreement with Turkey at the U.S. Embassy to train, arm and equip five thousand moderate Syrian opposition forces.
By Rachel Levy
Turkey has offered to host the Egyptian leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood after their eviction from Qatar.
High-ranking members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been asked to leave Qatar and set up a new headquarters elsewhere.
Qatar's horror of legitimizing Israel's existence extends to even listing its name for TV sports purposes.
By Rachel Levy
The US State Department has renewed its warning to American citizens against traveling to Israel on the eve of 9/11, prior to the Jewish high holy days.
Qatar funds both Hamas and the Brookings Institution. Martin Indyk is a head honcho at Brookings.
Hamas’ supreme leader Khaled Mashaal dashed any hopes of long-term peace with Israel in a speech in Qatar on Thursday in which he shot from the hip at Israel and also at his terrorist organization’s new partner, the rival Fatah movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. His lengthy speech in Qatar, which has […]
It turns out Hamas is worried about bad press from the obvious comparisons to ISIS.
Israel waited 12 hours to deny an agreement. Abbas talked with Mashaal while Shin Bet busted coup plot.
The good news that Zoabi and two of her Knesset pals left the country. The bad news is that they are coming back.
By Shalom Bear
Gazans are beginning to comprehend the damage Hamas rained down on them, as there are talks of PA forces to be deployed in Gaza.
“Oh the games people play now/…Never meaning what they say now/Never saying what they mean” – “Games People Play” by Joe South.
By Rachel Levy
The Obama administration casts Hamas in the light of a legitimate organization, not the terror group it is listed as by the US itself.
Kerry is consistent. He has talked so much and promised so much that, like the peace process, his ceasefire delivered nothing.
By Shalom Bear
We're waiting to hear back if there will be a cease fire this afternoon. The terms grant Hamas political legitimacy.
Abbas adopts Hamas as peace partner, big brave Kerry scurries out of Israel despite FAA ban and Mashaal goes off his rocker.
By Rachel Levy
Israel needs an ally in talks over a premature cease fire with Hamas terrorists intent on wiping out the Jewish State.
MK who fled Israel reappears; Hamas conditions include re-releasing all Shalit prisoners, opening Gaza port
Serry says he was trying to openly, not secretly, funnel money to Hamas.
By Rachel Levy
Arab media are salivating over Jewish squabbles about internal Israeli divisions on policy reported by wire services.
Turkey “will strongly support the reconciliation agreement and offer all humanitarian aid” for the Hamas-Fatah unity government that was announced Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Gaza’s de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan became a fan of Hamas five years ago, at the same time relations with Israel […]
Saudi Arabia is loudly silent on the deal with Iran, but its royal billionaire prince who owns part of Twitter and Apple says “we” are concerned. And guess who is “We”? Saudi Arabia and Israel.
By Shalom Bear
Hamas continues to reach out to fellow radical Islamists following the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
It is chutzpa but no surprise that Syria told the U.N. the “terrorist” rebellion is its 9/11. It is a surprise that the US delegates did not throw him out of the General Assembly.
John Kerry says an Israeli-Peace peace pact is “important to “regional security and stability.” ZOA says he is full of nonsense: Arab wars on Israel have nothing to do with their own internal problems.
The White House announced Monday that more than dozen more countries have formally backed a “strong international response" to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The United States now has the support of 24 countries, not including Israel which has tried to lay low. The list includes an interesting collection of allies, such as […]
Saudi Arabia has agreed to support an American-led attack on Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated on Sunday in Paris, where he met with Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elarab and nine Arab foreign ministers. He said “a number of [Arab] countries” are ready to sign a joint declaration blaming Syrian President Bassar […]
Egypt banned the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Al Jazeera's affiliate in Egypt and arrested journalists and former politicians. In response, the Muslim Brotherhood called for increased street protests for Friday, August 30.
By JTA
United States diplomatic missions in Israel reopened Monday after a day-long closure due to what was deemed a credible Al-Qaeda threat, but the State Department extended the closure of 19 other diplomatic missions in the Middle East through Aug. 10 “out of an abundance of caution.” “This is not an indication of a new threat […]
Egypt’s net international reserves rose to reach more than $20 billion due to the oil-rich Gulf States’ recently sent aids, Al-Ahram reported, citing the Central Bank of Egypt’s governor Hisham Ramez. Egypt’s net international reserves dropped in June to $14.9 billion, CBE announced. Foreign reserves had risen in April for the first time since October […]
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