By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This is about preventing them from hitting commercial and, quite frankly, naval ship activity in and around the Red Sea” and protecting Israel, John Kirby told reporters.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. president had been criticized for not inviting the premier to Pennsylvania Avenue.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
"We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake," Harris said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Protesters hurled water bottles and sticks at the Secret Service, which kept them from entering the White House grounds.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. State Department officials expressed those concerns privately, asking the Treasury Department to exempt them from laws barring the United States from sending funds into areas run by "Palestinian" terror groups.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was given several chances to clarify whether the congresswoman's remarks were antisemitic and if Netanyahu was invited to the White House.
“The first step the Biden administration must take to repair this critical relationship is to end its pursuit of any new deal with Iran,” Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) told JNS. “Only then can tensions thaw.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Chanukiot have previously been lit in the White House, but this is the first time one has been included as part of an official display.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Karine Jean-Pierre is set to take over the role on May 13.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Chanan Weissman, 37, currently director of technology and democracy at the National Security Council, has held the job before.
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.
Israel has made peace with Sudan.
The full transcript and video of the discussion between Trump, PM Netanyahu and Hamdok on the Israel-Sudan peace deal.
The Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. president called on governors to make such a move “right now” and threatened that “if there’s any question, they’re going to have to call me—but they are not going to be successful in that call.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
JStreetPAC also intends to raise $5 million for some 175 congressional endorsees, who make up more than half of the House and Senate Democratic caucuses, in the 2020 cycle.
By JoeSettler
Sovereignty, the elections and Trump's peace plan have been destroyed with a single interview, but Israel can still make it happen...
Minister Bezalel Smotrich sees an historic opportunity in the Deal of the Century, but (only) the good parts of the plan must be grabbed and implemented.
By JoeSettler
In a perfect world and on paper the plan is ingenious - but what happens when it meets reality?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“There were attempts by Trump to hold a phone call with Abbas, but the latter refused,” a source told the Anadolu news agency.
Nothing has “trumped” the opportunity I recently had to serve as the opening speaker and emcee for a luncheon in honor of President Trump attended by hundreds of Orthodox Jewish businessmen
The White House said the two leaders discussed “the threat from Iran, as well as other critical bilateral and regional issues."
President Trump sent a Happy Birthday note to Prime Minister Netanyahu, in honor of Netanyahu's 70th Birthday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
This summer saw Iran seizing foreign oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, further exacerbating the situation.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The report quoted three unnamed former senior US officials.
By JNi.Media
The news report comes just hours after a State Department official said the United States would redirect more than $200 million earmarked for economic aid to the PA and Gaza to projects elsewhere.
By JNi.Media
There's an abundance of nursing homes in Münsterland, Germany, and one of them has just become home to a 95-year-old Nazi who once participated in murdering 6,000 Jews in one day.
By JNi.Media
'Mr. Trump, do not play with the lion’s tail, it would only lead to regret'
By JNi.Media
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the summit, noting, with a hint and a nudge to the White House, "As long as we remain united (within NATO), we can dialogue with Russia."
The plan suggests ways the White House can actively work to assist the Iranian public in overthrowing the radical Islamic regime.
So what's the answer? What's the real peace plan that will bring peace? Tamar presents 'The Isaiah Plan'.
The annexation law fallout was put behind them by these two best buddies.
President Trump talks Jerusalem, Israel, Jews, America and Chanukah.
President Trump recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
By JNi.Media
An American source stated in response to the story that the Pollard affair should not be linked to the peace agreement.
By JNi.Media
According to The New York Times, Israeli intelligence sources have uncovered Russian government hackers who tried to steal US intelligence programs.
By JNi.Media
'As opposed to similar calls in other years, no one from the Jewish community introduced or thanked him, and the president took no questions. The call lasted for about 5 minutes.'
By JNi.Media
In late August, four coalitions of Jewish clergy issued statements they planned to boycott the president's call, in response to Trump’s weak response to the neo-Nazi and white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Va.
Israel goes out to the American people affected by Hurricane Harvey.
By JNi.Media
In July, when Turkish President Erdogan attacked Israel's security policy on the Temple Mount, Netanyahu issued a statement saying, "It would be interesting to see what Erdogan would say to ... the Kurds. Erdogan is the last one who can preach to Israel."
By JNi.Media
'Often times I found myself asking foreign presidents not to speak at the Knesset for fear of a disgraceful outburst,' Speaker Edelstein said.
By JNi.Media
In 2016 the PA paid 26,800 killed terrorists' families a total $183 million, and 6,500 terrorist prisoners $135 million.
Where is the real power in American in the world of law and order?
If Trump really believes the missing ingredient for peace has been a master real estate dealmaker, he’s wrong. But his willingness to pound the table at Abbas is nevertheless significant.
Trump showed moral clarity with his new post.
It appears that once again the Trump administration was blind-sided by someone inside with their own agenda.
From the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
By JNi.Media
As foreign visits to the Jewish State go, the Nixon excursion had gone pretty well.
By JNi.Media
The Turks are afraid of any show of Kurdish might, because they are in the midst of a campaign to repress their own Kurdish citizens.
By Ben Cohen
As we can see (pictured), Ambassador Friedman's heart and HEAD are in the right place.
What Trump should have told Abbas.
Of most interest to our readers are the words "Tel Aviv to Jerusalem"
Full transcript from the meeting.
Trump wants to make a peace deal...
By JNi.Media
'Six million Jews, two-thirds of the Jews in Europe, murdered by the Nazi genocide. They were murdered by an evil that words cannot describe, and that the human heart cannot bear.'
