Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

For new US embassy, “State Department has settled on plan to convert an existing consular building in West Jerusalem”

NEW YORK TIMES U.S. Presses to Relocate Embassy to Jerusalem by 2019 by Mark Landler January 18, 2018 The Trump administration is moving faster than expected to transfer the American Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv by 2019, senior officials … Continue reading

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Classified State Department report could bust myth that millions of refugees need UNRWA

FREE BEACON State Department Hiding ‘Game Changer’ Report on Myth of Palestinian Refugees by Adam Kredo January 18, 2018 The State Department is hiding a classified report on Palestinian refugees that insiders say could be a game changer in how the … Continue reading

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“What’s happening in Newton is an outrage against all Jews, yet Jewish organizations condone and perpetuate”

ALGEMEINER Newton School Retaliates Against Students and Staff Who Report Antisemitism by Evan Jacobi January 15, 2018 Many Algemeiner readers are aware that students in Newton, Massachusetts, Public Schools (NPS) — as well as other US high schools — use anti-Israel … Continue reading

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“The great taboo for the Arab and Muslim world is still that of cultural exchanges with the hated “Zionists””

GATESTONE Arab Regimes Terrified by Israel’s Freedoms by Giulio Meotti January 16, 2018 …A prominent Tunisian-born French movie producer, Saïd Ben Saïd, after being forced to pull out of North Africa’s most prestigious film festival, recently issued one of the frankest … Continue reading

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Abbas called Israel a “colonialist project that has nothing to do with Jews”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Abbas’s speech is a grenade in the Israeli right’s lap by Avi Issacharoff January 16, 2018 After nine years of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling us there is “no partner,” we finally received proof that the “magician … Continue reading

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“Desperately ill boy from Gaza receives his brother’s kidney in lifesaving surgery at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center”

ISRAEL 21C Gazan teenager saved by kidney transplant in Israel by Rebecca Stadlen Amir January 11, 2018 A 13-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip received a lifesaving kidney donation from his brother, an undergraduate student in Algeria, in an operation … Continue reading

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“Trump to pick David Schenker, former Rumsfeld adviser and director of pro-Israel think tank to serve as top US diplomat to the Middle East”

ARUTZ SHEVA Report: Trump to tap pro-Israel Rumsfeld adviser to State Dept by David Rosenberg January 11, 2018 President Donald Trump is expected to tap an adviser to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for a key State Department position, a … Continue reading

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Trump admin announces UNRWA funding cuts

DAILY WIRE Trump’s Decision To Cut UNRWA Funding Is The First Step Toward Middle East Peace by Jonathan Greenberg January 17, 2018 The United States has taken the welcome step of cutting half of our planned $125 million in funding … Continue reading

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“Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama’s legacy”

NATIONAL REVIEW President Nobama by Victor Davis Hanson January 16, 2018 …To many progressives and indeed elites of all persuasions, Trump is also the Prince of Anti-culture: mindlessly naïve American boosterism; conspicuous, 1950s-style unapologetic consumption; repetitive and limited vocabulary; fast-food … Continue reading

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Palestinians protest arrest of #AhedTamimi AKA “Shirley Temper” [VIDEO] #Pallywood

TIMES OF ISRAEL Palestinians clash with Israeli troops at rally for soldier-slapping teen by Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid January 13, 2018 Hundreds of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli troops on Saturday near the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, … Continue reading

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