WATCH: Samantha Power Tries to Walk Back Anti-Israel Position on Jerusalem
Samantha Power, nominated to lead USAID, directly contradicted her position on Jerusalem in 2016, when she and Obama allowed an anti-Israel resolution to pass.
Samantha Power, nominated to lead USAID, directly contradicted her position on Jerusalem in 2016, when she and Obama allowed an anti-Israel resolution to pass.
TEL AVIV – Russia’s envoy to Israel is expected to announce the immediate recognition of Western Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in a meeting with senior Foreign Ministry officials in the coming days, making it the first country in the world to formally legitimize any part of the city as the capital of the Jewish state.
Billionaire media mogul Haim Saban, one of the Democratic Party’s biggest Hollywood donors, says he is “deeply disturbed” by the Obama administration’s recent actions on Israel, including allowing a “biased” resolution to pass in the United Nations Security Council.
The Executive Director of the influential Henry Jackson Society has said the UK government “apparently help[ed] the Obama administration” push an anti-Israel United Nations (UN) resolution, possibly due to an “Arabist bent” in the Foreign Office.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported to have snubbed Theresa May over the UK’s support for an anti-Israel United Nations (UN) resolution attacking Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Days after the UN anti-settlement resolution was passed at the United Nations Security Council, the Jerusalem municipality is set to approve the construction of hundreds of homes in eastern parts of Jerusalem this week.