QUICK READS Jared Kushner will be a passenger on first commercial flight between Israel and UAE

AUGUST 26, 2020 3:12 PM JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jared Kushner will be aboard when the first commercial flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates takes off next week. Monday’s flight will carry an Israeli delegation as well as Kushner, the White House senior adviser; U.S. Middle East peace negotiator Avi Berkowitz; and National Security Adviser […]

Israel Demands Improved Access for UN Peacekeepers to Hezbollah-Controlled Areas in Southern Lebanon

 by Algemeiner Staff Following a shooting incident on its northern border on Tuesday night, Israel is demanding that the UN Security Council make major changes to the mandate of the international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. The UNFIL mandate is up for its annual renewal by the Security Council at the end of this month. […]

Israeli diplomat confirms Turkey giving citizenship to Hamas members

Roey Gilad says a dozen members of terror group have received, or are in process of receiving, Turkish passports By TOI staff Today, 11:32 pm An Israeli diplomat on Wednesday confirmed reports that Turkey is granting citizenship to a dozen members of the Hamas terrorist group. “Some are in the process, some already got (the documents), […]

Netanyahu warns Hezbollah: Don’t test crushing force of Israel

August 26, 2020 Netanyahu to Hezbollah: Don’t try us – we will respond strongly to any attack. By Paul Shindman, World Israel News Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning to the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon Wednesday after gunfire from Lebanon struck an IDF post overnight. “Israel views with utmost gravity the shooting […]

Netanyahu, Putin agree to continue coordination in Syria

LAHAV HARKOV AUGUST 26, 2020 12:55 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to continue coordinating to allow for Israeli airstrikes in Syria, in a phone conversation on Monday. “I talked to [Putin] about Syria and ensuring the air force’s freedom to act in that area. It’s very important for Israeli security,” […]

Israel cannot protect UAE, normalization threatens region security: Iranian commander

2020-08-25 /* custom css */ .td_uid_4_5f45a68067203_rand.td-a-rec-img { text-align: left; } .td_uid_4_5f45a68067203_rand.td-a-rec-img img { margin: 0 auto 0 0; } BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:45 P.M.) – The Deputy Commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Muhammad Hijazi, said on Tuesday, that Israel is unable to protect itself and cannot buy and bring […]

Will Sudan normalize ties with Israel despite dissenting voices?

i24NEWS August 26, 2020, 01:46 AM Sudanese Cabinet via APUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stands with Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the head of the ruling sovereign council, in Khartoum, Sudan, on Aug. 25, 2020. As Pompeo lands in Khartoum, Sudanese journalist tells i24NEWS: ‘Sooner or later, it will happen’ As the landmark Israel-UAE peace […]

This West Bank Land Is Not ‘Palestinian’

by Sean Durns OPINION The community of Beit El in Judea and Samaria. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. “Who can challenge the rights of the Jews in Palestine?” Yusuf al-Khalidi wrote to the chief rabbi of France on March 1, 1899. “Good Lord, historically it really is your country.” Yet, more than a century after Khalidi’s admission, the Jewish […]

What is Europe Funding?

JNS News Service6 Elul 5780 – August 26, 2020 {Reposted from the JNS website} Last month, Israel’s Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee discussed the issue of Palestinian takeovers of land in Area C through building in strategic places and agricultural takeovers, which are directed and funded by European governments. Europe is also funding the […]

Jordan, Egypt, Iraq summit stresses coordination, Palestinian issues

Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi “reaffirmed the centrality of the Palestinian cause.” JERUSALEM POST STAFF AUGUST 26, 2020 09:21 Regional coordination and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict were the central topics at a trilateral summit between Jordan, Egypt and Iraq on Tuesday. Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Iraqi Prime […]

What is Europe Funding?

By JNS News Service6 Elul 5780 – August 26, 2020 Photo Credit: courtesy, Regavim   Palestinian Authority builds illegal school with European Union funding in Nahal Machoch Nature Reserve on Israeli state land, Nov 19 2019 {Reposted from the JNS website} Last month, Israel’s Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee discussed the issue of Palestinian […]

Russia and Iran’s Dangerous Energy Gambit in the Caucasus

by Irina Tsukerman     Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir Putin of Russia pose for a picture after a news conference during their meeting in Ankara, Turkey, September 16, 2019. Photo: Pavel Golovkin/Pool via REUTERS. After Armenia’s attack on Azerbaijan’s borders on July 12, a flurry of speculative articles […]