Trump’s aides also clarify that no announcement on embassy move is “imminent.” U.S. President Donald Trump is inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Washington in just a few weeks. The offer came during the two leaders’ first phone conversation following Trump’s inauguration – although apparently the headline-topping issue of the U.S. moving its […]
Prominent author and Harvard Professor Emeritus of Law Alan Dershowitz sharply criticized President Barack Obama in an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper on Friday, saying he believes “Obama will join Jimmy Carter as somebody who will always stand against Israel, but who will be tossed into the dustbin of history when it comes to […]
Associated Press The Associated Press wire service supplies news articles to a huge number of media outlets around the world. Corrections are therefore extremely important. The AP’s story “Syria says Israeli strikes hit near airport west of Damascus” included the following: We contacted AP to point out that the text falsely implied that Tel Aviv […]
Prosecutors in the capital of Israel indicted Ziad Awadallah on Monday, charging the eastern Jerusalem taxi driver with repeatedly sexually assaulting a 13-year old girl in his cab. Police caught the driver two weeks ago with the victim, a member of the haredi community, under suspicious circumstances in the French Hill neighborhood. The girl revealed […]
Following the second UNESCO vote to deny the connection between the Jewish people and their holiest sites in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made the decision to recall Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen. This was an unprecedented move that has never been taken against any other UN body before. Netanyahu confirmed the move during […]
We have posted before about how Trump would be dangerous for Israel. Now, Trump makes another anti-Israel move by hiring Paul Manafort as one of his top aides. From The Daily Beast: One of Donald Trump’s top aides once lobbied Congress to kill an effort to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. […]
While the US State Department’s refusal to recognize Jerusalem as being part of the State of Israel is well-known and was even the subject of a US Supreme Court case, it seems that the official US visa information and appointment services website has erased Israel completely. Elder of Ziyon notes that the visa application website is run […]
Ted Cruz | 10:56 a.m. CST December 31, 2015 In August 1979, a Republican candidate for president named Ronald Reagan published an op-ed in the Washington Post titled “Recognizing the Israeli Asset.” The piece examined the Middle East from Reagan’s fundamental perspective on American foreign policy as a “We win, they lose” fight against totalitarian Communism; […]
They looked like any other Arab schoolgirls, and clearly didn’t attract the suspicion of any passersby. But the two girls in the video above – caught on CCTV cameras in central Jerusalem – went on just moments later to carry out a stabbing attack next to the Mahane Yehuda Market. The girls stabbed a 70-year-old […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. In a televised speech last night, Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of carrying out “field executions,” and trying to change the status quo on the Temple Mount. And, notably, Abbas didn’t condemn the violence or make any appeals for calm. But the Palestinian leader got egg on his face for claiming that a […]
