“History settles every account. And today, on the value of American leadership and strength, history will record that the Senate did not blink,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Canada has previously withheld aid from the Palestinian Authority following its conduct of paying stipends to terrorists and their families.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Ultimately, these textbooks are a major impediment to the possibility of peace. They deny young Palestinians the chance of a violence-free and peaceful future..."
By JNi.Media
Top Democrats in Congress have called this a message to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
The project appears on the website of a PA council which begs foreign countries for money,
By Rachel Levy
The Palestinian Authority complains to the UN after Israel withholds tax money as partial payment for a huge electricity bill.
By Shalom Bear
The Gazans want to leave. Stop ignoring what they want. Stop recreating this conflict over and over again.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF deployed its ninth Iron Dome battery this week, after it was scheduled to be prepared only in a few months and was produced in record time.
The U.S. releases military aid to Egypt after a year-long freeze; Sec'y John Kerry promises 10 Apache helicopters to fight terror in Sinai.
Rand Paul, looking for the key to the White House, is trying to turn around his image of not being pro-Israel.
By JTA
A bill introduced by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee would link assistance to the Palestinian Authority to its efforts to stop incitement. Under the bill presented Wednesday by California Republican Rep. Ed Royce, the president would have to determine that the Palestinian Authority “no longer engages in a pattern of incitement against […]
By JTA
Funding to Israel was restored to its pre-sequester level of $3.1 billion in the spending bill the U.S. House of Representatives passed on Wednesday. Aid to the Palestinian Authority was conditioned on its not running to the United Nations for recognition. The $1.1 trillion bill passed Wednesday is the result of a deal brokered last […]
The Obama administration’s $3.2 billion annual military aid has been suspended due to the U.S. government shutdown over the debt ceiling. The sum for 2104 was to be transferred to Israel on October 1, but this is not the first time budget crises in the United States have delayed aid to Israel. “We are not […]
Israel is seeking an increase in U.S. military aid because of increasing security needs and new US sales of advanced weapons to Arab nations in the Middle East, Defense News reported. Israel is seeking a surge in future US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants not only to support its growing security requirements, but to offset […]
Saudi Arabia said Monday that it and other Muslim countries are ready to bankroll Egypt to make up for any financial aid that the United States might cut. “To those who have announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or threatening to do that, (we say that) Arab and Muslim nations are rich with […]
Islam is undergoing a modern crisis which perhaps only its clerics and lay leaders can rescue it from.
By JTA
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul held a conciliatory meeting with the Republican Jewish Coalition in his latest bid to forge ties with the pro-Israel community and left the GOP Jews with some "pleasant surprises,” Matthew Brooks, the Republican Jewish Coalition’s director, told the Washington Post. “While there may be areas of disagreement, he is very, very different […]
By Barry Rubin
If billions of dollars have not bought PA support for a two-state solution in 20 years why should anything change now?
Fayyad has no grassroots support or political power bases among Palestinians.
The “Unbreakable Alliance” motto for President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel next month may be undermined by massive budget cuts in US aid for Israel’ anti-terrorist missile programs.
By Daniel Pipes
When will American politicians and military leaders eventually realize that training foreign soldiers does not allies make them?
By Barry Rubin
The US government will provide arms, money, and diplomatic support to a regime whose ruling forces openly evince hysterical antisemitism and call for genocide against Israel.
By Rafi Farber
There is nothing qualitatively different between a trillion dollar coin, and a one dollar bill.