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Court Resuscitates Palestinians’ Genocide Case Against Adelson in US

Court Resuscitates Palestinians’ Genocide Case Against Adelson in US

The $34.5 billion case was previously dismissed by the lower US district court for the District of Columbia.   A US court of appeals has… Read More ›

Palestinian president rejects tax money from Israel

Palestinian president rejects tax money from Israel

Mahmoud Abbas says funds collected by Israel on behalf of PA no longer accepted after government passes law meant to deduct 5 percent of that… Read More ›

Extremist Otzma Yehudit announces unity pact with Jewish Home

Extremist Otzma Yehudit announces unity pact with Jewish Home

With limited bargaining chips, far-right faction, composed of disciples of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, agrees to slots 5 and 8 on national religious party’s… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s only fear is Gantz

Netanyahu’s only fear is Gantz

Opinion: With the threat of an indictment hanging over his head, Netanyahu is falling back on what worked in 1996: portraying the only one he… Read More ›

Qatar warns Hamas it won’t pay for Gaza electricity beyond April — report

Qatar warns Hamas it won’t pay for Gaza electricity beyond April — report

Doha said frustrated by lack of progress on various infrastructure projects in Strip, particularly stalled plans for a high-voltage power line from Israel   Qatar’s… Read More ›

Abbas’ Spokesman: Israel Withholding Funds Will Have Consequences

Abbas’ Spokesman: Israel Withholding Funds Will Have Consequences

“We are a people under occupation, which is the ugliest form of terrorism,” Hussein al-Sheikh added. “We have the right to liberty and independence.”  … Read More ›

Warsaw Summit winners and losers

Warsaw Summit winners and losers

Opinion: The Warsaw Summit was a mostly failed attempt by the United States to form a broad international coalition to support the Trump administration’s Middle… Read More ›

PA fumes over Israeli ‘piracy’ after decision to deduct terror money

PA fumes over Israeli ‘piracy’ after decision to deduct terror money

Abbas’s spokesman says attempts to harm livelihood of ‘imprisoned heroes’ won’t be accepted, warns of repercussions against Israel   A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President… Read More ›

Warsaw to Attend Visegrad Summit as Crisis Dies Down

Warsaw to Attend Visegrad Summit as Crisis Dies Down

Netanyahu’s remarks on Polish role in Shoah clarified   Israel plans to host its first-ever Visegrad summit in a move designed to highlight the country’s… Read More ›

Is Lebanon next geopolitical battleground between US and Russia?

Is Lebanon next geopolitical battleground between US and Russia?

Analysis: What happens when Moscow decides to expand its reach in the Middle East via Beirut? The Kremlin may have offered Syria’s Assad a lifeline… Read More ›

Settlement fires school’s Israeli Arab cleaning staff after threats from parents

Settlement fires school’s Israeli Arab cleaning staff after threats from parents

Rights groups warn of legal action after Karnei Shomron succumbs to pressure; one parent writes: ‘The lives of our children come first, we are racists… Read More ›

Netanyahu, in Warsaw, Says Poles ‘Cooperated’ with Germans in Holocaust

Netanyahu, in Warsaw, Says Poles ‘Cooperated’ with Germans in Holocaust

Has Netanyahu sparked Israeli-Polish crisis over Jewish deaths in WWII?   Rsaw — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to push back Thursday against a Polish law that… Read More ›

Will grandstanding in Warsaw help or hinder Netanyahu?

Will grandstanding in Warsaw help or hinder Netanyahu?

Opinion: The 1996 Sharm El Sheikh conference was meant to help Shimon Peres keep his PM’s chair and save the peace process. The 2019 conference… Read More ›

Palestinians say Warsaw meet ‘normalizes occupation’

Palestinians say Warsaw meet ‘normalizes occupation’

After PA refused to attend Middle East conference, adviser to Abbas complains US is denying Palestinian right to self-determination by siding with Israel   A… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Israel and Arab States Advancing Common Interest of Combating Iran

Netanyahu: Israel and Arab States Advancing Common Interest of Combating Iran

Israel is working to oust Iran from Syria, Netanyahu said, adding, “we are obligated to do this and we will do this.”   Arab countries… Read More ›

Hezbollah has plans for Israel on the Golan

Hezbollah has plans for Israel on the Golan

Analysis: Israel had better pay attention to the emerging reality on its Syria border in the Golan Heights, where the Lebanese terror group is attempting… Read More ›

IDF warns Hamas likely to spark war in Gaza in bid for international support

IDF warns Hamas likely to spark war in Gaza in bid for international support

Intelligence assesses terror group no longer opposes full-scale conflict, seeing it as a way to bring in reconstruction funds for beleaguered enclave; IDF developing war… Read More ›

Trump Administration Hopes the World’s Focus Will Stay on Iran

Trump Administration Hopes the World’s Focus Will Stay on Iran

Senior adviser Jared Kushner is expected to tease the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.   Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet this week with United States… Read More ›

Union of the Jewish left and the Israeli Arabs

Union of the Jewish left and the Israeli Arabs

Opinion: The Israeli left is in such a dire state that the only thing that could resurrect it is a proactive cooperation between Jewish and… Read More ›

Israel confirms strike in Syrian Golan, further cracking ambiguity policy

Israel confirms strike in Syrian Golan, further cracking ambiguity policy

Before heading to anti-Iran conference in Poland, Netanyahu says IDF is fighting Iranian entrenchment in Syria ‘every day, including yesterday’   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Read More ›