Confirmed: Pompeo to visit Israel next week

State Department confirms Secretary of State will travel to Israel on May 13 and meet Netanyahu and Gantz. Elad Benari, Canada , 08/05/20 20:00 The US State Department confirmed on Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Israel on May 13. According to the statement, Pompeo will meet with Prime Minister Binyamin […]

The tools that prepare Israel for the future war

How multidimensional joint operations, lessons from past wars and new technologies have transformed Israel’s army, navy and air force. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MAY 7, 2020 16:35 ‘We get up in the morning with one mission,” says a lieutenant-colonel in Israel’s air force. “From north to south, in combination with the ground forces, the mission […]

Hamas demanding release of Barghouti and Sa’adat in prisoner swap

Maher Obeid, member of the Hamas ‘political bureau,’ said that any prisoner swap must include ‘all the symbols, from Marwan Barghouti to Ahmad Sa’adat.’ By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, TOVAH LAZAROFF MAY 7, 2020 19:52 Hamas is demanding the release of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Secretary-General Ahmed Sa’adat […]

Iran leaving Syria? Not so fast, says US Syria envoy

Reports from Israel last week indicated that some believe Iran is reducing its role. SETH J. FRANTZMAN MAY 8, 2020 23:23 US Special Representative for Syria engagement threw cold water on reports that Iran might be reducing its role in Syria. Speaking on Thursday US Ambassador James Jeffrey said that the US has not seen […]

US Says Russia is Working With Syria’s Assad to Move Militia to Libya

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attends an interview with a Greek newspaper in Damascus, in this handout released May 10, 2018. Photo: SANA / Handout via Reuters / File. The United States does not support the offensive of Libya’s eastern-based military leader Khalifa Haftar against Tripoli and believes Russia is working with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad […]

US won’t provide support to Lebanon’s Health Ministry because it’s ‘run by Hezbollah’

News Desk2020-05-08 “Hezbollah is an enormous factor in this government and it is a Hezbollah-backed government,” Schenker said. “We are not giving money to the Lebanese Ministry of Health because it is run by Hezbollah,” he continued. Schenker’s claim that Hezbollah is running the Health Ministry is due to the new government’s appointment of Dr. […]

Benjamin Netanyahu suggests microchipping kids, slammed by experts

“If the information with the kids’ location is uploaded to the internet, a pedophile with some cyber knowledge may invade the system and stalk them,” cyber expert Einat Meron said. LEON SVERDLOV MAY 8, 2020 14:46 Cyber experts slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his proposal to “microchip” children who return to schools and kindergartens […]

Turkey re-opens border with Iran, wants to boost trade – analysis

Health protocols relating to the coronavirus pandemic will be put in place to deal with he new traffic. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MAY 8, 2020 10:45 Iran’s Tasnim news says that the land border with Turkey at Bazargan has re-opened to allow 60 trucks a day to cross. Iran has been suffering under sanctions, but […]

Israel still suffers virus of hate even as it saves Arab lives

May 8, 2020 While countries around the world struggle to get on top of the Covid-19 crisis, Israel’s achievement so far has been remarkable. Its mortality rate from the virus has been vastly smaller, in proportion to its population, than the rate in countries such as Britain, Sweden or the United States. That’s largely because […]

Russian Armed Forces May Get First Next-Generation S-500 Missile Systems in 2021

Earlier this year, Pavel Sozinov, general designer at the Russian defence concern Almaz-Antey, touted the S-500 as a missile system that is capable of intercepting targets located hundreds of kilometres above the Earth. The Russian Armed Forces may get the first advanced S-500 missile systems next year, the country’s Deputy Defence Minister Alexei Krivoruchko has said […]

Pakistani cleric: Jews are responsible for creation of coronavirus

Mufti Abu Hisham Masood, a Pakistani Islamist a cleric affiliated with the the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, declared Thursday that Jews created the coronavirus. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF MAY 8, 2020 04:02 Mufti Abu Hisham Masood, a Pakistani Islamist a cleric affiliated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) movement of the Taliban in […]

Putin Tries to Destabilize and Cripple US With Oil Prices — and the Saudis Go Along

On February 6, 2020, OPEC held a meeting in Vienna to try and reach an agreement on oil prices and production levels. The meeting ended without agreement following Russia’s refusal to slash production, even if this meant a further drop in prices already depressed by the beginning of the coronavirus crisis. Russia’s obstinacy was curious, […]

Iran Regime Pledges Annual ‘Quds Day’ Urging Israel’s Destruction Will Go Ahead, Despite Coronavirus

The Iranian regime’s annual day of rallies and demonstrations calling for the destruction of the State of Israel will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic. According to Press TV — the Iranian regime’s English-language propaganda arm — “pro-Palestinian groups in London and elsewhere across Britain plan to replace street rallies with online events to […]

Israel’s Incoherent Strategy in Syria

Jerusalem Post, 8/5 A significant uptick in Israeli action against Iranian targets in Syria has taken place in recent weeks, according to regional and international media. In the latest moves, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 14 Iranian and Iraqi fighters were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli raid on positions close to […]