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Barak Ravid The Trump administration is threatening to veto a resolution to extend the UN’s long-standing peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon if its mandate isn’t changed, Israeli and U.S. officials tell me. Why it matters: The U.S. is the main funder of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which has an annual budget of […]
The UAE has attempted to increase its stature as a result of this deal, portraying itself as helping to halt annexation plans by Israel. SETH J. FRANTZMAN AUGUST 13, 2020 22:02 The United Arab Emirates stands to increase its influence in the Middle East in the wake of the deal announced with Israel on Thursday. […]
Touting ‘full and formal peace’ with advanced, innovative Gulf nation, PM says Israelis will soon be flying direct to Abu Dhabi; insists annexation plan is only temporarily halted By Raoul Wootliff Today, 9:41 pm 4 Edit Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israel’s political correspondent. Announcing details of the historic agreement for […]
by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will not secure peace in the region, tweeted a special adviser on international affairs to the speaker of Iran’s parliament, in reaction to a Thursday deal between the two states on normalizing ties. “UAE’s new approach for normalizing ties w/fake, criminal #Israel […]
Published: 08.13.20 , 23:11 Iraq’s Security Media Cell announced on Thursday three Katyusha rockets had fallen into Iraq’s Balad airbase, 80 km (50 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, which houses U.S. forces but caused no casualties or losses.A number of rocket and mortar attacks have hit bases hosting coalition forces and landed near the […]
As Jerusalem and DC hail historic agreement on normalization, leaders of the Gulf nation portray that aspect as secondary to keeping two-state option alive Raphael AhrenToday, 9:29 pm As it announced groundbreaking plans to normalize relations with Israel Thursday, in a move that opened it up to intense criticism by Palestinians and their supporters, the […]
‘This will allow Israelis to visit the UAE and share our daily experience of tolerance and pluralism,’ cheers community leader Ross Kriel By Raphael Ahren Today, 11:53 pm 0 Edit The small Jewish community of the United Arab Emirates on Thursday welcomed the historic agreement between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi to formalize relations, praising […]
Khaled Abu ToamehAugust 13, 2020 at 5:00 am The prospect of Jews praying inside a synagogue in an Arab country seems to worry Palestinian Muslim figures more than the killing and wounding of thousands of Muslims and Christians in last week’s huge explosion at the port of the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Against this Palestinian […]
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:20 P.M.) – The Cypriot media announced the arrival of two French Rafale fighters, in addition to a C-130H support plane, to the island of Cyprus, in what they said was a French message addressed to Turkey. The “Defense-Point.Gr” news portal, which specializes in military affairs in Greek, said that France, by sending […]
Fatima was the prophet Muhammad’s daughter from his first wife, Khadija. Muhammad married Fatima off to his cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib, the founder and first imam of the Shiite branch of Islam. One of their sons was Hussein, who was decapitated by the Umayyad Caliph Yazid’s army in Karbala in 680 CE. To this […]
by Edy Cohen Pictures of Lebanon’s assassinated former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri are seen at his grave site in downtown Beirut on January 16, 2014. Photo: REUTERS/Sharif Karim. The explosion expected to occur in Lebanon on August 18 will not shatter glass and destroy buildings. It will be a legal and political explosion […]
Nohad Machnouk is the first senior Lebanese politician to openly blame the Jewish state by Alison Tahmizian Meuse August 13, 2020 This picture taken on August 7 shows a blown-up ship that was thrown onto the land at Beirut port three days before by a massive blast that shook the Lebanese capital. Photo: Joseph Eid […]
Jerusalem kept mostly silent on the crisis building up in recent months. LAHAV HARKOV AUGUST 12, 2020 20:11 Israel voiced its support for Greece in their dispute with Turkey over economic zones in the eastern Mediterranean. The Foreign Ministry released a rare declarative statement that “Israel follows closely as tension arises in the Eastern Mediterranean. […]
Turkey set itself on a collision course with Egypt, Greece and Europe over its new claims. SETH J. FRANTZMAN AUGUST 11, 2020 16:09 Turkey’s current leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan creates a crisis every month with different countries as a way to fan nationalism and religious extremism at home and distract from mishandling of […]