Hamas urges UN to speed up transfer of Qatari money

Hamas says efforts to funnel Qatari aid into Gaza is being stalled at the UN.   Elad Benari, Canada, 20/04/19 01:36   Hamas employee after receiving her salary paid by Qatar Reuters Hamas on Friday called on the UN to speed up a plan to funnel Qatari aid into Gaza as part of an Egyptian-brokered […]

Kim Jong-un Says Ready to Cooperate With Russia for Peace on Korean Peninsula

World 20:41 19.04.2019(updated 20:47 19.04.2019) Get short URL 1120 MOSCOW (Sputnik) – North Korea’s chairman Kim Jong-un has expressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin his readiness to cooperate in order to reach peace on the Korean Peninsula and to develop relations between the two states. “I am ready to closely cooperate with you in order to steadily and constructively […]

Special U.S. Envoy Greenblatt: No reason to use ‘two state’ solution

Special U.S Envoy Jason D. Greenblatt said during an interview on Friday to Sky News in Arabic that a ‘two states’ solution means different things to different people. By Hagay Hacohen April 19, 2019 23:45   1 minute read. Both Israelis and Palestinians “will be pleased from some parts” of the so-called Deal of the […]

Israel’s Natural Gas Discoveries Are Bridging Political Divides And Are Forging Economic Ties

This photo shows Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem, Jerusalem Post via AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS Even more natural gas has been found off Israel’s coastline, which may help shift the global energy paradigm. Greek oil and gas developer Energean has discovered what it says is between […]

Netanyahu in Passover Greeting: Story of the Jewish People ‘Has No Parallel’

by Algemeiner Staff     Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he meets with US Vice President Mike Pence in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 14, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Kacper Pempel / File. Newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a Passover greeting in a video published on social media on Friday, ahead of […]

Right from Wrong: A Passover tribute to President Trump

Some of the cynics among us, tend to throw in a few digs at the dinner table about how we wouldn’t need so much saving at the last minute if divine intervention had kept us from needing it. Ruthie Blum April 18, 2019 20:38 According to an old joke that never wears out its welcome, […]

Hezbollah leader believes war with Israel is highly possible this summer

2019-04-19 BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:10 P.M.) – Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Ansarallah reportedly told his top commanders at a meeting last night that war with Israel is highly possible. This meeting was revealed by veteran journalist Elijah Magnier; he is releasing the details regarding this conversation in an article on Saturday. “Last night, During a private […]

IDF attacks Hamas military posts in Gaza

There are no known casualties. JERUSALEM POST STAFF April 19, 2019 16:10 The IDF tank and aircraft attacked two Hamas military posts in Gaza in response to a short-ranged attack near the border on Friday according to the IDF. There are no known casualties.   All crossings to the West Bank and Gaza were closed to […]

Greenblatt: Peace plan doesn’t include giving Sinai to Gaza

US envoy rejects reports that peace plan will include giving a portion of the Sinai Peninsula to Gaza: Don’t believe everything you read. Elad Benari, Canada, 19/04/19 Jason Greenblatt, the US Representative for International Negotiations, on Friday rejected reports that the Trump administration’s peace plan will include giving a portion of the Sinai Peninsula to […]

U.S. and Turkey “closer” to solving S-400 issue – U.S. Acting Defense Sec.

The United States and Turkey are closer to a solution for their S-400 disagreement, acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan told reporters after welcoming Albanian Minister Of Defence Olta Xhaçka to the Pentagon. Washington Times reported; Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan struck an optimistic tone on whether the U.S. and Turkey could reach common ground regarding the S-400 […]

What’s So Good About ”Good Friday”? – by Jack Kinsella

According to Christian tradition, the Friday before Easter is called ”Good Friday” because it is the day that Jesus Christ was crucified. GOOD Friday? The Crucifixion most probably did not actually take place on a Friday, anyway. The Scriptures make reference only to the ‘Sabbath’ and there were two Sabbath days during that particular Passover week. But it is on Friday that the world remembers, whether it wants to or not, that a Man was crucified on a hill called Golgotha outside the walls of Jerusalem for the sins of mankind. If the world wants to remember it as a …

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French ambassador to US: Israel becoming an apartheid state

i24NEWS Latest Revision 19 April 2019, 14:47 (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) France’s Ambassador to the United States Gérard Araud. Ambassador Gérard Araud said the US peace plan is almost certainly doomed to fail Israel will become an apartheid state, outgoing French ambassador to the United States told the Atlantic in an interview published on Friday where he […]