Saudis Plan Big Oil Output Hike, Beginning All-Out Price War

By Javier Blas and Anthony Dipaola March 7, 2020, 5:55 PM EST Saudi Arabia plans to increase oil output next month, going well above 10 million barrels a day, as the kingdom responds aggressively to the collapse of its OPEC+ alliance with Russia. The world’s largest oil exporter started a price war on Saturday by […]

Kushner: US to approve Israeli annexation if Palestinians don’t negotiate

“Nobody can say we didn’t give the Palestinians a chance to go back to the table. If they want to talk, we are ready.” AARON REICH MARCH 8, 2020 01:27 Despite a refusal by the Palestinians to be involved in any negotiations and a lack of government in Israel, US President Donald Trump’s administration will […]

Putin Dumps MBS to Start a War on America’s Shale Oil Industry

At 10:16 a.m. on a wet and dreary Friday morning, Russia’s energy minister walked into OPEC’s headquarters in central Vienna knowing his boss was ready to turn the global oil market upside down. Alexander Novak told his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman that Russia was unwilling to cut oil production further. The Kremlin […]

Lebanon files complaint about Israel to UN Security Council

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations (UN) Security Council against repeated Israeli violations to Lebanon’s sovereignty and airspace, Quds Press reported. Lebanese foreign minister, Nacif Hitti, issued the complaint to the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubitsch, during the latter’s visit to Beirut. Both officials discussed the latest developments in […]

Israeli officials in US for talks on ICC war crimes threat

  The US and Israel are not members of the ICC, and US President Donald Trump’s administration has backed Israel in its battle against the court. TOVAH LAZAROFF MARCH 7, 2020 22:05 The US and Israel are coordinating their responses to the threat both countries face against the possibility of war crimes suits before the […]

Three short of majority, Netanyahu says he won election, is ‘not going anywhere’

At ’emergency meeting,’ PM accuses Blue and White, Yisrael Beytenu of trying to steal vote with bill to disqualify him: ‘Even in Iran, they don’t ban you after elections’ Today, 7:45 pm Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday evening held an “emergency gathering” in which he accused his rivals in the Blue and White and […]

Gantz: The people have spoken, it is the end of Netanyahu’s rule

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF MARCH 7, 2020 19:51 Blue and White leader Benny Gantz said on Saturday evening that the people have spoke and it is “the end of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s rule.” “We will not you encourage hate,” Gantz said, speaking directly to Netanyahu. “The incitement is going overboard, and you are silent.”This […]

Netanyahu: Public will take revenge Blue and White

Gantz accuses Netanyahu of inciting against him. GIL HOFFMAN MARCH 7, 2020 19:44 The public will take revenge against those who break their campaign promises and trample democracy with retroactive legislation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday night in Petah Tikva in what he called an “emergency rally to stop the creation of a […]

Fatah leader arrested for casting doubt on Abbas’s mental health

Last week Abbas denounced the physicians’ strike as a “despicable” act and said he does not have money to meet their demands. KHALED ABU TOAMEH MARCH 7, 2020 15:56 PA President Mahmoud Abbas in cairo on Janurary 31 2020 A senior Fatah official who called into question the mental health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud […]

Senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria: Fars

DUBAI (Reuters) – A senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Dabirian, was “martyred” in Syria on Friday, Fars news agency reported, without giving details of how he died. The agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, described Dabirian as a “defender of Sayida Zainab shrine,” the holy Shi’ite Muslim site south of Damascus, […]

Saudi Arabia detains two senior royals, including king’s brother – sources

Saudi Arabia detained the king’s bother, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, and the king’s nephew, Mohammed bin Nayef. REUTERS MARCH 7, 2020 09:09 Saudi Arabia has detained two senior members of the Saudi royal family – Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s nephew, two sources with […]

Kushner Briefs Senators on Trump Mideast Peace Plan

by JNS.org JNS.org – White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner briefed a bipartisan group of senators in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee behind closed doors on Tuesday about the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan, reported Axios, which cited White House officials. Kushner said the international reaction to the vision, officially called “Peace to […]

The coronavirus panic has shaken up Israel

In Context: Generally unflappable in crisis, panic atacks take hold HERB KEINON MARCH 5, 2020 21:38 What the suicide bus bombings of the Second Intifada could not do in five years, what tens of thousands of rockets from Gaza failed to do in a decade, what the US killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem […]

Prophets, priests, Jewish kings: Ancient Yemen made vivid in Jerusalem exhibit

Bible Lands Museum tells the story of Jews in south Arabia, where they once ruled, made war, traded spice with Rome and longed for the Holy Land Aviva and Shmuel Bar-AmToday, 9:54 am Before the Babylonians destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in 586 BCE, the prophet Jeremiah predicted its doom. Some Yemenite Jews believe that tens […]