By JNi.Media
Lempert is planning to leave after Palestinian Authority Charmian Mahmoud Abbas' May 3 meeting with Trump.
We present a cross-selection of responses we received...
...and the anti-Trump activists go wild.
By JNi.Media
Kushner has Trump's ear on foreign policy, but is yet to familiarize himself with the 'inner workings of the Pentagon.'
By JNi.Media
MK Smotrich called on his colleagues on the right to keep their finger on the pulse and not allow Netanyahu 'dissolve the construction effort.'
By JNi.Media
'President Trump will soon have to decide if confronting the Palestinians on that terrorist incitement is more urgent than pursuing a pathway to peace.'
By JNi.Media
'We do not know who Minister Liberman has been talking to, but from our sources, it is clear that the policy of the Trump administration has not changed.'
By JNi.Media
'A two-state solution that doesn't bring peace is not our goal that anybody wants to achieve.'
By JNi.Media
The Messiah can't be too far away, if Yishai Fleisher was invited by the Gray Lady to explain how Israel can remain Jewish and democratic without the two-state solution.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu should meet US President Donald Trump as an equal when he goes to the White House.
By JNi.Media
Friedman was described by Al-Monitor as 'an Orthodox Jew who wears a yarmulke' (God help us).
"Congress is willing to hold hearings about other options for the Israel-Palestinian story other than the two-state solution."
By JNi.Media
And not one word, once again, from the White House Spokesman, about any 'two-state solution,' thank you very much.
By JNi.Media
PM Netanyahu has been on both sides of the fence regarding the new bill, but mostly, people in his circle explained, out of fear of retribution from the Obama Administration.
NYC Council member Chaim Deutsch sent a letter to President Obama asking for last-minute clemency for Sholom Rubashkin before he leaves office.
By JNi.Media
Jared Kushner is a man who knows how to keep a grudge, and knows the secret of revenge being best served ice cold. Don't underestimate him, don't mess with him, don't take him for granted.
By JNi.Media
The agreements had been kept secret for almost a year, and were publicized only because the Trump administration indicated it was planning to go public with them.
By JNi.Media
'A Trump Presidency is likely to witness a complete departure from the Washingtonian doublespeak. […] In fact, Trump is set to expose American foreign policy for what it truly is, and has been for decades.'
By JNi.Media
Netanyahu's spokesman David Keys said Israel has ironclad information that the Obama administration helped craft the anti-settlements UNSC resolution.
By JNi.Media
He did not mention that, had the Maccabees redeemed the Holy Temple today, they would surely have been condemned by the UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, because said Holy Temple stood in 'Occupied East Jerusalem.'
By JNi.Media
Habayit Hayehudi Chairman MK Naftali Bennett said on Saturday night that now is the time to switch from retreat to sovereignty.'
By JNi.Media
President-Elect Donald Trump engaged in his first act as leader of the free world on Thursday, when his tweet stopped the game clock on an Egyptian anti-settlements UN Security Council resolution.
By JNi.Media
Say what you will, the man has great writers and – crucial – can deliver a line.
By JNi.Media
A whopping 25 out of Netanyahu's 30 Knesset Members have signed a commitment to pass the Arrangements Act, which would force a war between the government and the high court.
By JNi.Media
This week, Ingraham has been twitter-shaming Obama for not intervening to stop the violent protests against the November elections results. "Where is Pres Obama urging calm?" she tweeted on Saturday.
Netanyahu told cabinet ministers that relations with Washington are “solid” and would continue to be strong with either Hillary Clinton or Donald J. Trump in the White House.
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
To be fair, the media, Jewish and otherwise, have yet to catch Abedin in a scandalous anti-Israel statement, the kind that White House staff resignations are made of.
By JNi.Media
Congressman Jerry Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat whose 10th Congressional District actually includes Ground Zero, was adamant in attacking the president's arguments.
By JNi.Media
A group named 9/11 Families & Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism released a statement Friday arguing the president's reasoning for the veto is "unconvincing and unsupportable."
By JNi.Media
Did Netanyahu sign the MOU in return for an Obama promise to leave him alone between Nov. 9 and January 17?
By JNi.Media
The US and Iran did not draft a written settlement agreement or any other formal documentation of the cash transfers, and Iran directed the Iran-US Tribunal at the Hague that it not record the settlement of its claim.
By JNi.Media
Jerry Nadler stuck his neck out as the only Jewish Congressman to support Obama's nuclear deal with Iran — which did not earn him the DNC staff's respect.
By JNi.Media
Ahmadinejad describes the years of “oppression and cruelty by different American governments” against Iran, which merely held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
By JNi.Media
On Sunday, the White House staff let the Israelis know they were fuming, and unable to understand how Israel chooses to attack the president in the midst of negotiating the biggest military aid package.
By JNi.Media
It could be that the bulk of Trump's voters remain under the polling radar, but come November they would give their candidate his unlikely victory.
By JNi.Media
Erekat has raised the flame under his attacks on Israel for its audacious killing of Arab terrorists, looking to link it in the Europeans' minds the horror Arab terrorists are inflicting on their civilian population.
By JNi.Media
Kaine would be a bonanza to leftwing Israeli Jews, very much like the folks who are currently in the White House.
By JNi.Media
There is a dispute between the professional echelon in the defense ministry and Prime Minister Netanyahu over the American proposal.
By JoeSettler
How do you fight an opponent who wins by manipulating through media and drowning out opposing voices?
By JNi.Media
“Yes, I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican. He’s our nominee."