Day: February 5, 2021
In first, Saudi paper prints op-ed by Israelis — on Erdogan’s private militias
Fellows at Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security pen analysis of Turkish leader’s proxy armies, based on joint research with a UAE think tank By Lazar Berman Today, 6:52 am In the latest sign of changes rippling across the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s most widely read English newspaper on Thursday published an op-ed by Israelis […]
Obama’s third term
Israel scarcely needs the absence of a phone call to tell it that it has a grave problem with the new occupant of the White House. Opinion. Melanie Phillips , Feb 05 , 2021 12:20 PM The White House iStock (JNS) Some people are fretting that U.S. President Joe Biden has not yet picked up […]
French PM: Israel, Saudis must be involved in new talks on Iran nuclear deal
US National Security Council said set to hold urgent meeting on Tehran’s nuclear program, as Macron offers to be ‘honest broker’ in negotiations TOI staffToday, 11:40 am French President Emmanuel Macron offered Thursday night to be an “honest broker” in talks between the United States and Iran in order to revive the 2015 nuclear accord. […]
Al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen under arrest: UN report
i24NEWS – AFP February 05, 2021, 02:45 AM Al-Malahem Media/AFPAl-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP jihadists arriving for a meeting at an undisclosed location in Yemen on April 16, 2014. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula linked to 2015 attack on the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo The leader of Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate has been under […]
US Senate approves amendment to keep embassy in Jerusalem
The amendment was put forward by Republican Senators Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee. By TOVAH LAZAROFF FEBRUARY 5, 2021 10:12 The United States Senate voted 97-3 late Thursday to support an amendment to the COVID-19 budget resolution that affirmed the country’s intention to keep its embassy in Jerusalem. It was put […]