Trump Just Gave Israel the Ability to Attack Iran’s Nuclear Sites with F-35s

  March 4, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: IranF-35MilitaryIsrael The U.S. State Department has approved an Israeli request to buy eight KC-46A Pegasus aerial tankers. by Michael Peck If Israel does decide to bomb Iran, the U.S. government has made it a little easier. The U.S. State Department has approved an Israeli request […]

Trump sends Pompeo to sign US-Taliban peace deal in Qatar

Bob Fredericks February 28, 2020 | 4:45pm President Trump on Friday said he was sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Qatar Saturday to sign a US-Taliban peace deal that he predicted could mean the end of the 19-year-old war and that American troops could come home. “At my direction, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]

50 former European leaders, foreign ministers condemn Trump Mideast plan

US proposal’s ‘outcome has characteristics similar to apartheid – a term we don’t use lightly,’ ex-politicians and diplomats say By TOI staff Today, 1:56 pm   Fifty former European leaders and foreign ministers have signed an open letter expressing “grave concern” over US President Donald Trump’s plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The letter, published in The […]

Israel slams Sanders for hint at returning embassy to Tel Aviv

FM Katz condemns ‘horrifying comment’ by presidential candidate during Democratic debate in which the Jewish Vermont senator also called Netanyahu a ‘reactionary racist’; there’s not a Jew in the world who ‘hasn’t dreamed of Jerusalem,” minister says Associated PressPublished: Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday lashed out at Jewish presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders for what […]

Iran Cleric Blames Trump For Coronavirus Outbreak In Religious City

The Friday Prayer Imam of the religious city of Qom, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak in Iran, told his congregation Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump targeted the city with coronavirus “to damage its culture and honor”. Most of the coronavirus cases in Iran include people living in Qom and those who have visited the […]

Finally Dealing With ‘Refugees’

by Lyn Julius / JNS.org     Jewish refugees from Iraq arriving in Israel, 1951. Photo: GPO. JNS.org – Commentators and Middle East experts have now had a few weeks to scrutinize the Trump peace plan, whether to praise it or bury it. Many have dwelt on what the plan offers Palestinians in terms of […]

Woman lightly injured in stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City

Tensions remain high following release of Trump’s Deal of the Century ANNA AHRONHEIM FEBRUARY 22, 2020 13:14   An Israeli woman was lightly injured during an attempted stabbing attack near the Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday morning. According to the police a Palestinian man was shot and killed after he ran towards […]

Donald Trump’s plan for Israel’s security

The security-based essence of the plan has been one of the fundamentals of Israel’s security doctrine since repelling aggression in the Six Day War. ZALMAN SHOVAL FEBRUARY 17, 2020 22:22 President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” is arguably the most important statement pertaining to Israel’s political position since the United Nations partition plan of 1947 […]

Trump, Turkey call for Russia to stop backing Syrian ‘atrocities’

After conversation with Erdogan, Trump urges Moscow-backed Syrian regime forces to end attacks on Idlib region, where Turkey has 12 observation posts AFPToday, 6:35 am WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has called for Russia to end its support for the Syrian regime’s “atrocities” as he expressed US concern over violence in the Idlib region, […]

Iran’s Rouhani Says Tehran Will Never Yield to US Pressure for Talks

 by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at the Kuala Lumpur Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 19, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Lim Huey Teng. Iran will never hold talks with the United States under pressure, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, adding that Tehran’s help is essential in establishing security in […]