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By Sam Sokol January 13, 2020 3:11 pm JERUSALEM (JTA) — On March 17, 1992, a suicide bomber drove a truck into the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuries hundreds of others. Two years later, in the same city, on July 18, 1994, another bomber drove a truck into the AMIA Jewish […]
Reuters | Published: 01.13.20 President Donald Trump clearly had authority to kill Qassem Soleimani, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Monday, adding that the White House consulted with his department before the strike on the Iranian commander. Barr told reporters that Soleimani was a “legitimate military target” and the strike was a “legitimate act […]
Published: 01.13.20 , 22:40 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday he expected the Senate would debate a war powers resolution soon, although he did not provide a more specific timeline.”I expect the Senate will soon debate Senator (Tim) Kaine’s war powers resolution,” McConnell said in the Senate, adding that he would strongly […]
Ex-US Special Envoy to the Middle East speaks about his time as a negotiator, says conversations with ordinary Arabs gave him hope for peace Josefin Dolsten/JTA, 13/01/20 22:47 Jason Greenblatt FLASH90 Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former Middle East negotiator, made his first public speech since leaving the White House on Sunday […]
Abdullah II blames Jewish state’s prolonged ‘electioneering season’ for impasse; refuses to detail Amman’s possible response to potential West Bank annexation By Michael Bachner Today, 12:54 pm 1 Edit Jordan’s King Abdullah II said in an interview published Monday that the Hashemite Kingdom’s relationship with Israel “has been on pause for the past two years,” […]
In far-ranging interview, Fatou Bensouda responds to what she calls ‘character assassination’; says she ‘fondly’ remembers her 1998 trip to Israel, hopes to be able to visit again The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court this week shot back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who last month accused her of “pure anti-Semitism” for seeking […]
by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff A demonstration in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 11, 2020. Photo: Nazanin Tabatabaee / WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters. Protesters took to the streets of Iran for a third day on Monday, expressing outrage over the authorities’ admission that they had shot down a passenger plane by accident during a […]
Middle East expert Efraim Inbar: The Iranians reserve the right to retaliate in the future, but the US has an extensive list of targets. 13/01/20 05:00 The question of the Iranian response to the elimination of Qassem Soleimani by the Americans has not yet been fully answered. In an interview with Arutz Sheva on Sunday, […]
Soeren KernJanuary 13, 2020 at 5:00 am The bilateral agreement between Turkey and Libya — which establishes a new Turkey-Libya economic zone that the EastMed pipeline would now have to cross — appears aimed at giving Turkey more leverage over the project. “The recent Turkey-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on the delimitation of maritime jurisdictions in […]
And it has the nuclear triad. Kyle Mizokami Key point: The country will likely not declare itself a nuclear power any time soon; ambiguity over ownership of nukes has served the country very well. In a private email leaked to the public in September of 2016, former secretary of state and retired U.S. Army general Colin […]
World 12:48 13.01.2020 by Svetlana Ekimenko Previously, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to warn the Iranian authorities against “killing protesters” and tweeted his support for the demonstrations sparked by Tehran’s unintentional downing of a Ukrainian jet amid spiralling US-Iran tensions. Police in the Iranian capital did not fire on protesters and officers have been […]
A supporter of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah wears the words “powerful revenge” on her hand, ahead of the leader’s televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The placard in her other hand depicts Soleimaini and […]
Created on Monday, 13 January 2020 09:37 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the parties concerned to implement the amended “reciprocal response law” to Washington’s decision to place Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on the US terrorism list. The Iranian News Agency IRNA reported that the law provides for the classification of the US Central Command “Centcom” […]
‘We’re not timing anything based on domestic politics’ of the two sides, says Robert O’Brien, confirming Israeli reports that Trump administration may release proposal within weeks TOI staffToday, 10:22 am A top White House official has said US President Donald Trump’s administration will not necessarily wait until after Israel’s March 2 elections to release its […]