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US Envoy Heads To Israel To Begin Embassy Relocation Effort
David Friedman, nominated to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.(AP/Susan Walsh) (REPORT) —...
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Netanyahu Rejects US Request To Freeze Settlement Contruction
President Donald Trump escorts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci) Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his government...
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Israel Approves Construction Of 212 New Settlement Units In Jerusalem
The Har Homa neighborhood, an illegal Israeli settlement in occupied east Jerusalem. (AP/Dan Balilty) The Israeli Planning and Construction Committee has approved the construction of 212 new settlement...
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Trump: Saudi Arabia Not Paying ‘Fair Share’ For US Defense
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP/Evan...
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Netanyahu Claims Embassy Move To Jerusalem Would ‘Advance’ Peace Process
A sign hangs on a building under construction in Jerusalem congratulating U.S. President Donald Trump, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP/Ariel Schalit) Israel has dismissed concerns in the United States over...
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Gulf States Seek Normalized Relations With Israel Ahead Of Trump Visit
President Donald Trump welcomes Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the White House in Washington, Monday, May 15, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh) Numerous Gulf states have offered...
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Amid Mounting Tenions, Israeli Settlers Storm al-Aqsa Mosque In Jerusalem
Israeli settlers inside al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. (Photo: Silwanic) A group of 137 Israeli settlers stormed Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning according to a media official from the...
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Al Jazeera Vows Retaliation After Israel Bans Network And Its Journalists
A Qatari employee of Al Jazeera Arabic language TV news channel walks past the logo of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. (AP/Kamran Jebreili) Al Jazeera says it will take legal action against Israel after...
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Israel Accused Of ‘War Crime’ For Forced Transfers Of Palestinians
The Har Homa neighborhood, an illegal Israeli settlement in occupied east Jerusalem. (AP/Dan Balilty) Israel may be committing a war crime by revoking residency permits for Palestinians in East...
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Palestinian Christians Fight Church Land Transfer To Israeli Settlers
A Palestinian Christian, lights candles, in a morning Christmas mass at St. George Melkite Greek Catholic Church, in the West Bank village of Burqin near Jenin city, Dec. 25, 2013(AP/Mohammed Ballas)...
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Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan: Dead on Arrival?
From almost the first day of his presidency, US President Donald Trump bragged that he would solve the Israel-Palestine conflict. Among his claims was that he could do what no US president had done. He...
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Trump Declaring Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital, The Worst Deal Ever?
Palestinians had hoped that 2017, the year that marked the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, 70 years since the Nakba and 50 years since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and...
View ArticlePalestinians Voice Concern Over Saudi Peace Plan’s Biased Toward Israel
Palestinian officials are voicing major concern following a recent meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, during which the prince set out a shockingly bad...
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Four Things That Could Explain Trump’s Jerusalem Embassy Decision
US President Donald Trump’s expected announcement of plans to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem has quickly whipped up a furor, with pundits and foreign leaders warning of intifada-style...
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Palestine Erupts In Protest over Trump Jerusalem Move
Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Thursday by Israeli soldiers as they protested against Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and in the wake of a call from Hamas for a...
View ArticleTrump Just Made Non-Arab Iran the Champion of Arab Nationalism
Opinion — Some sections of the crazy quilt that makes up the Trump administration want to push Iran back out of the Arab world and weaken it, in support of Israel and Saudi Arabia. Those actors have...
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Netanyahu Alienating American Jews for Alliance with Christian Evangelicals...
For decades most American Jews have claimed an “Israel exemption”: resolutely progressive on domestic issues, they are hawks on their cherished cause. Racism they would vigorously oppose if applied in...
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Why Iraqi Kurds Have Been Silent on Trump’s Jerusalem Move
The silence from Iraqi Kurdistan this week over the American president’s decision to relocate the US embassy to the divided city of Jerusalem was deafening. The diplomatic hush was only amplified as,...
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“We Will Not Serve in Your Army!” Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem Beaten, Arrested...
JERUSALEM — While U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement to move the Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has dangerously fueled an international powder keg, another keg is burning in the...
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How Trump’s Declaration Inflames a Middle East Already Ablaze
Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel predictably sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East and reverberated around the world. Anger and...
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