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Aeronautics Inks $8 Million Deal for Their Orbiter 3 Drone

Aeronautics Inks $8 Million Deal for Their Orbiter 3 Drone

Company had their export license reinstated in February.   Israeli defense company Aeronautics announced a deal worth $8 million to sell their advanced Orbiter 3… Read More ›

Netanyahu says Palestinians determined to continue conflict at all cost

Netanyahu says Palestinians determined to continue conflict at all cost

The prime minister also lashes out at those pushing him to launch a large-scale military operation in the Hamas-controlled enclave in response to incendiary balloon… Read More ›

Israel detains Palestinian Authority’s minister for Jerusalem affairs

Israel detains Palestinian Authority’s minister for Jerusalem affairs

Fadi al-Hadami arrested during early morning raid on his home; TV news reports development related to recent visit to Temple Mount by Chilean President Sebastian… Read More ›

Why Did Netanyahu Suddenly Seek to Cancel the Election He Initiated?

Why Did Netanyahu Suddenly Seek to Cancel the Election He Initiated?

Political Affairs: The election elimination escapade   Circle November 5, 2019, on your calendars. And mark it by doing absolutely nothing. Why November 5? Because… Read More ›

Many sticks, few carrots: Trump’s Palestinian policy

Many sticks, few carrots: Trump’s Palestinian policy

Since taking office on the U.S. president has been consistent in his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adopting Netanyahu’s positions and thereby ending the American… Read More ›

Gantz: Deal to end Gaza arson attacks shows Netanyahu ‘filling Hamas’s balloons’

Gantz: Deal to end Gaza arson attacks shows Netanyahu ‘filling Hamas’s balloons’

Former top defense officials under the PM assail him over the agreement; IDF nabs Gazan carrying knife who crossed the border   Blue and White… Read More ›

Kushner in Bahrain: Criticizing Our Plan Won’t Help Palestinians

Kushner in Bahrain: Criticizing Our Plan Won’t Help Palestinians

“When people criticize, the question I would ask them is what is your idea, what ideas are you putting forward,” he told reporters.   MANAMA,… Read More ›

What we owe to the true victim of the rape case

What we owe to the true victim of the rape case

Opinion: She is just seven years old, but the horrific assault she endured has been distorted, used, manipulated; this is too much to bear for… Read More ›

Late wife’s torment turns Israeli religious farmer into assisted suicide backer

Late wife’s torment turns Israeli religious farmer into assisted suicide backer

After his terminally ill wife had to fly to Switzerland to end her suffering, Yoskeh Marmurstein is challenging a society that resists the burial of… Read More ›

UNRWA Raises $110 Million for Palestinians on Same Day as Bahrain Summit

UNRWA Raises $110 Million for Palestinians on Same Day as Bahrain Summit

UNRWA services 5.4 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, east Jerusalem, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria   The United Nations Relief and Works Agency… Read More ›

IMF chief in Bahrain: Palestinian economic growth must focus on job creation

IMF chief in Bahrain: Palestinian economic growth must focus on job creation

Jared Kushner, chief architect of U.S. policy on Mideast, seeks to persuade Palestinians to accept $50 billion support plan as Gazans and West Bank residents… Read More ›

Opposition seethes as Netanyahu mulls bid to nix September elections

Opposition seethes as Netanyahu mulls bid to nix September elections

Blue and White chief says no talks underway with Likud for unity government; Yisrael Beytenu: ‘What is guiding Netanyahu is not the good of the… Read More ›

Bahrain Workshop to Open amid Low Expectations

Bahrain Workshop to Open amid Low Expectations

Officials from around the world, including Arab states, gather for roll-out of economic chapter of Trump peace plan.   After years of anticipation and preparation,… Read More ›

Trump, Netanyahu and the Iran flipflop

Trump, Netanyahu and the Iran flipflop

Opinion: Israeli leaders have long enjoyed elevated status at the White House, but while the U.S. president basks in the acclaim he received for jettisoning… Read More ›

Analysis: US pushes peace initiative amid doubts, hostility

Analysis: US pushes peace initiative amid doubts, hostility

Palestinians have rejected plan outright and Arab countries are only lukewarm, but experts point out participation of Qatar in normally hostile Bahrain is a positive… Read More ›

Washington – U.S. To Unveil ‘Economy First’ Approach To Mideast Peace At Bahrain Conference Published

Washington – U.S. To Unveil ‘Economy First’ Approach To Mideast Peace At Bahrain Conference Published

  Washington – The first stage of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan will be launched in Bahrain on Tuesday at a conference the… Read More ›

Donald Trump’s dangerous deal

Donald Trump’s dangerous deal

Opinion: By ignoring the core political issues and focusing on the economy, the American president is going down the same failed path that ultimately led… Read More ›

We need the money, but won’t be slaves to Trump peace team, Abbas says

We need the money, but won’t be slaves to Trump peace team, Abbas says

Palestinian leader predicts Bahrain conference will fail, rails at US for leaving out political solution   Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday he was… Read More ›

Jerusalem – WATCH: ‘Being Able To Dig The Bible:’ The Secrets Of Tel Shiloh Revealed

Jerusalem – WATCH: ‘Being Able To Dig The Bible:’ The Secrets Of Tel Shiloh Revealed

Jerusalem – Volunteers from 12 countries converged on Tel Shiloh, Israel’s ancient capital for 369 years, to resume the third season of archeological excavations at… Read More ›

Kushner’s Economic Peace Plan Faces Broad Arab Rejection

Kushner’s Economic Peace Plan Faces Broad Arab Rejection

From Sudan to Kuwait, prominent commentators and ordinary citizens denounced Kushner’s proposals in strikingly similar terms: “colossal waste of time,” “non-starter,” “dead on arrival.”  … Read More ›