By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly voiced this concern to his Israeli counterpart.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Texas senator criticized the White House for boycotting scientific and technological cooperation with Jews in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Leaders of anti-Israel groups don’t belong at the helm of a museum, whose founding principles call for “support for a Jewish homeland,” according to Zionist Organization of America.
Iran is holding talks with the US via Oman.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Biden administration doesn’t have a clue,” tweeted the Republican Jewish Coalition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
His faith and study taught him that education is the antidote to hate and the cornerstone of humanity, the White House said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Amid U.S. pressure, Jerusalem reportedly will freeze for several months the legalization of additional young settlements in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom will now be permitted to profit in the Islamic Republic without facing sanctions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly made the request during his visit last week to Israel in a bid to de-escalate tensions amid rampant PA Arab terrorism.
By Ariel Kahana
Disagreements over the post of defense minister has lead to an impasse in coalition negotiations, with Netanyahu attempting to assuage concerns over the matter, asking his supporters for “a little patience.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Nafftali Bennett: The IDF’s rules of engagement “will be determined by the IDF commanders, independent of any pressure – internal or external.”
Moreover, Iran has offered to help Russia evade sanctions with both countries having collaborated with China to increase diplomatic, economic and defense cooperation, noted the letter.
Counter-terrorist operations were halted due to US President Joe Biden’s visit to the country last week.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Despite flying the Israeli flag while in the rest of the Jewish state, it was noticeably missing on the last leg of the U.S. president’s visit.
Biden was surprised to learn that one of the IDF’s top weapons technicians is a brilliant young man with autism and that Israel incorporates young people with disabilities into its ranks.
"The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of people, including Americans. We refuse to believe that the United States would remove its designation as a terrorist organization."
The decision not to reopen the Jerusalem consulate to the Palestinian Authority is still only a temporary one that Biden can change.
PA revenue during the first 10 months of 2021 were the highest in its history.
“Give me an example of one Muslim state with possibly the exception of Morocco, where Jews and other religions live and prosper as minorities."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price: “The delegation provided a verbal briefing on information that they had on certain groups. They provided written materials. We’ve provided those written materials to our counterparts in the administration.”
“One great fear of the current impasse is rather than revert to pressure, the Biden administration will define ‘other options’ as settling for even less than the JCPOA in a bid to try to cap the nuclear program, which has expanded far beyond the JCPOA’s limits,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted its bias, saying the council “suffers from serious flaws, including disproportionate attention on Israel and the membership of several states with egregious records.”
Source: Prime Minister Bennett wanted to demonstrate he can be “prime ministerial” like his predecessor, while President Biden needed to show that despite the Afghanistan crisis, he is able to conduct foreign diplomacy and that the U.S. is still important in the Middle East.
Another step by the Biden administration to reverse the successes of the Trump administration in the Middle East.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I’m looking forward to discuss, as we have discussed before, the challenges that we have with Iran, with the Palestinians,” Gantz said to Blinken before the meeting. “As far as Gaza concerned, we do look for stability and prosperity for everybody,” said Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
The defense minister shares Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Benjamin’s grave concern over the emerging Iran nuclear deal, though believes that strategic dialogue, as opposed to a more defiant posture, is the way forward with Israel’s greatest ally.
There's lots to talk about.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s “greatest threat is the existential threat posed by Iran’s efforts to arm itself with nuclear weapons, whether to threaten us directly – with atomic weapons – with the destruction of a small state, or to threaten us with tens of thousands of missiles or a great many missiles backed by a nuclear umbrella."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Biden said that Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice will be using the “all of the tools at its disposal to combat hate crimes.”
The United States “has a deep and consistent interest” in doing its best to “take down this terror—this campaign against Israel, the ‘Little Satan’—that ultimately could grow into an Iranian campaign against the ‘Great Satan,’ the United States.”
"Americans should pray for the peace of Jerusalem and stand without apology for our most cherished ally, Israel, until the violence is quelled and Israel’s security is restored."
By Sean Savage
In national press briefings and internationally, the United States has backed up a pledge to defend its ally. But that comes against pressure by progressive lawmakers and even some more moderate congress members who have issued statements that can be perceived as having moral equivalency between Israeli and Arab actions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Lack of support for Israel is leading to new attacks on our allies,” said former President Donald Trump.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A treaty is different in that it requires congressional approval under Article I of the U.S. Constitution.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is critical that we stand together to demand systemic reform to educational materials ... before one more child is taught from textbooks riddled with hateful lessons,” states a letter to U.S. legislators.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to the memo, the goal is to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace under a two-state solution framework “based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps and agreements on security and refugees.”
Lip service aside, the administration’s moves make clear that for Biden and his advisers, Arab-Israel peace is an impediment to their ideologically motivated efforts to empower the PLO and Iran.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The US is returning full force to failed ideas.
Compensation could take the form of reparations, investment or “measures to prevent a repeat of what Trump did,” says Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The court’s ability to “investigate, probe and render justice” is being undermined in the United States, says Omar.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Neither leader is probably eager for the call that will need to be made sooner or later.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Back to the failed formulas again.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s military head has ordered plans for possible hit on Iranian nuclear sites.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
America will also renew relations with the Palestinian Authority, noting any Mideast peace deal must be agreed to by both sides.
Reports indicate that Syrian anti-aircraft fire hit a civilian home.
The latest polls show that Hamas stands to gain control of the Palestinian Authority Legislative Council and possibly the presidency if elections are held..
In the wake of the "Arab Spring," winds of change and revision were beginning to blow in Jordan as well, and the largest and most organized body involved was the Muslim Brotherhood.
Cairo is concerned that a Biden administration will be hostile, and will conclude a new nuclear deal with Iran that would undermine regional stability, say Egyptian officials.
“AIPAC congratulates President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their election victory,” said the pro-Israel lobby in a statement.
“The American people are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Trump is preferred by 74 percent of Orthodox, 23 percent of Conservative, 20 percent of Reform, 3 percent of Reconstructionist and 14 percent of secular Jews.
By Avi Abelow
Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden stating that the US army will “escort [President Trump] from the White House with great dispatch”
By JNi.Media
Like the bulk of the Democratic party, Biden supports a two-state solution.
By JNi.Media
John Podesta served as President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1998 until the end of Clinton's time in office in January 2001.
By JNi.Media
Erdogan lectured Biden on how Gulen is operating a global terrorist network from his little home in Pennsylvania, and repeated his demand that the US immediately detain Gulen, so he won't give media interviews.
By JNi.Media
"There is at the moment no political will that I observed among Israelis or Palestinians to move forward with serious negotiations."
Both US Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry will speak Monday for J Street.
Netanyahu thanked Obama for agreeing to attend Israeli Embassy event after having been away for so many years.
The Vice President bared his heart and emotions in a packed synagogue, saying the biggest factor is if he has the "emotional energy."
Cong. Brad Sherman will vote no on the Iran deal and wants to make sure it won't bind future Presidents or Congresses.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called US Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night and expressed condolences on behalf of himself, his wife Sara and the people of Israel on the passing of Beau Biden this past Saturday. The Prime Minister told Biden that he recalled the pride with which the latter – during their 20 years […]
By Batya Medad
Netanyahu said to Biden: Abbas doesn't want peace. Now what?