By Israel Today— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed in a frantic attempt on Sunday morning to quickly garner the 61 signatures of Knesset members needed to compel President Reuven Rivlin to give him a second chance (third, if you count this year’s earlier election in April) to form the next government. Both Netanyahu and his…
DetailsBy Alex Traiman, Israel Hayom— While Israel’s government remains in a period of unprecedented paralysis, embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains entrenched in his position, despite being handed a series of criminal indictments that have been followed by calls from political opponents as well as longtime supporters for him to step aside and allow someone…
DetailsBy Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post— Israel is working to stop Iranian belligerence throughout the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday in Lisbon, at the start of his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Lisbon. Netanyahu made the statement hours after Arab news outlets reported an explosion in an Iranian Revolutionary…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels—- The “warmth factor” reflects an all-time high between Israel and the evangelical Christian community. Abundant evidence not only shows in 2018 Christian tourism- its highest at 2.5 million-but also in full display at the third Christian Media Summit. (CMS) Sponsored by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) PM Bibi Netanyahu, President…
DetailsBy Victor Sharpe— Liberals, leftists, socialists and secular folks may not like being told this, but the following are truths that cannot shrivel away. So when did it become an accepted truism that a delusional peace between Israel and the predominately Muslim Arabs, those who call themselves Palestinians, require that Israel give to them it’s…
DetailsBy Gill Hoffman, JPost— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz heard many compromise proposals on Tuesday but none of them brought Israel closer to preventing its third election in under a year, sources close to the two men said. One proposal floated would have allowed Netanyahu to remain prime…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Yair, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted his outrage on Monday about a disturbing double-standard in the public discourse regarding relationships, noting the media storm surrounding his former Christian Zionist girlfriend as compared to the quiet acceptance of Jewish-Muslim matrimony. “Why is it okay that…
DetailsBy Israel Hayom— Israel’s political system came to the brink of a historic crisis on Thursday after Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit announced plans to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges. Thursday morning saw President Reuven Rivlin hand Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein the mandate to form the government – an unprecedented step taken only…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, CarolineGlick.com U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made two brief, basic points in his declaration Monday on Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. He said that those communities are not illegal. And he said that far from facilitating peace, delegitimization of those communities has harmed prospects for peace between Israel and the…
DetailsBy Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— While Palestinian officials repeatedly condemn Israel for violating Palestinians’ freedom of expression, it is actually the Palestinian Authority (PA) that continues to harass, intimidate and detain Palestinians for expressing their opinions on social media or being affiliated with rival political groups. Business as usual. The latest victims of the PA’s…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, CarolineGlick.com— Monday will long be remembered as a turning point in Middle East history. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement Monday that Israeli settlements are not illegal per se is the most significant shift in U.S. Middle East policy in the past generation. Jerusalem’s status as Israel’s capital has been a…
DetailsBy Karen DeYoung, Steve Hendrix and John Hudson, The Washington Post—- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the Trump administration had determined that Israel’s West Bank settlements do not violate international law, a decision he said had “increased the likelihood” of a Middle East peace settlement. Pompeo said the Trump administration, as it…
DetailsBy Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, Ettinger Report— The US position on the future of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be based on US interests in the context of a violent, volcanic, uncontrollable and unpredictable Middle East. On September 18, 1970, the pro-USSR Syrian military invaded Jordan in an attempt to topple the pro-US…
DetailsBy Ken Cohen, Israel Hayom— The Palestinian Authority has been a hotbed of corruption and financial mismanagement since its birth in 1993 under Yasser Arafat. This has been an impediment both to Palestinian self-rule and to peace with Israel. Arafat’s successor, PA President Mahmoud Abbas – now serving the fifteenth year of his four-year term…
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