by Daniel Pipes January 9, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Despite all that’s going on the Middle East – the Iranian nuclear buildup, the violence in Iraq, the shaking of Erdo?an’s rule in Turkey, civil war in Syria, Egypt and Yemen in melt-down mode, Libya unraveling, Tunisia in political crisis – U.S. […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry proposed to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas the “return” of 80, 000 Palestinian “refugees” to Israel, a well-informed Palestinian Authority (PA) official told Chinese news service Xinhua on Monday. The senior official of said on condition of anonymity that Kerry’s proposal on the “return of Palestinian refugees” was part […]
It’s not just Israel that is worried about Hamas terrorism. The Palestinian Authority, itself run by the Fatah terror group, is concerned that Hamas, which controls Gaza, will try to further its influence in PA-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria. A PA report quoted by Israel Radio said that such a development would be bad […]
Republican Senator John McCain, who is currently on a visit to Israel, said on Friday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has “serious, serious concerns” about Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for a framework for peace with the Palestinian Authority. McCain is in Israel along with Republican Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Lindsey Graham […]
A Palestinian Authority (PA) source on Friday told AFP that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas formally rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along the Jordan border. The source further formally stated Abbas’ position of refusing to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. Abbas’ rejection of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposals in Ramallah Thursday […]
A secret US Joint Chiefs of Staff (USJCoS) Memorandum from 1967 has been uncovered by Arutz Sheva analyst Mark Langfan. Langfan says the report proves that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s current proposed security arrangements are a “military security fraud on Israel and the Jews.” Kerry is currently in Israel, pushing his proposals for the Jordan Valley […]
If Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry succeeds in forcing a PA-agreed “peace” plan on Israel, cheered on by the Left, the result will eventually be tragic – for the PA. Once again, Israel’s Left tells us that Israel cannot survive if we refuse to surrender land. They say that Israel and ‘Palestine’ can live […]
Technical experts from Iran, world powers and the UN atomic watchdog will start working out on Monday the nuts and bolts of implementing last month’s landmark nuclear deal, reports AFP. In particular, noted the news agency, the two-day Vienna meeting will seek to nail down the start date of Iran’s promised six-month freeze of parts […]
A senior advisor to the Saudi royal family has accused its Western allies of deceiving the oil rich kingdom in striking the nuclear accord with Iran and said Riyadh would follow an independent foreign policy. Nawaf Obaid told a think tank meeting in London that Saudi Arabia was determined to pursue its own foreign and […]
by Daniel Pipes November 23, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner “For the first time in nearly a decade we have halted parts of Iran’s nuclear program” announced a jubilant Barack Obama after the news of the just-signed Geneva six-month interim agreement with Iran. But the American goal for the accord was that […]
