Israel and Lebanon to meet twice this week for maritime talks — ministry

Second and third round of negotiations between enemies on solving offshore border to take place on Wednesday and Thursday in border town of Naqoura By TOI staff and Agencies Today, 10:48 pm 0 Edit Israeli and Lebanese officials will meet on Wednesday for the second round of rare talks aimed at settling a maritime border […]

Egypt worried about Hamas-Turkey close ties

Egypt has demanded that Turkey stay away from issues the Egyptians are dealing with, including efforts to end the dispute between Hamas and the Palestinian ruling Fatah faction. KHALED ABU TOAMEH OCTOBER 27, 2020 13:08 Egypt has expressed reservations about Hamas’s close ties with Turkey. The Egyptian stance was relayed to Hamas officials who arrived […]

France warns citizens to be cautious as anger seethes in Muslim world

“It is recommended to exercise the greatest vigilance, especially while traveling, and in places that are frequented by tourists or expatriate communities,” it said. By REUTERS OCTOBER 27, 2020 13:05 France warned its citizens living or traveling in several Muslim-majority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the […]

Is Turkey Forever Destined to be an Adversary of the State of Israel?

Rachel Avraham9 Heshvan 5781 – October 27, 2020 In recent days, France recalled their envoy to Turkey, after Turkey’s President Recep Tayip Erdogan questioned the French president’s mental health for taking a strong stance against Islamist separatists, who recently beheaded a teacher who showed students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammed.  According to the Times […]

The Israel-Sudan Agreement Is Bad News for Hamas

by Yoni Ben Menachem / JNS.org JNS.org – Hamas is very concerned about the normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel. Sudan, a Sunni Muslim state, has for many years been a convenient setting for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and a vital smuggling route for weapons from Iran into the Gaza Strip because of […]

As Turkey’s Lira Tumbles, Erdogan Pursues Neo-Ottoman Visions

by Yaakov LappinOpinion As Turkey’s lira sunk to a record low last Thursday, and the Turkish economy, hit hard by the coronavirus, attempts to bounce back, the Islamist government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pursues an increasingly daring neo-Ottoman policy throughout the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Turkey has become the state leader of […]

Mladenov: PA at risk of economic collapse unless ties with Israel renewed

Mladenov: PA at risk of economic collapse unless ties with Israel renewed UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov urged Israel to lift some of its restrictions on the movement of goods and people between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. By TOVAH LAZAROFF OCTOBER 27, 2020 10:14 The Palestinians […]

How Turkey manufactured a ‘crisis’ with France over ‘cartoons’

The way Ankara invented this crisis is similar to other manufactured crises pushed by Turkey’s far-right government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. SETH J. FRANTZMAN OCTOBER 27, 2020 09:56 Turkey has sought to leverage a crisis that Ankara largely invented with France to push its influence in the Islamic world by portraying Ankara as a “defender” […]

Report: 7 Al Qaeda leaders killed in Syria airstrike

US military says it believes seven senior leaders of Al Qaeda terrorist group were eliminated in drone airstrike in northwest Syria. Arutz Sheva Staff , 27/10/20 07:43 The US military now believes that seven senior leaders of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization were killed in a recent US airstrike in northwestern Syria, the US Central […]

UAE lawmaker: ‘Hamas and the PA are both corrupt and murderers’

“Now the anger towards the UAE, from both the PA and Hamas, has been created because we have stopped paying. We want to pay and we will pay the people. Not Hamas and the PA.” SARAH CHEMLA OCTOBER 27, 2020 07:04 In an interview conducted by Adi Kopelwitz, the i24NEWS Middle East correspondent, Dherar Belhoul […]

Qatar to deliver aid to Gaza in two instalments , report

Published: 10.27.20 , 08:18 Qatar will deliver the monthly monetary aid for families in need, to Hamas in Gaza in two installments the Lebanese Al Akhbar news paper reports. Qatar announced earlier this month that it will keep its funding of the Gaza Strip through 2021.    

US hits Iran’s oil sector with further sanctions

Treasury Department designates 3 state entities under a counterterrorism authority, making it more difficult for a potential Biden administration to reverse move AFPToday, 10:34 pm WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday slapped fresh sanctions on Iran’s oil sector, including over sales to Syria and Venezuela, reducing Joe Biden’s room for maneuver, if […]

Cracks in Turkish-Russian ties begin to show

Mistrust instead of the spirit of mutually beneficial political cooperation is guiding current relations between Ankara and Moscow. Oct 23, 2020 Turkish-Russian ties are following a different trajectory today to what they were a year ago when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was promoting the notion of a strategic relationship in the making. Developments in the […]