TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arabic-language spokesperson on Sunday said he had received several messages of support from Iraqi citizens during the recent Palestinian uprising over Temple Mount.
TEL AVIV — Social media users from across the Arab world, including journalists and politicians, have been celebrating what they characterized as a major victory for the Palestinians at the Temple Mount after Israel decided to remove all security arrangements at the various entrances to the complex.
Palestinian envoy to the United Nations Riyad H. Mansour justified the brutal murder of three members of an Israeli Jewish family last Friday, in comments earlier this week at the UN.
The head of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah called Israel’s removal of metal detectors from Temple Mount entrances a “victory” in a televised speech Wednesday, even as Muslim leaders have said that the move is not enough and vowed to continue protests.
Security measures implemented by Israel at the Temple Mount after the recent terrorist attack there in which two policemen were killed are not a “political issue,” but rather are about “saving people’s lives,” the Jewish state’s deputy foreign minister said in a BBC interview this week.
TEL AVIV – The World Council of Churches (WCC) officially endorsed the Palestinian “campaign for Jerusalem,” saying that Israel’s recent move installing additional security measures at the Temple Mount following a terror attack there was a “corrosive act in the midst of an already-fragile peace.”
More than two dozen Palestinians were wounded in fresh clashes that broke out on Sunday night in Jerusalem and the West Bank as Palestinians continued to protest against new security measures at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
After massive protests in Jerusalem resulted in six deaths and at least 200 wounded, Pope Francis issued a call to moderation and dialogue.
Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American anti-Israel activist who helped organize the nationwide Women’s March the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, called for “jihad” against the Trump administration last weekend.
TEL AVIV – The United Church of Christ (UCC) overwhelmingly approved a resolution this week claiming Israel mistreats Palestinian children and called on the U.S. to suspend military assistance to the Jewish state.
Israelis are pessimistic about the prospects for renewed peace talks with the Palestinians, despite US President Donald Trump’s stated goal of brokering a deal, a new poll published on Wednesday found.
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tipi Hotovely issued a warning Monday to countries participating in a United Nations effort to classify a Jewish holy site as “Palestinian” that they risked participating in “fake history” and aggravating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton talked about the death of American student Otto Warmbier, recently released from more than a year of captivity in North Korea, most of which he spent in a coma. He also discussed what Warmbier’s death means for America’s North Korea policy moving forward. Bolton then looked at the one-year anniversary of the Brexit vote and U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon lashed out at comments made by former special envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi during a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, in which Brahimi quoted a Palestinian woman describing Gaza as a concentration camp.
TEL AVIV – With the endorsement of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, lawmakers on Sunday submitted a proposal to strip Arab Israeli terrorists of their citizenship in response to Friday’s terror attack in Jerusalem.
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Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman offered an optimistic outlook on Thursday regarding his country’s efforts to forge better ties with its neighbors.
TEL AVIV – The Saudi daily Al-Riyadh published a column on Tuesday urging Arabs to accept that Iran, and not Israel, is the real enemy.
JERUSALEM – A 23-year-old Palestinian man who was shot and killed by Israeli forces during clashes apparently harbored a secret desire to die in order to “marry the 70 virgins in Paradise,” the official Palestinian Authority daily recently reported.
Heritage Foundation Middle East expert Jim Phillips reviewed President Trump’s decision to hold off on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.
TEL AVIV – The Arab world believes President Donald Trump presents a viable opportunity for peace between Israel and the Palestinians which will lead to the normalization between the Jewish state and other countries in the region, Arab lawmakers told MK Hilik Bar (Zionist Union).
TEL AVIV – A leading Arabic newspaper this week published a damning column by a Saudi journalist claiming that Palestinians have missed too many opportunities for peace with Israelis and have always pointed fingers – long before settlements existed, and further adding that it was time for Hamas to end its violence against Israel as well as to end their futile dream of a “Palestine from the river to the sea.”
Israeli security forces faced off against Palestinian rioters Friday in multiple locations throughout the West Bank and along the Gaza border, as hundreds took part in the violent demonstrations.
On Sunday’s edition of CBS News’s 60 Minutes, former FBI agent Ali Soufan revealed that letters captured in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden pointed to a leadership role for his son Hamza.
Last week, a group of pro-Palestinian students disrupted a panel discussion at University of California, Irvine of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) reservists who were fielding questions from students interested in hearing the Israeli perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A top Likud minister on Sunday downplayed the prospects of resuming peace talks with the Palestinians, ahead of an anticipated peace push during US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel later this month.
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration should formally recognize the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory, especially in light of the ongoing war in Syria, Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Israel is waging war against the Muslim world with drugs and “sex mania,” a leading Islamic cleric appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a TV sermon this week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday morning, Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Bill Johnson (R-OH) helped launch the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus (CIVC), which was spearheaded by the Middle East Forum, with the goal of introducing of reshaping of the U.S. discourse surrounding Israel-Palestinian relations and the peace process.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not meet with Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday after a spat over Sigmar Gabriel’s planned meetings with leftwing groups critical of the IDF.
At least 86 Palestinian prisoners said Saturday they were ending their hunger strike, the Israel Prisons Service said. They joined some 100 other prisoners who ended their strike on Friday.
In an interview with Fox News, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed peace prospects with the Palestinians, saying, “I think the first test of peace is to say to them, ‘Hey, you want peace? Prove it. Confront terrorism, stop rewarding terrorism, stop paying terrorists.”
TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian official slammed the White House Saturday for being full of “settlers,” Hebrew-language media reported. “We used to say there were settlers in the Israeli coalition borne of the far right that detests Palestinians, Arabs
Two Palestinian men convicted in Israel of murdering a US citizen who was hiking near an Israeli archaeological site could face charges in the United States if they are ever released from an Israeli prison.
TEL AVIV — Pro-Hamas Palestinians have taken to social media to fail the move by Hamas to hang three Palestinians last week who were allegedly convicted for collaborating with Israel.
Israel will impose a closure of the West Bank for the entire week of Passover, from Monday until Monday April 17. Passage will only be allowed for medical, humanitarian and other exceptional cases.
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On Thursday, the Times of Israel reported that the leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority would separately meet with President Donald Trump at the White House in April.
TEL AVIV – The IDF shut down three illegal workshops reportedly manufacturing guns near the West Bank town of Hebron Wednesday morning, the army said.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s moral claim to the land comes from the Bible, not Google, an Israeli minister said in Washington on Tuesday at an event marking 50 years since the 1967 Six Day War.