Day: January 21, 2020
Additional US soldiers leave Iraq for treatment after Iran missile attack
The number of service members requiring treatment could increase in coming days. JERUSALEM POST STAFF JANUARY 22, 2020 02:49 U.S. soldiers inspect the site where an Iranian missile hit at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq January 13, 2020 (photo credit: REUTERS/JOHN DAVISON) Additional US soldiers were transported out of Iraq for medical […]
US team meets Mideast officials to discuss peace plan rollout
The United States’s peace team is currently attending the World Economic Forum in Davos before traveling to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (photo credit: US EMBASSY) WASHINGTON – The United States’s peace team – Jared Kushner, senior adviser to the president; Avi Berkowitz, special representative […]
New Cabinet announced in Lebanon
New Cabinet announced in Lebanon following months-long impasse and amid ongoing mass protests. Elad Benari, 22/01/20 A new Cabinet was announced in crisis-hit Lebanon late on Tuesday, breaking a months-long impasse amid ongoing mass protests against the country’s ruling elite, The Associated Press reported. Hassan Diab, a 60-year-old professor at the American University of Beirut, […]
Trump, Putin, pope vow to fight anti-Semitism in collection of missives
New book and film containing letters from over 40 world leaders, including those who pulled out of Jerusalem commemoration, to be released Wednesday Dozens of world leaders, including the heads of state of the United States, Germany, Russia and France, declare their commitment to battle anti-Semitism in a book and film set to be released […]
Nazila Golestan: Israel’s destruction is a foundation of Iranian ideology
Iranian born Jewish activist says that Iran is today ‘officially’ antisemitic, and eliminating Israel has become an official state policy Nitsan Keidar, Poland, 21/01/20 04:38 Nazila Golestan EJA Video Nazila Golestan, the Special Envoy for Human Rights at the Iran National Council for Free Elections, spoke at the EJA symposium on 75th anniversary […]
In-Depth:The Events That Led Up To The Successful Targeted Killing Of Qasem Soleimani
The sequence of events that led to the ability to “close-the-kill-loop” regarding the pre-emptive targeted killing / elimination / liquidation of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and his right-hand man in Iraq. (Mahdi al-Muhandis) From the intelligence collection phase conducted by American forces ;flight plans, armed Hezbollah escorts, the fateful flight to Baghdad, the deployment of a […]
New Quds Force deputy is Iran’s missile man in Lebanon
Mohammad Hejazi led IRGC forces in Lebanon and worked with Hezbollah to improve precision guidance. SETH J. FRANTZMAN JANUARY 22, 2020 00:21 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Quds Force has a new deputy commander and he was the key to Hezbollah’s precision missile project. Mohammed Hejazi was previously a high ranking IRGC commander, a suppressor of […]
3 Gazans infiltrate into Israel, attack IDF troops, are shot
Three Palestinians are shot after they crossed the border into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip and threw an explosive at Israeli troops, the military says. The conditions of the three men are not immediately known. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the three men entered Israeli territory from the southern Gaza Strip, going to […]
Hamas chief to remain outside Gaza for months, his deputy says
Ismail Haniyeh’s visit to Iran after the killing of Qassem Soleimani sparked tensions with Egypt, which controls Gaza’s only non-Israeli border AFPToday, 7:46 pm The leader of Hamas won’t be returning to the Gaza Strip for up to a year, a senior official from the terror group said Tuesday. Ismail Haniyeh left Gaza in December […]
US officials say white supremacists hoped Virginia rally would start civil war
Federal charges say The Base member Patrik Mathews caught on tape urging killing people, poisoning water supplies, derailing trains; Monday rally ended peacefully Michael KunzelmanToday, 11:17 pm COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) — A hidden camera captured members of a violent white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this […]
Trump admin plans to add Nigeria and six other nations to travel ban list
REUTERS JANUARY 21, 2020 23:33 The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries – Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania – to its travel ban list, U.S. media reports said on Tuesday. Some countries will face bans only on some visa categories, the Wall Street Journal reported. The list of countries was […]
2 The Believer’s Position in Christ
Paul’s apostolic authority confirmed and God the author of salvation, God the Father and the perfector, our Lord Jesus Christ. “Grace” expresses God’s steadfast unmerited love toward man and “peace” shows the relational state as a result of that grace. In other words after one believes by the Grace of God the peace of God […]
North Korea says won’t be bound by nuclear testing pledge
JANUARY 21, 2020 14:40 GENEVA – North Korea on Tuesday said that as the United States had ignored its year-end deadline for nuclear talks, it no longer felt bound by commitments, which included a halt to its nuclear testing and the firing of inter-continental ballistic missiles. “We found no reason to be unilaterally bound any […]